Alexandre Dumas

The classic tale of royal conspiracy and forbidden romance during the sixteenth-century French Wars of Religion by the author of The Three Musketeers . Paris, 1572. For a decade, French Catholics and Protestant Huguenots have been locked in a violent struggle for control of France. Though King Charles IX reigns, it is his mother, Catherine de...

All For One, One For All! When daring young swordsman d’Artagnan travels to Paris seeking honor and fortune in the king’s Guard, he quickly befriends the famed three Musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Loyal servants to the crown, the four friends cross swords with street criminals, face the cardinal’s Guards—who seek to destroy them—in duels...

This text was taken from ‘Celebrated Crimes’, a series of essays on famous criminals and crimes by the author of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ and ‘The Three Musketeers’, Alexandre Dumas.Ali Pasha Tepeleni was the ruler of the western part of Rumelia (the southern Balkan region of the Ottoman Empire from 1809 to 1822.

Le 7 du mois de mai, que les Grecs appellent thargélion, l'an 57 du Christ et 810 de la fondation de Rome, une jeune fille de quinze à seize ans, grande, belle et rapide comme la Diane chasseresse, sortait de Corinthe par la porte occidentale, et descendait vers la plage : arrivée à une petite prairie, bordée d'un côté par un bois...

Part of the series Celebrated Crimes in Eight Volumes.

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