Set in the same period as his best-known novel, Alexandre Dumas?s ?forgotten masterpiece? (Le Monde) features two steely and preternaturally modern heroines fighting on opposite sides of the wars that ravaged seventeenth-century France. An unabashed page-turner, humorous, dramatic, and crackling with panache, this new English translation?the first in more than 100 years?shows Dumas at the peak of his powers.