| Cinq Mars by Alfred de Vigny, Fiction, Classics, Literary Contributor(s): De Vigny, Alfred (Author), de Mazade, Charles (Preface by), Boissier, Gaston (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1606649698 ISBN-13: 9781606649695 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: CROWNED BY THE FRENCH ACADEMY Fair Touraine, lovely in the fullness of summer . . . yet all is not so placid and peaceful as the slow-flowing River Loire -- for young Henri, Marquis de Cing-Mars, and his friend De Thou are undertaking one of the most daring exploits of the seventeenth century -- a conspiracy against Cardinal Richelieu! The first romantic novel of France, "Cinq-Mars, ou Une Conjuration sous Louis XIII," was written by Alfred-Victor, Count de Vigny, under the spell of Sir Walter Scott's adventure-filled historical romances. Himself once a member of the Mousquetaires Rouges, Vigny filled his majestic novel of 1826 with ringing authenticity and lavish historical detail. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.33 lbs) 316 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): de Mazade, Charles: - "Louis Charles Jean Robert de Mazade (1820 - 1893) was a French historian, journalist and political editor of Revue des deux mondes. He was the third member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1882."Boissier, Gaston: - "Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston Boissier (1823 - 1908), French classical scholar and secretary of the Académie française, was born at Nîmes. The Roman monuments of his native town very early attracted Gaston Boissier to the study of ancient history. He made epigraphy his particular theme and at the age of twenty-three became a professor of rhetoric at the University of Angoulême, where he lived and worked for ten years without further ambition. A travelling inspector of the university, however, happened to hear him lecture and Boissier was called to Paris to be professor at the Lycée Charlemagne." |