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The Forty-five guards were recruited by the Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, Duke of ?pernon to provide Henry III of France with trusted protection in the midst of the War of the Three Henrys.The Forty-five were noblemen of lesser nobility (many from Gascony) with little... Read Full Overview

The House of Valois Romances. The Valois were the royal house of France from 1328 to 1589, therefore, many of Dumas romances cover their Reign. Traditionally, the so called "Valois Romances" are the three that portrait the Reign of Queen Marguerite, the last of the Valois (Marguerite... Read Full Overview

Excerpt from The Forty-Five Guardsmen

The Forty-Five Guardsmen is the third and final book in the Valois Trilogy, following La Reine Margot and La Dame de Monsoreau. Set during the turbulent French Wars of Religion in 16th-century France, the novel focuses on the political and religious intrigues of the time... Read Full Overview

The Forty-Five is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1926. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We... Read Full Overview

Les quarante-cinq by Alexandre Dumas. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1860 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.