The Regent’s Daughter
Set during the turbulent Regency that followed the death of Louis XIV, this historical adventure weaves conspiracy, romance, and swordplay around a plot against the regent of France and the young heroine caught up in it. Dumas brings his incomparable gift for intrigue, dashing heroes, and headlong action to a story of loyalty, love, and political danger in eighteenth-century France. Rich in historical color and dramatic incident, it delivers the rousing entertainment that made him the master of the historical adventure. A lively tale of plots and passions from the author of The Three Musketeers, The Regent’s Daughter is a satisfying romance of danger and devotion in old France.
About the Author
Alexandre Dumas wrote at industrial scale, with a workshop behind him, and the most important member of it was Auguste Maquet, who drafted plots and researched the novels that went out under Dumas’s name alone. Twenty Years After (1845) and Le Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847…
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