Title: Le comte de Moret
First published: 1946
Description: Red Sphinx picks up right where the The Three Musketeers left off, continuing the stories of Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, and King Louis XIII  and introducing a charming new hero, the Comte de Moret, a real historical figure from the period. A young cavalier newly arrived in Paris, Moret is an illegitimate son of the former king, and thus half-brother to King Louis. The French Court seethes with intrigue as king, queen, and cardinal all vie for power, and young Moret soon finds himself up to his handsome neck in conspiracy, danger, and passionate romance. Dumas wrote seventy-five chapters of The Red Sphinx, all for serial publication, but he never quite finished it, and so the novel languished for almost a century before its first book publication in France in 1946. While Dumas never completed the book, he had earlier written a separate novella, The Dove, that recounted the final adventures of Moret and Cardinal Richelieu. Now for the first time, in one cohesive narrative, The Red Sphinx and The Dove make a complete and satisfying storyline, a rip-roaring novel of historical adventure.
Subjects: History, Swordsmen, Courts and courtiers, Translations into English, Cardinals, Fiction, France, fiction, Fiction, historical, Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 -- Translations into English, Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642 -- Fiction, Anne, Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1666 -- Fiction, Moret, Antoine de Bourbon, comte de, 1607-1632 -- Fiction, Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643 -- Fiction, Cardinals -- Fiction, Swordsmen -- Fiction, Courts and courtiers -- Fiction, France -- History -- Louis XIII, 1610-1643 -- Fiction
Places: France
People: Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), Armand Jean du Plessis Richelieu duc de (1585-1642), Anne Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France (1601-1666), Louis XIII King of France (1601-1643), Antoine de Bourbon Moret comte de (1607-1632)
Time periods: Louis XIII, 1610-1643