Maurice Druon quotes

I’m reading the Accursed Kings series of historical novels ( Les Rois Maudits in your actual French) by Maurice Druon , an immensely enjoyable telling of French and English royalty (and Aquitanian, Burgundian, etc.) in the early 1300s, with adultery , murder, poisoning, revolution, blackmail, executions, forgery, Templars, witches, babies swapped at birth, an escape from the Tower of London, the…