Confronts him on the murder of her husband, rebels against him, leads a group of Huguenots to the New World. Yet she rises up from the gutters back to the glittering court of Louis XIV. After he is burned at the stake for heresy (and for being too politically powerful), Angélique finds herself homeless, penniless, with babies to protect in the underworld of Paris. In subsequent volumes, they will take you through most of the world of Louis XIV. Joffrey becomes the love of Angélique’s life. He is 12 years her senior, lame, scarred and rumored to be a wizard.Īngélique’s life and adventures inspired me and gave me courage. At 17, when she returns from the convent where she has been getting an education, she finds herself betrothed to the wealthy count of Toulouse, Joffrey de Peyrac. Her logical destiny would be to marry a poor country nobleman, have children and spend her life fighting for a meager subsistence.ĭestiny has other plans in store for her.
She is a free child, as one with the forest and the marshes, discovering nature’s healing secrets with the help of the witch Mélusine. Sometimes, a lot, occasionally almost catching up with my peers. But back then … I was downright weird.įifth child of an impoverished country nobleman, Angélique de Sancé grows up in the Poitou marshlands, a region known as the “Green Venice”, halfway between the ocean and the forests.
The first book was published in 1957 and I read it in 1960. I still have the book, though the binding is broken and the pages are beginning to turn to dust. Nothing will change the way I feel about these books. I have been told by many people who’ve read the series in French, that much was lost in a not-very-good translation. With these words, one of the world’s greatest series of historical fiction begins. “Nounou,” inquired Angelique, “Why did Giles de Retz kill so many children?” Home › Book Review › ANGELIQUE – UNDAUNTED AFTER ALL THESE YEARSĪNGELIQUE – UNDAUNTED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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