The Accursed Kings
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Le Roi de fer (Book 1)
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| Author | Maurice Druon |
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| Country | France |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Publisher | Del Duca/Plon |
| Published | 1955–1977 |
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| Genre | Historical miniseries | ||
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| 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 |
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| Composer(s) | Georges Delerue | Bruno Coulais | |
| Country of origin | France | France | |
| Original language(s) | French | French | |
| No. of episodes | 6 | 5 | |
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| Cinematography | Pierre Mareschal | Ennio Guarnieri | |
| Running time | 616 minutes | 500 minutes | |
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| Original channel | ORTF | France 2 | |
| Original debut | 21 December 1972 | 7 November 2005 | |
| Original end | 24 January 1973 | 28 November 2005 | |
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| 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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