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The Sire de Malétroit’s Door (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)

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Denis de Beaulieu, a young cavalier, is precocious in the arts of chivalry and war. Not yet twenty-two years old, he has already killed a man in battle and is confident as he goes about his affairs. One dark, unsettled September night in 1429, Denis finds himself alone in a territory jointly occupied by Burgundian and English troops. Although he is there under safe conduct, that means little in the brutal realities of the Hundred Years’ War. His situation is perilous and, after visiting a friend, he becomes lost in the unfamiliar surroundings on his return to his...

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