The works of French novelist Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829–1871) achieved noisy success across many countries—competing in popularity and print runs with the books of the classic of the entertaining genre, Alexandre Dumas. The novel “The Love Adventures of the Club-Valet” is devoted to the events preceding the famous St. Bartholomew’s Night. Conspiracies, duels, romantic intrigues, kidnappings of heroines, and other exciting adventures—everything this reader will find on the pages of the novel.