Le comte de Moret

By Alexandre Dumas

Subjects: Cardinals, Translations into English, Anne, Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1666 -- Fiction, Moret, Antoine de Bourbon, comte de, 1607-1632 -- Fiction, Swordsmen -- Fiction, Fiction, historical, Swordsmen, France -- History -- Louis XIII, 1610-1643 -- Fiction, Fiction, Courts and courtiers -- Fiction, Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643 -- Fiction, Courts and courtiers, Cardinals -- Fiction, History, Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 -- Translations into English, France, fiction, Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642 -- Fiction

Description: Red Sphinx picks up right where the The Three Musketeers left off, continuing the stories of Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, and King Louis XIII and introducing a charming new hero, the Comte de Moret, a real historical figure from the period. A young cavalier newly arrived in Paris, Moret is an illegitimate son of the former king, and thus half-brother to King Louis. The French Court seethes with intrigue as king, queen, and cardinal all vie for power, and young Moret soon finds himself up to his handsome neck in conspiracy, danger, and passionate romance. Dumas wrote seventy-five chapters of The Red Sphinx, all for serial publication, but he never quite finished it, and so the novel languished for almost a century before its first book publication in France in 1946. While Dumas never completed the book, he had earlier written a separate novella, The Dove, that recounted the final adventures of Moret and Cardinal Richelieu. Now for the first time, in one cohesive narrative, The Red Sphinx and The Dove make a complete and satisfying storyline, a rip-roaring novel of historical adventure.