![]() King John is actually in captivity to the English, and the cardinal’s story is about how this situation came to be. The Cardinal is a sharp old man with many a sarcastic observation to make to his audience, his nephew. The entire novel is written as a monologue by the Cardinal of Périgord, who tells the tale as he travels to try to mediate peace between King John and Edward, Prince of England. But Druon still had one more tale of incompetent royalty to tell, that of King John II, the third Valois king. I read the first six, which told of the destruction of the Capet dynasty and ended with the death of Robert of Artois, a prime mover of events. When I first read Maurice Druon’s The Accursed Kings series, I didn’t even know there were seven books. ![]()
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