ABOUT BOOK

A story of France when Protestants and Catholics were engaged in their most desperate struggle for supremacy--but the clashing of the creeds is merely an incident in the telling of a tale of love and adventure. The hero, the Comte de Mar, is a young nobleman whose father, the Due de St. Quentin, sides with the Huguenot Henry of Navarre, who at the time holds Paris in siege; the heroine, Mile. de Montluc, "The Rose of Lorraine," is of the house of Mayenne, the head of the Catholic League; and the tale is told in the first person by Felix Broux, a page in attendance on the lover. The action of the play is confined to four days of the week preceding the Sunday on which Henry III declares his adhesion to Catholicism.