Robert Neilson Stephens

An Enemy to the King Robert Neilson Stephens

An historical romance describing the 16th Century adventures of a young French nobleman at the court of Henry III and on the field of battle with Henry IV. Subtitled 'from the recently discovered memoirs of Sieur de la Toirnoire, a dashing young Huguenot aristocratic goes to Paris to find adventure and romance, joins King Henry III's guard, is duped into killing an ally of the Duke de Guise and flees south to find refuge with Henry of Navarre, the Protestant heir to the throne. This era of French history is obscenely rich in intrigue, with the three very different son's of Catherine de Medici competing for the throne, alongside the Catholic alternative de Guise and the aforementioned Henry of Navarre.