Henry William Herbert, The Brothers

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The Brothers: A Tale of The Fronde

. 2 vols. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835.

The English edition, with additional miscellaneous tales added to fill out the third volume, was published in London by Henry Colburn in 1844. Several chapters were serialized in 1835 in The American Monthly Magazine, which Herbert edited.

The English edition, with additional miscellaneous tales added to fill out the third volume, was published in London by Henry Colburn in 1844. Several chapters were serialized in 1835 in

The American Monthly Magazine

, which Herbert edited.

A story set within the popular uprising in France, known as the Fronde of the Parlement (1648-49), against Cardinal Mazarin, successor of Richelieu, and told from the point of view of Harry de Mornington, an English cavalier who had fought

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