I’m reading the Accursed Kings series of historical novels (Les Rois Maudits in your actual French) by Maurice Druon, an immensely enjoyable telling of French and English royalty (and Aquitanian, Burgundian, etc.) in the early 1300s, with adultery, murder, poisoning, revolution, blackmail, executions, forgery, Templars, witches, babies swapped at birth, an escape from the Tower of London, the Avignon Papacy, Lombard bankers, the Queen of England (sister to the King of France) invading England from France with her lover and her son to take the throne from her husband, and more. The books are rich with memorable quotes. Here’s one from the fifth, The She-Wolf of France (translated by Humphrey Hare): You can think what you like of your friends, provided you don’t tell them. And from the sixth, The Lily and the Lion: Stupidity is no bar to enterprise; on the contrary, it tends to conceal difficulties which an intelligent man would consider insuperable.
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