Quentin Durward (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- First Published: 1823
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1468
- Setting: France and Flanders
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: France or French people, Love or romance, Kings, queens, or royalty, Castles, Fifteenth century, Scotland or Scottish people, Armies, Battles, Nobility
- Locales: France, Flanders
Characters Discussed
King Louis XI (lwee), sometimes disguised as Maître Pierre, a merchant, the wily, able monarch of France, rivaled in power by the hot-headed duke of Burgundy. Gifted at Machiavellian politics, he schemes to weaken the duke by placing, through marriage, a hostile nobleman in his territory. His plan in sending Isabelle, countess de Croye, and her aunt to Liège is to have the outlawed Wild Boar of Ardennes waylay the ladies and marry one of them. Meanwhile, he travels to Burgundy to bargain with the duke and is imprisoned when the duke learns of the uprising...
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