Chicot the Jester: A Sword-and-Cloak Tale of Valois Court Intrigue, Political Conspiracy, and Sixteenth-Century Paris - Couverture souple

Dumas, Alexandre

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8028524605 ISBN 13 : 9788028524609

Editeur : Copycat, 2026

Synopsis

Set amid the violent intrigues of late sixteenth-century France, Alexandre Dumas's Chicot the Jester fuses historical chronicle with swashbuckling romance. Centered on the shrewd and irreverent court fool Chicot, the novel moves through the reign of Henri III, the rivalries of the Valois court, and the factional tensions that shadow the Wars of Religion. Dumas's style is characteristically expansive, dramatic, and rapid in movement, balancing political conspiracy, wit, and theatrical dialogue. As part of his Valois cycle, the book transforms archival history into vivid popular narrative without losing the gravity of its historical moment. Dumas, one of nineteenth-century France's great architects of the historical novel, brought to his fiction both prodigious narrative energy and a deep fascination with national history. Writing in the wake of Romanticism, he was drawn to periods of dynastic crisis, moral ambiguity, and heroic action. His gift lay in animating the past through memorable personalities rather than abstract historical forces; in Chicot, this impulse finds a perfect vehicle in a figure whose comic exterior conceals political intelligence and humane skepticism. This novel is especially recommended to readers who enjoy history rendered as living drama. Chicot the Jester offers not only suspense and adventure, but also a penetrating portrait of power, performance, and survival in a fractured kingdom.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Copycat
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8028524605
• ISBN 13: 9788028524609
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible