The Conspirators

Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Nicolas Lancret, Jean-Antoine Watteau and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. The regency of Philippe d'Orléans, the Cellamare plot, and a Breton conspirator who walks into Paris with a letter he must not lose. Dumas wrote it in 1841, before the musketeer novels, and worked the real trial records into the plot. The love story and the conspiracy are wo...