Сорок пять

The novel is the final part of the trilogy, which also includes 'Queen Margot' and 'Countess de Monsoro', and which depicts the story of the struggle of Henry of Navarre for the French throne. The storyline in the trilogy is united by the story of the struggle of Henry of Navarre for the French throne. The House of Valois is doomed. And neither the public execution of a political criminal, nor 45 horsemen-bodyguards (hence the title of the novel) can no longer save King Henry III of France. Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870) is a famous French writer who won the love of readers with historical adventure novels. Dumas' literary heritage is enormous: in addition to novels, he wrote plays, memoirs, travel essays, children's fairy tales and other works of various genres. The events resurrected in the novel "Forty-five" refer to 1585, when France was ravaged by religious and civil wars and the French monarchy was in real danger of disintegration due to noble conspiracies, peasant riots and urban uprisings. At that time, the aggravated class contradictions led to a new streak of bloody wars, called by historians the 'war of the three Henrys', namely: King Henry III of France, Duke of Guise of Lorraine and Henry of Navarre - the three main characters of the famous trilogy of Alexandre Dumas... Translation from French by A. Kulisher and N. Rykova. Comments by M. Treskunov. Artists A. Ozerevskaya and A. Yakovlev.