![]() But Versailles – all glitter in front and squalor behind – leaves Merivel in despair, until a chance encounter with Madame de Flamanville, a seductive Swiss botanist, allows him to dream of an honourable future.īut will that future ever be his? Back home at Bidnold Manor, his loyalty and medical skill are tested to their limits, while the captive bear he has brought back from France begins to cause unlooked-for havoc in his heart and on his estate. In search of answers, Merivel sets off for the French court. Questions crowd his mind: has he been a good father? Is he a fair master? Is he the King’s friend or the King’s slave? Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his gift to turn sorrow into laughter, now faces the agitations and anxieties of middle age. ![]() ![]() The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone. ![]()
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