This book contains the first volume of Alexandre Dumas s 1891 novel, "The page of the Duke of Savoy." It is the fictionalised tale a woman who is forced to impersonate a man in order to remain by the side of her beloved Duke. A tense marriage of mystery and romance, this masterful story will appeal to lovers of historical fiction, and constitutes a must-read for anyone who has read and enjoyed Dumas s work. Alexandre Dumas (1802 1870) was a famous French writer. He is best remembered for his exciting romantic sagas, including "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo." Despite...

"ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE " D'Artagnan and his three pals follow a course of swashbuckling intrigue and adventure in 17th-centry France. The Three Musketeers is a tale for all time. Heroic young d'Artagnan and his noble compatriots, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis versus Cardinal Richelieu, and the wicked woman, Lady de Winter.

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Frankreich wahrend des Hundertjahrigen Krieges: das Land ist kurz davor, sich den Englandern zu unterwerfen, doch eine alte Prophezeiung besagt, dass eine Jungfrau aus dem Volk Frankreich retten wird. Johanna, die Tochter eines einfachen Bauern, gerade einmal dreizehn Jahre alt und in den Wirren des Krieges aufgewachsen, vernimmt zum ersten Mal die Stimmen der heiligen Katharina, der heiligen Margarethe und des Erzengels Michael. Die Stimmen kunden von einem gottlichen Auftrag, dessen Erfullung das einfache Madchen vom Lande zur Retterin Frankreichs und spater dessen Nationalheldin machen...

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ine; our historians, M zeray, Chateaubriand, A. Thierry; our scientific men, Cuvier, Beudant, Elias de Beaumont; lastly, some volumes of novels, amongst which I discovered, with a certain pride, my Impressions de Voyage. The keys were left on the drawers of the writing desk; I opened one of them. It contained some manuscripts, fragments of a history of Corsica, a sketch on the means of abolishing the custom of the vendetta, some French verses, and a few Italian sonnets. This was all I wanted, and I had the presumption to think that I needed nothing more to form a correct opinion of Mons....

break your head Do you understand?" "Be easy, captain," answered Durand, "it is not a customer like you whom I would deceive." "All right; I have eaten nothing for twelve hours. Arrange accordingly." The hotel-keeper bowed, as knowing what that meant, and went back to his kitchen, beginning to think that he had made a worse bargain than he had hoped. As to the captain, after having made a last sign of recognition, half amicable, half threatening, he quickened his pace, and rejoined the chevalier and the baron, who had stopped to wait for him. The chevalier was not wrong as to the situation...