The Marquis of Létorière: Restored Classics to Go Edition

The Marquis de Létorière is a dazzling young nobleman whose beauty, wit, and courtly ease conceal a life of debt, embarrassment, and constant improvisation. In a shabby two-room lodging, he and his devoted former professor, Jean-François Dominique, cling to the hope that brilliance and charm will carry him beyond the petty lawsuit and humiliations of poverty. That tension between elegance and want deepens when a tailor's wife arrives demanding payment for the coat on his back, and later when royal politics and romance collide around Mlle. de Soissons, the Abbey of Montmartre, and a hurried departure toward Vienna. His fortunes then carry him into a harsher world: the stern fortress household of the Governor of Henferester, where boar hunts, rough fare, and masculine discipline reign. There, a gruff German baron, expecting to host the French marquis on business, jokes bitterly about hospitality even as Létorière's uncanny ability to be hunter, scholar, lover, and innocent all at once turns every observer into a witness for a different version of him. When he finally appears in splendid dress, he wins over the room with effortless grace—only to be summoned away by urgent news from Paris, where the king's failing health threatens his future. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.