The Temptation of Angelique

by Sergeanne Golon

William Heinemann, 1969 [First Edition], hardcover, dust-jacket

Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex-library with stamps on front and back end-papers and title page, slight lean, price-clipped dust-jacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping and creasing to edges and corners (see photographs)

"Queen of the Paris underworld and favourite of the legendary Sun King, Angelique has held not only Sultans, thieves and a chief of police but millions of readers in her thrall.  Now fortune separates the green-eyed Countess de Peyrac and her beloved husband Joffrey, when she is summoned unexpectedly to the North American settlement of Brunswick-Falls.  In this virgin land danger threatens everywhere; Indians covet her scalp, pirates of the Barbe d'Or her husband's wealth, while Jesuit priests fear her as the very personification of Evil."