Vendetta in Spain

Vendetta in Spain Readers of The Golden Spaniard and other books in which the glamorous Lucretia-Jose appears with the Duke de Richleau may recall that her parentage was surrounded by mystery. Over the years many people have written, asking for an account of the great romance that led to her birth. The story takes us back to Spain, in 1906, when the Duke had not yet succeeded his father, and was still the Count de Quesnoy. In these days it is not easy for us to realize that, less than fifty years ago, there was hardly a Monarch or President who could leave his bed in the morning with any certainty that he would live through the day. Anarchism permeated every country in Europe. Not a night passed without groups of fanatics meeting in cellars to plan attempts with knives, pistols or bombs against the representatives of law and order; not a month passed without some royalty or high official falling a victim to their plots. In Spain, an historic bomb outrage that led to s...

Author: Wheatley Dennis
Collection: Duke de Richleau
Number of pages: 475
Reading time: 7 h. 55 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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