China Nights
Worlds Apart
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THE FIRE,THE
SWORD, and THE DEVIL The Fire, the Sword and the Devil is a tale of
dark passions, tender love and riveting suspense. Built
around major historic events in the period 1520-1548, it
is also a tale of tragedy, pain and human triumph.
Marguerite de Navarre, sister of the King of France,
first wrote a portion of this tale in her Heptameron.
Once every hundred years since the 15th Century, the tale
of Marguerite de Roberval' s ordeal on an island off the
coast of Labrador, has been retold, though seldom in
English. This work attempts to answer historic questions
surrounding De Roberval and his neice, Marguerite,
fictionally. The historic period presented is at the apex
of the Age of Exploration, the Reformation, and the
Renaissance. It is peopled with historic figures -
Rabelais and Francis I, Henry VIII and John Calvin,
Cartier and De Roberval, Viceroy of New France.
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