# Ascanio

Author: Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66620

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Ascanio+Dumas&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

"Never perhaps," says Miss Pardoe (in the Preface to the "Court and Reign of Francis I."), "did the reign of any European sovereign present so many and such varying phases. A contest for empire, a captive monarch, a female regency, and a religious war; the poisoned bowl and the burning pile alike doing their work of death amid scenes of uncalculating splendor and unbridled dissipation; the atrocities of bigotry and intolerance, blent with the most unblushing licentiousness and the most undisguised profligacy;--such are the materials offered to the student by the times of Francis I."

## Chapters

- [Volume XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ascanio-66620/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Volume XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ascanio-66620/chapters/1/index.md)