Mature years of King Henry IV

The dilogy of the German writer Henry Mann about the French king Henry IV is deservedly considered a masterpiece of historical prose, comparable to the best novels of Alexander Dumas and Henryr Senkevich. Time and place of action: Europe, the sixteenth century, one of the most bloody and gloomy: civil wars, religious fanaticism, Bartholomew’s night, a deadly struggle for power ... Europe needed a ruler who could not only extinguish the flame of war, establishing a long -awaited world, but also change the whole The course of history, pushing peoples into the bottomless abyss of death. Such a ruler was King Henry IV from the Bourbon dynasty. Many writers turned to the life of this great monarch, from Voltaire to Alexander Dumas, but it was Henry Mann that belongs to the most fascinating, historically true and detailed biography of one of the most popular kings of France.
The second part of the dilogy about Henry IV came into the present edition, from which the reader learns about the future fate of the king, about his desire to restore order in France devastated by wars, as well as about all kinds of palace intrigues and various love ties between Henry IV, almost costing His life