Bardelys the Magnificent (Being an Account of the Strange Wooing Pursued by the Sieur Marcel De Saint Pol, Marquis of Bardelys, and of the Things That in the Course of It Befell Him in Languedoc, in the Year of the Rebellion)
"Bardelys the Magnificent" is a vibrant historical adventure set in 17th-century France during the turbulent reign of Louis XIII. The narrative follows the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, the Marquis of Bardelys, a refined and arrogant courtier who enters into a daring wager to win the heart of a noblewoman in the distant province of Languedoc.