Fateful events are in motion in medieval France of the late 1580s -- events that will lead to the War of the Three Henries -- and, eventually, to the ascension

The death of the Prince of Conde, which occurred in the spring of 1588, by depriving me of my only patron, reduced me to such straits that the winter of that ye

WE are not surprised to learn that Mr. Stanley Weyman's brilliant historical romance, A Gentleman of France, although only published, so to speak, the other day