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Fictional life of French King's personal assassin who commits six murders, his love affair, struggle with his conscience and death on the guillotine. Jean Louis Valmont, son of groom in Royal Stables, taken up and cultivated by King Louis XV. Once grown, in early career Valmont murders a duchess and a countess, both mistresses of King who get in monarch's way, later the King's son for politics, daughter-in-law to cover crime, the Queen to sexually free up the King, and the King's personal valet who annoys Louis XV. Story is also of Valmont's love for Juliette Beauvoir, a chambermaid who is raped but later seduced by Duc de Richelieu, as well as Valmont's friendship with Madame de Pompadour and his services to Madame du Barry, both mistresses to Louis XV. After the King's death Valmont tries to come to terms with what he did, including seeking out the writer Voltaire. Eventually he falls into the hands of the revolutionaries and is reunited with Julie after many years. He meets the soon to be executed last bastard son of Louis XV and though to be set free, changes places with young man and dies in his place. The subject of the book through its presentation of the characters is France itself and covers the years from 1723 until 1794.
About the Author: Stanley Warren was born in New York City in 1940. He has an M. A. in English Literature, from City University of New York and a B. A. in English from Hofstra University. He has written for trade and consumer magazines and newspapers as an editor, reporter and columnist. His creative work has been centered on poetry, having some 30 poems appearing in print, as well as doing numerous poetry readings. In 1968 he wrote lyrics for the debut album of two progressive electronic rock musicians titled Silver Apples, and several of his lyrics are still sung today. He also has written three non-fiction works: a sexual memoir, Flowers Never Bend (published in 1998 online by SpiritVitrtualBooks); a first person work account about being an EMT in Detroit, The Meat Factory, self-published in 1999; and The Effects of War, annotated Civil War letters with supporting text, published in 2007 by the Warner New Hampshire Historical Society. In the past decade he has turned to fiction writing, having two short stories published. "Pay the Price," a fantasy work in Bored Again, and "The Death of Baby Hitler," a science fiction story in Launch Pad, both "little press" magazines in Philadelphia "The King's Pawn" is his first novel.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781480073289
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Edition: Annotated edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 216 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1480073288
  • Publisher Date: 31 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 218
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 566 gr

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