My Sword�s My Fortune:A Story of Old France
A Story of Old France
9781465529312
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Library of Alexandria
Overview
I Go to Paris. Let the boy go to Paris, exclaimed our guest, Roland Belloc. I warrant he'll find a path that will lead him to fortune. He is young, said my father doubtfully. He will be killed, cried my mother, while I stood upright against the wall and looked at Roland gratefully. It was in 1650, in the days of the Regency, and all France was in an uproar. Our most gracious monarch, Louis XIV., was then a boy of twelve, and his Queen-Mother, Anne of Austria, ruled the country. She had a host of enemies, and only one friend, Cardinal Mazarin, a wily Italian priest, who was perhaps the actual master of France
