I Was
the King
From Alfred the Great to our present, a single voice recounts eleven centuries of British power from the inside — and we do not, at first, know who it is.
Je fus le Roi — A British Soul is a forthcoming French-language novel by Franck Lavoyer, the British volume of the « Je fus le Président » series.
An island, a crown, and the long quarrel between liberty and order.
From Alfred and the Norman Conquest to Magna Carta, from the civil wars to empire and our own present, each era becomes a scene, each reign a trial — carried by one lucid, melancholy, often wry voice, all the way to a question that burns in our own time.
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