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The life of an heiress is in jeopardy and her only hope is to place her trust in the wiles of a middle-aged swordsman with no use for "women's troubles." As the plots of the conspirators converge it will take all the wiles and accumulated wisdom of Martin Marie Rigobert de Garnache uncover their identity, to save Valerie de La Vauvraye and keep his promise to his Queen. "Saint Martin's summer" refers to a period of fine weather unexpectedly late in the year, and the title of this work alludes to the advanced age ("close upon forty years") at which the hero finds romance. This is the most broadly comedic of all of Sabatini's novel-length works, and is surely an homage to Alexandre Dumas. Martin Marie Rigobert de Garnache, "astute and wily as a fox, brave as a lion, and active as a panther," is first cousin to D'Artagnan in his devotion to duty and resourcefulness in carrying out his assigned tasks. Unlike D'Artagnan, he finds serving his Queen (in this case, the queen-regent, Marie de Medicis) trying to his warlike spirit. It is a particular trial to M. de Garnache to find himself ordered to leave the comforts of Paris behind and ride to Grenoble, with only his servant Rabecque in tow, to release the heiress, Valerie de La Vauvraye, from the Chateau de Condillac and the influence of the dowager marquise, who intends that Valerie should marry her own son, Marius, rather than her stepson, the present—and absent—marquis, off taking part in the Italian wars.
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My Lord of Tressan, His Majesty's Seneschal of Dauphiny, sat at his ease, his purple doublet all undone, to yield greater freedom to his vast bulk, a yellow silken undergarment visible through the gap, as is visible the flesh of some fruit that, swollen with over-ripeness, has burst its skin. His wig—imposed upon him by necessity, not fashion lay on the table amid a confusion of dusty papers, and on his little fat nose, round and red as a cherry at its end, rested the bridge of his horn-rimmed spectacles. His bald head—so bald and shining that it conveyed an unpleasant sense of nakedness, suggesting that its uncovering had been an act of indelicacy on the owner's part—rested on the back of his great chair, and hid from sight the gaudy escutcheon wrought upon the crimson leather. His eyes were closed, his mouth open, and whether from that mouth or from his nose—or, perhaps, conflicting for issue between both—there came a snorting, rumbling sound to proclaim that my Lord the Seneschal was hard at work upon the King's business.
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- ÉditeurEcho Library
- Date d'édition2006
- ISBN 10 1406804762
- ISBN 13 9781406804768
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages184
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