From the pen of the writer Charles becomes Charly and suffered his fate. The novel begins when the king, urged by his entourage decided to endorse the massacre of St. Bartholomew. Following this decision, the king guilty and is haunted by the ghosts that follow after. The reader then follows his descent into hell and the evolution of his madness: he hunts in the Louvre, has murderous impulses ... Obsessed with the idea to make amends and atone for his fault, he vainly sought an idea will redeem him before God and men.
Jean Teulé gives us the time a picturesque portrait gallery: the great Catherine de Medici ("Florentine magician), which his son" His dear eyes, "the poor little queen Teutonic, the future Henry IV (stinky fish pourri) ..
Served by a truculent style at the top verb (cleverly mixing expressions XVI and today's language); this novel allows the reader back into the past with a completely shifted second degree humor. Purists will lose their Latin historians, the others will laugh and laugh good of the poor King, first victim of being too naive.
