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Автор: Морис Дрюон
Издательство: HarperCollins
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Жанр произведения: Историческая литература
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isbn: 9780008159443
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       Copyright

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2015

      Copyright © Maurice Druon 1977

      This translation copyright © Andrew Simpkin 2014

      First published in French as Quand un Roi perd la France

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      Jacket digital illustration © Patrick Knowles

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      Maurice Druon asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007491377

      Ebook Edition © January 2015 ISBN: 9780008159443

      Version: 2016-03-01

       Epigraph

      ‘Our longest war, the Hundred Years War, was merely a legal debate, interspersed with occasional bouts of armed warfare’

      PAUL CLAUDEL

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       9. The Bad in Avignon

       10. The Annus Horribilis

       11. The Kingdom Cracks

       Part Two: The Banquet of Rouen

       1. Exemptions and Benefits

       2. The Anger of the King

       3. To Rouen

       4. The Banquet

       5. The Arrest

       6. The Preparations

       7. The Field of Forgiveness

       Part Three: The Lost Spring

       1. The Hound and the Fox Cub

       2. The Nation of England

       3. The Pope and the World

       Part Four: The Summer of Disaster

       1. The Norman Chevauchée

       2. The Siege of Breteuil

       3. The Homage of Phoebus

       4. The Camp of Chartres