Kings in exile: Roman. Dode A.

“Kings in exile” - the novel of the French writer and playwright Alfons Dode about the fate of crowned persons who lost the throne and the crown in their homeland and were in a foreign land. The beginning of the events depicted in the novel is precisely dated 1872. Without claiming any historical reliability, Dode gives his story the nature of a wide generalization. The intrigue of the novel is very complicated, the circle of human connections and relations depicted in it is wide and diverse. The reader passes a motley and diverse crowd of people, whose interests are now hostile to, then unite and difficult to intertwine.