Siege of Montauban

Line winter 1621 goals. The French king Louis XIII, being warm and comfortable, leads the siege of the city of Montauban fortress, one of the main Ollots of Huguenots. The fortress does not give up. The king is nervous. His favorite, Connyabl de Luiin, is nervous even more and slowly loses authority. But his rival, the thirty-year-old strategist-diplomat Bishop of Losonsky, is gaining authority. He acts on the principle of "not by force so cunning" and will soon go down in history under the Terrible name - Cardinal Richelieu.
French writer Jules Koven (1829-1879), a worthy heir to Shakespeare"s traditions, Hugo and Dumas, created an exciting story of love, betrayal and revenge, unfolding against the background of the eternal game with the throne between the brother of the king trying to move the key figures, and the minister King - master of chessboard