An Enemy to the King / From the Recently Discovered Memoirs of the Sieur de la Tournoire

A young provincial nobleman recounts his coming of age at the Parisian court, mixing military duty with a consuming romance and a taste for city pleasures. His narrative moves between clandestine meetings and public brawls as factional feuds among royal favorites and a rival prince escalate into duels, ambuscades, and political danger. Forced to flee and to take refuge in provincial châteaus, he faces betrayals, tests of honor, and repeated combats, while maintaining loyalties and pursuing rescue and reconciliation. Told in episodic first person, the memoir blends adventure, courtly intrigue, swordplay, and romantic longing into a continuous account of survival and devotion.