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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
For readers who love historical adventure, court intrigue and a love story set against real politics, and those who enjoy Dumas for his pace.
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- A kingdom ruled in a child's name
- A ruler who is hard to dislike
- Dubois, the clever servant of power
- Young people drawn into dangerous plans
- Secret birth, honour and the claims of love
- How Dumas and Maquet tell it
Who’s who
- Philippe, Duke of OrleansThe Regent of France, a clever, forgiving and pleasure-loving ruler, who governs for the child king and cares for his own family.
- Guillaume DuboisThe Regent's shrewd former tutor and minister, who gathers secrets and serves his master by cunning.
- Gaston de ChanlayA young Breton nobleman of strong honour, who is drawn into dangerous politics and into love.
- HeleneA young woman whose birth is a secret tied to the Regent, and whose fate is bound up with the court.
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The Regent's Daughter
by Alexandre Dumas; Auguste Maquet · 1845
Gaston de Chanlay is drawn into dangerous politics and love as a secret of birth ties private lives to the state's fate.
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A kingdom ruled in a child's name
The story opens in the period known as the Regency. Louis XIV had reigned for decades, and when he died in 1715 his heir was a small child, the future Louis XV. Power passed to his nephew Philippe, Duke of Orleans, who governed as Regent. The mood of the country changed at once. The stiff, devout court of the old king gave way to a looser, wittier, more worldly Paris centred on the Palais-Royal, the Regent's home.
Dumas loved this setting because it was full of contrast. On one side stood the grand families who had served the old king and who resented the new ruler. On the other stood the Regent himself, who was clever, brave, fond of science and art, and famously fond of pleasure. His private suppers were the talk of the city. Enemies called them scandalous, and friends called them a sign of a relaxed and humane government.
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What is The Regent's Daughter about?
It is a historical novel set in Regency France, when Philippe of Orleans ruled for the child Louis XV. It follows court intrigue, plots against the Regent, and young people caught between love, honour and a family secret.
Who wrote The Regent's Daughter?
Alexandre Dumas wrote it with his collaborator Auguste Maquet. Maquet researched and shaped plots for many Dumas novels, while Dumas gave them their pace and dialogue. It appeared in French as Une fille du Regent.
Is The Regent's Daughter a true story?
No. It is fiction set among real events and people of the Regency, such as the Regent and Dubois. Dumas freely mixes invented characters with history, so it should be read as an adventure story, not a record.
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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