Recounting the fortunes of the last Capetian kings of France during the early 1300s, the books are steamy potboilers featuring transnational political power brokering, corruption in government, clashes over secular and religious authority, and malignant competition for entitlements familial intrigue, ungovernable lust, adultery and murder, homosexual dalliances, baby-switching, and all manner of vices vividly described.
Translated into English in the 1950s, they are currently being reissued in paperback editions by Harper Collins: The Iron King and The Strangled Queen ( 2013), also The Poisoned Crown, The Royal Succession, The She Wolf, The Lily and the Lion, and The King Without a Kingdom (2014). The reputed French historical novelist Maurice Druon wrote seven volumes for his medieval series, The Accursed Kings (Les Rois maudits), that proved to be very popular.
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