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Quentin Durward (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Quentin Durward (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
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Quentin Durward is a young Scotsman seeking fame and fortune in the
France of Louis XI in the fifteenth century. He knows little and
understands less, but Scott represents his ignorance and naivete as
useful to 'the most sagacious prince in Europe' who needs servants
motivated solely by the desire for coin and credit and lacking any
interest in France which would interfere with the execution of his
political aims. In Quentin Durward Scott studies the first modern
state in the process of destroying the European feudal system. By
far the most important of Scott's sources for Quentin Durward is
the splendid Memoirs of Philippe de Comines. Comines, who has more
than a walk-on role in the novel itself, was trusted councillor of
Charles the Bold of Burgundy until 1472, when Louis XI persuaded
him to enter his service. Scott's contrasting portraits of Louis
and Charles, crafty king and fiery duke, essentially derives from
Comines, whose memoirs are generally regarded as the first example
of modern analytical history rather than chronicle. But it is as
story that Quentin Durward succeeds, and it is one of Scott's most
absorbing tales.
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