![]() ![]() ![]() Reading this novel it can be hard to remember that Philip IV, called the Fair, was a real person, that a human could be the way he was, do the things he did they way he did, and ultimately die almost arbitrarily, not in battle, nor poisoned by rivals, or even old and respected, but from an aneurysm. My copy of The Iron King is actually introduced by Martin himself, who credits Druon as a major inspiration for his fantasy series: 'the Starks and Lannisters have nothing on the Capets and Plantagenets.' Somehow the true story is the more horrifying because the characters were real - we can go to their tombs, and see what's left of them. Martin's Game of Thrones became a global phenomenon. Maurice Druon's series The Accursed Kings, of which The Iron King is the first novel, is woefully obscure in the Anglosphere - though less so since George R. ![]()
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