THE IRON
KING
Book One of The Accursed Kings
Maurice Druon
Translated from French by
Humphrey Hare
HarperCollinsPublishers
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First published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis 1956
Century edition 1985
Arrow edition 1987
Published by HarperVoyager
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
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Copyright © Maurice Druon 1955
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Source ISBN: 9780007491254
Ebook Edition © 2013 ISBN: 9780007492213
Version: 2016-10-14
‘History is a novel that has been lived’
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Contents
2. The Prisoners in the Temple
4. At the Great Door of Notre-Dame
5. Marguerite of Burgundy, Queen of Navarre
6. What Happened at the King’s Council
8. ‘I summon to the Tribunal of Heaven …’
Part Two: The Adulterous Princesses
2. The Tribunal of the Shadows