![]() I have a personal inclination to historical fiction. And as the Angel of Death approaches, the soothsayer gives into her safekeeping some very special parchments – parchments that the titled heads of France would do anything to see.Ī rich, dramatic adventure set in the tumultuous years of the late sixteenth century in France – a time of assassination, poisons, seers and the sword. ![]() For he is certain that Fate links him and Melisande together. His mother, Catherine de Medici, pays more heed to the soothsayer’s words – she believes he can truly see the future.īut Nostradamus’s prophecies are not only for those who rule: he also has a message for Melisande, the minstrel’s daughter. ![]() When Nostradamus, wild-eyed and trembling, proclaims to the French court his prophecy of a great massacre, the young King Charles only laughs. ![]() ‘Hark to the Beating Wings of the Angel of Death!’ ![]()
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