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The royal favourite, her father Henri - the most famous courtesan in Paris, her mother Marion Delorme. A scandalous liaison that inspires poets and playwrights for centuries to come and produces a child destined to read the stars of kings - Bijoux Cinq-Mars. |  |
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Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin. The former makes love to the mother and murders the father ~ the latter puts their daughter in a king's bed and pays her well to be a royal spy. |
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| A child born of infamy is mistress to both Bourbon princes, and loves each passionately, yet only one offers to make the woman sired from his father's lover's loins a queen. |
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In the salons he is called The Future. His given name is Fouquet and he is destined to amass the greatest fortune in Europe - until a red-headed woman of intrigue threatens to ruin the financier's plans for dominance and control of the war-torn kingdom of France. |
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The learned ladies: Lisette, Françoise, Susanne. Their reputations for beauty, honesty and cunning will only be eclipsed by their spectacular, intertwined fates. |  |
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Armand, Comte de Guiche, counts both King Louis' brother and sister-in-law his conquests. Yet, when the beautiful astrologer, Marquise de Cinq-Mars, rejects his advances, the wayward noble turns to blood ritual and a mysterious man named Noctambule to secure that lady's charms. |
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He is the garden architect to kings, famed throughout Europe for his skill with hoe and spade - yet, does André Le Nôtre possess the solution to the Secret of the Ages, passed on to him by the esoteric French painter, Nicolas Poussin? |  |
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Who is the Man in the Iron Mask? Is he indeed the noble leader of a secret society known only as the Company, sworn to dispose all Bourbon kings? The answer to this mystery is at long last revealed. |
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When he saves an orphaned girl from the evil Abbé Guibourg, the courageous Musketeer D'Artagnan has no idea of the adventure upon which the two are about to embark...an adventure that will take them both from the slums of Paris to the grandest palaces in the world, back to a prison known as the Bastille. |  |
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