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Les Rois maudits

The Accursed Kings
Le roi de fer-Maurice Druon (1955).jpg
Le Roi de fer (Book 1)
1955 French hardcover
  • Le Roi de fer (1955)
  • La Reine étranglée (1955)
  • Les Poisons de la couronne (1956)
  • La Loi des mâles (1957)
  • La Louve de France (1959)
  • Le Lys et le lion (1960)
  • Quand un Roi perd la France (1977)
Author Maurice Druon
Country France
Genre Historical fiction
Publisher Del Duca/Plon
Published 1955–1977
Media type Print
Les Rois maudits
Genre Historical miniseries
Based on Les Rois maudits by Maurice Druon
Year 1972 2005
Screenplay by Marcel Jullian Anne-Marie Catois
Directed by Claude Barma Josée Dayan
Starring Jean Piat
Hélène Duc
Philippe Torreton
Jeanne Moreau
Composer(s) Georges Delerue Bruno Coulais
Country of origin France France
Original language(s) French French
No. of episodes 6 5
Production
Cinematography Pierre Mareschal Ennio Guarnieri
Running time 616 minutes 500 minutes
Release
Original channel ORTF France 2
Original debut 21 December 1972 (1972-12-21) 7 November 2005 (2005-11-07)
Original end 24 January 1973 (1973-01-24) 28 November 2005 (2005-11-28)
External links
Website N/A Official website (Archive)
Genre Historical miniseries
Based on Les Rois maudits by Maurice Druon
Year 1972 2005
Screenplay by Marcel Jullian Anne-Marie Catois
Directed by Claude Barma Josée Dayan
Starring Jean Piat
Hélène Duc
Philippe Torreton
Jeanne Moreau
Composer(s) Georges Delerue Bruno Coulais
Country of origin France France
Original language(s) French French
No. of episodes 6 5
Production
Cinematography Pierre Mareschal Ennio Guarnieri
Running time 616 minutes 500 minutes
Release
Original channel ORTF France 2
Original debut 21 December 1972 (1972-12-21) 7 November 2005 (2005-11-07)
Original end 24 January 1973 (1973-01-24) 28 November 2005 (2005-11-28)
External links
Website N/A Official website (Archive)

The Accursed Kings (French: Les Rois maudits) is a sequence of seven historical novels by French author Maurice Druon about the French monarchy in the 14th century. Published between 1955 and 1977, the series has been adapted as a miniseries twice for television in France.

American author George R. R. Martin called The Accursed Kings "the original game of thrones", citing Druon's novels as an inspiration for his own A Song of Ice and Fire series.

Set during the reigns of the last five kings of the Capetian dynasty and the first two kings of the House of Valois, the series begins as the French King Philip the Fair, already surrounded by scandal and intrigue, brings a curse upon his family when he persecutes the Knights Templar. The succession of monarchs that follows leads France and England to the Hundred Years' War.

The first six novels of Les Rois maudits were published in France by Del Duca between 1955 and 1960, and the final volume was released by Plon in 1977. The initial six books were first issued in English (translated by Humphrey Hare) between 1956 and 1961, by Rupert Hart-Davis in the United Kingdom and by Scribner's in the United States, with periodic reprints through the 1980s. Between 2013 and 2015, HarperCollins reissued the entire series in print and audiobook, including the last installment The King Without a Kingdom, which had never previously been published in English.


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