"Roberta Gellis - Fire Song" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gellis Roberta)

Created by the producers of

The Roselynde Chronicles,

Wagons West, and

The Kent Family Chronicles Series.

Chairman of the Board: Lyle Kenyon Engel.


FIRE SONG

A Jove Book/published by arrangement with Book Creations, Inc.


PRINTING HISTORY

Jove edition/April 1984


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Copyright © 1984 by Book Creations, Inc., and Roberta Gellis


ISBN: 0-515-07529-9


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FOREWORD



In 1253, Gascony was the only province out of the vast territories in France inherited by English kings
from Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine that remained under England's rule. Gascony remained allied
principally for two reasons: England bought most of the wine produced and was thus a mainstay of the
province's economy; and the turbulent nobility and equally turbulent independent towns of the province