Quentin Dorward

Roman "Quentin Dorvard", created on the basis of the genuine memoirs of the French diplomat Philip de Command and first published two hundred years ago, is not just one of the most famous historical novels in the world, but also one of the few historically reliable works in the genre of Cloak and Swords" . Immediately after the publication in 1823, the novel was translated into all the main European languages ​​and became, in modern language, the world bestseller.
1468. A long -standing confrontation between Burgundy and France has reached its climax. At the head of Burgundy is the idol and ideal of knights all of Europe Karl Smey, on the throne of France - the brilliant politician Louis XI.
trying at all costs to weaken the enemy, an extremely illegible in the means of the French king secretly incites to the free cities of the rebellious merchant Flanders and provides a refuge of Karl who fled from an unwanted political marriage - a noble Burgundy beauty Isabella de Cruise, planning to use it in a thin political intrigue. But a pure, naive-blessed and fearless young man suddenly interferes with the cynical palace game-the poor small Scottish nobleman Quentin Dorvard, who entered the Scottish mercenary guard service