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St. Martin's Summer
St. Martin's Summer
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The life of an heiress is in jeopardy and her only hope is to place her trust in the wiles of a middle-aged swordsman with no use for "women's troubles." As the plots of the conspirators converge it will take all the wiles and accumulated wisdom of Martin Marie Rigobert de Garnache uncover their identity, to save Valerie de La Vauvraye and keep his promise to his Queen.
"Saint Martin's summer" refers to a period of fine weather unexpectedly late in the year, and the title of this work alludes to the advanced age ("close upon forty years") at which the hero finds romance. This is the most broadly comedic of all of Sabatini's novel-length works, and is surely an homage to Alexandre Dumas.
Martin Marie Rigobert de Garnache, "astute and wily as a fox, brave as a lion, and active as a panther," is first cousin to D'Artagnan in his devotion to duty and resourcefulness in carrying out his assigned tasks. Unlike D'Artagnan, he finds serving his Queen (in this case, the queen-regent, Marie de Medicis) trying to his warlike spirit. It is a particular trial to M. de Garnache to find himself ordered to leave the comforts of Paris behind and ride to Grenoble, with only his servant Rabecque in tow, to release the heiress, Valerie de La Vauvraye, from the Chateau de Condillac and the influence of the dowager marquise, who intends that Valerie should marry her own son, Marius, rather than her stepson, the present—and absent—marquis, off taking part in the Italian wars.
The life of an heiress is in jeopardy and her only hope is to place her trust in the wiles of a middle-aged swordsman with no use for "women's troubles." As the plots of the conspirators converge it will take all the wiles and accumulated wisdom of Martin Marie Rigobert de Garnache uncover their identity, to save Valerie de La Vauvraye and keep his promise to his Queen.
"Saint Martin's summer" refers to a period of fine weather unexpectedly late in the year, and the title of this work alludes to the advanced age ("close upon forty years") at which the hero finds romance. This is the most broadly comedic of all of Sabatini's novel-length works, and is surely an homage to Alexandre Dumas.
Martin Marie Rigobert de Garnache, "astute and wily as a fox, brave as a lion, and active as a panther," is first cousin to D'Artagnan in his devotion to duty and resourcefulness in carrying out his assigned tasks. Unlike D'Artagnan, he finds serving his Queen (in this case, the queen-regent, Marie de Medicis) trying to his warlike spirit. It is a particular trial to M. de Garnache to find himself ordered to leave the comforts of Paris behind and ride to Grenoble, with only his servant Rabecque in tow, to release the heiress, Valerie de La Vauvraye, from the Chateau de Condillac and the influence of the dowager marquise, who intends that Valerie should marry her own son, Marius, rather than her stepson, the present—and absent—marquis, off taking part in the Italian wars.
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