Le Gamin (The Urchin)

Volume One — the first ten chapters, illustrated

Paris, 1626. Étienne is twelve years old and sweeps the alleys for a living — until a sealed royal dispatch slips from a nobleman's cloak and lands in the mud at his feet.

What he does next drags him into a silent war between the King's Musketeers and the Cardinal's guards — and into an unlikely brotherhood with Bastien, a fourteen-year-old runaway with a price on his head, and Julien, a nine-year-old page guarding a terrible secret in the dark.

This volume collects the first ten chapters, illustrated throughout. The story continues.

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Volume One — The Ten Chapters

1. IThe Weight of the Parchment
2. IIThe Hollow Oak
3. IIIThe Price of Defiance
4. IVCrossfire
5. VThe Deserter's Match
6. VIThe Black River
7. VIIThe Cross of Picardy
8. VIIIThe Red and the Blue
9. IXThe Boy in the Dark
10. XThe Cross and the Blade

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