Opis: The Fortunate Lovers - Marguerite Queen

Excerpt from The Fortunate Lovers: Twenty-Seven Novels of the Queen of Navarre

The bride was seventeen years old, tall, of a slender carriage, and there were enthusiasts who avowed that she was beautiful, so highly did they rate that air of humility blended with innate distinction, those thick blonde tresses, and the smile of pathetic radiance that lit the large features and the small expressive eyes. A less indulgent critic would deny the gift of beauty to Margaret of Angouleme; but she was at least a young girl upon her wedding day. There were, however, so many royal personages at the wedding, that half the lookers-on forgot the bride.

Behind Madame Marguerite and her bridegroom, the dull and rustic young Duke of Alencon, stood a childish pair, themselves contracted in the bonds of marriage. The wife was the only child of the King and Queen of France, a plain and delicate girl of ten years old; the husband looked a dark vivacious lad of fifteen, eager and chivalrous, as became a descendant of Saint Louis, who numbered among his nearer ancestry Louis of Orleans and Philip of Burgundy, the wise Duke of Milan, the "Green Count" of Savoy, the fantastic Pope Felix V., and the romantic Kings of Cyprus.

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Nazwa: The Fortunate Lovers Twenty-Seven Novels of the Queen of Navarre (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Marguerite Queen
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330649978
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 332
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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