Monsieur des Ageaux was a man of whom his best friends could not say that he shone, or tried to shine, in the pursuit of the fair sex. He was of an age, something over thirty, when experience renders more formidable the remaining charms of youth; and former conquests whet the sword for new emprises. And the time in which he lived and governed the province of Perigord for the King was a time in which the favour of ladies, and the good things to be gained thereby, stood for much, and morality for little. So that for the ambitious the path of dalliance presented almost as many chances of advancement as the more strenuous road of war.
- ISBN10 3732651509
- ISBN13 9783732651504
- Publish Date 5 April 2018 (first published 13 May 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Outlook Verlag
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 312
- Language English