Druon, Maurice,

The strangled queen / Maurice Druon ; translated from the French by Humphrey Hare. - London : HarperCollins, 2013, c1956. - xxi, 280 p. ; 20 cm. - Accursed kings ; bk. 2 .

Translation of: La reine étranglée. First published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956. Originally published: London : Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956.

The puny, self-impotent Louis X, having caused his first wife to be murdered and his mistress exiled, becomes besotted with the lovely Clemence, his new Queen. Vacillating between self-pity and vainglory he is caught between the vaulting ambitions of proud, profligate barons...


Translated from the French.

ISBN: 0007491271 (hbk.) 0007491271 (hbk) 9780007491285 (trade pbk.)

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016229015

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Royal houses
Inheritance and succession

Dewey Class. No.: 843.92