Excerpt from The Magician, Vol. 2 of 3

The conspiracy of the relations of Gilles de Retz, which disturbed the latter part of the reign of John V., was in all probability, as the English knight Beauchamp had hinted entered into more from personal than public motives. Or rather, it may be considered as one of the last throes of a convulsion which had continued for numerous centuries.

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