The Royal Succession

Mорис Дрюон’s reading public knows him primarily for the saga “The Accursed Kings,” which revealed the dark secrets of the Middle Ages. Behind each work in the cycle stood painstaking work in the National Archives, studying documents written in archaic French or Latin. “Poison and the Crown” continues this series of historical frescoes, begun with the novels “The Iron King” and “The Prisoner of Château-Gaillard.”

…Half a year has passed since the death of Philip the Fair. During his reign France was a great power. But the son of the Iron King, Louis X— a weak and inept monarch— and already

rebellious barons sow unrest in the provinces, officials steal the state treasury.

The country is starving.

Though perhaps it’s only the fulfillment of the curse of the Grand Master of the Knights Templar…

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