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What if the blood ties you cannot name hold more power than the loyalties you choose?
In The Regent's Daughter, Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet bring you into a France ruled in a child king's name. Philippe, Duke of Orleans, enjoys private suppers while enemies plot against him. Beside him, Guillaume Dubois gathers secrets and serves power with cunning.
Into this dangerous world comes Gaston de Chanlay, a young Breton nobleman with a strong sense of honour. Politics draws him into peril, while love makes its own demands. Helene's birth remains a secret tied to the Regent, and her fate brings the claims of family, loyalty and the heart into sharp conflict.
What you’ll discover
- A court of secrets Enter a world where private suppers, clever ministers and hidden plans shape the struggle for power.
- A ruler beyond easy judgment Meet a brilliant, pleasure-loving Regent whose forgiving nature complicates the picture his enemies would paint.
- Honour under pressure Follow Gaston as dangerous politics tests the loyalties of a young man drawn into love.
- The weight of hidden birth Discover how Helene's secret origins make blood ties a deeply personal question rather than an abstraction.
- History with a pulse Feel the pace of an adventure that brings political conflict close to the heart.
Who will love it
Readers who love historical adventure with spies, disguises, sharp banter and swift storytelling will enjoy this novel. It also suits admirers of Dumas and of love stories caught between duty and danger.
What’s inside
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- A regent cannot rule his daughters
- Gaston keeps his secret and follows Helene
- A father in the dark and a spy in the inn
- Dubois puts on a disguise and sets a trap
- Gaston confides in the man he hunts
- Brittany stirs and a prophecy shadows Pontcalec
- The Bastille is polite until the torture room
- Honor binds Gaston tighter than love
- Power wears a mask and so does love
- A narrator, borrowed names and a sorceress
Who’s who
- Gaston de ChanlayA young Breton gentleman chosen by lot to strike the regent, he loves Helene and refuses to break an oath of honor.
- Helene de ChavernyA convent orphan called away to a family she has never met, she wants to be with Gaston and to learn who her father is.
- Philippe d'OrleansRegent of France, easygoing, curious, and soft-hearted, he wants peace in his family and his kingdom.
- Abbe DuboisThe regent's former tutor and minister, he runs a secret police and wants to protect the prince and win a cardinal's hat.
- Marquis de PontcalecChief of the Breton plotters, blunt and brave, he believes a sorceress has foretold exactly how he will die.
- Madame DesrochesA tall, thin guardian who looks after Helene for her unseen protector and fears the young girl's strong will.
- TapinDubois's sly police agent, he plays an innkeeper called Champagne and carries out his master's traps with relish.
- OwenGaston's servant, greedy and easily frightened, he sells his master's movements to Dubois for gold.
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Die Tochter des Regenten
by Alexandre Dumas; Auguste Maquet · 1845
A Breton conspirator crosses France to kill the regent, already devoted to a girl raised in a convent.
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A prince drives through snow to scold his daughter, the abbess of Chelles, and finds her burning her cello in the courtyard. That is how The Regent's Daughter begins, and it sets the tone for a story where laughter and danger sit side by side.
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A regent cannot rule his daughters
The story opens on 8 February 1719, when a carriage rolls into Chelles Abbey. Inside are the regent and his minister, the Abbe Dubois, who was once his tutor and now runs a private police force.
They have come because the regent's younger daughter, Louise-Adelaide, has turned the cloister into a party house. The regent means to scold her. Instead she shows him a bonfire in the courtyard, where servants feed it her cello, her harpsichord and chests of music. She says she has become a Jansenist, a follower of a strict form of Catholic piety. On the drive home the regent admits that the preacher was the one who needed the sermon.
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Dumas, Alexandre, and Auguste Maquet. The Regent's Daughter. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-regents-daughter.
Dumas, A., & Maquet, A. (2026). The regent's daughter. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-regents-daughter (Original work published 1845)
Dumas, Alexandre, and Auguste Maquet. The Regent's Daughter. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-regents-daughter.
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What is The Regent's Daughter about?
It tells of a young Breton gentleman sent to Paris in 1719 to kill the regent of France. On the way he follows his beloved, a convent-raised girl whose family is secret, while the regent's minister Dubois watches them.
Who is Dubois in The Regent's Daughter?
Abbe Dubois is the regent's former tutor and chief minister, based on a real historical figure. He runs a private police force, uses disguises and forged seals, and is determined to protect the prince from conspirators.
Is The Regent's Daughter a true story?
The regency of Philippe d'Orleans, the Cellamare conspiracy, and the Breton plot are real history, and many named figures lived. The central love story and several characters are fiction woven through those events by the authors.
The author
Alexandre Dumas
1802–1870 · French novelist and playwright
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) was a French novelist and playwright. He was born in Villers-Cotterêts, lived in Paris, and died in Puys, near Dieppe. He wrote The Three Musketeers (1844), The Count of Monte Cristo (1844–1846), Twenty Years After (1845), and The Black Tulip (1850).
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