Memoirs of a Favorite. Volume 1

On a snowy January evening in 1815, a priest entered a small cottage on the shores of the English Channel. He was summoned to the bedside of an Englishwoman who feared she would die of despair. She was ready to... confess and tell everything about herself, her sins, vices, and even crimes. This mysterious woman had once been a dazzling beauty, whose arrival in Italy caused a stir, upheaval, and almost a revolution among artists and aristocrats, admirals, and cardinals.
The latest volume of the illustrated collected works of Alexandre Dumas includes the first part of the novel "Memoirs of a Favorite," encompassing a vast panorama of events from the era of upheavals and the collapse of the Old Order in Europe. This book is a self-contained work and simultaneously a supplement to the saga of Louise San-Felice.