Bussy-Périgord, mignon du roi

Jean-Yves Epailly

In this historical novel, Charles de Bussy-Périgord, a young knight haunted by agonizing dreams, leaves his native province and goes to Paris to find and punish the man who killed his father. The chances of this quest bring him to rub shoulders and integrate very quickly into the privileged circle of the famous minion of Alexander Henry, Duke of Anjou, Catherine de Medicis's favorite son. He became an inseparable friend and adviser of the future King Henry III, while pursuing his revenge. Charles accompanies, even precedes, the young monarch in his romantic and political adventures.