Forty five

Autumn 1585. Henry III, nicknamed the “vile Herod ", feels that the ring of power squeezes it more and more. In Paris, open to all winds, begins to noticeably cold. Three crows, three black princes - threatened, silent and duplicate - start a terrible swara in the north. The Bearian cockerel, the glorious king of Henrio, grinning, spurred the south. It seems that the autumn wind can disrupt not only the gilding in royal parks and alleys, but also blow, like candles, the latter of the family de Valois.
The new volume of the illustrated collected works of Alexander Dumas includes a classic cloak romance and swords "forty -five" - another mutual masterpiece, penetrated by the high drama of Shakespeare and carnival humor Rabelais