The young years of King Henry IV. Mann G.

The dilogy of the German writer Henry Mann about the French king Henry IV is deservedly considered a masterpiece of historical prose, comparable to the best novels of Alexander Dumas and Henry Senkevich. The time and place of action is Europe, the sixteenth century, one of the most bloody and gloomy: civil wars, religious fanaticism, Bartholomew’s night, a deadly struggle for power... Europe needed a ruler who could not only extinguish the flame of war, establishing a long -awaited world, but also change the whole The course of history, pushing peoples into the bottomless abyss of death. Such a ruler was King Henry IV from the Bourbon dynasty. Many writers turned to the life of this great monarch, from Voltaire to Alexander Dumas, but it was Henry Mann that belongs to the most exciting, historically true and detailed biography of one of the most popular kings of France.

The first part of the dilogy about Henry IV, telling about the growing and spiritual development of the future monarch, about the adventures and dangers through which he was destined to go on the way to the throne.