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A number of short stories and one novel (Too Many Magicians) based on the premise that King Richard I of England returned safely from France and that Roger Bacon had codified the laws of magic. Too Many Magicians (1967) Murder and Magic (1979) Lord Darcy Investigates (1981) Ten Little Wizards (1988) A Study in Sorcery (1989) Lord Darcy (2002)
Charles X (Charles Philippe; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836) was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. [1] An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother of reigning kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII , he supported the latter in exile.
Charles X of France (1757–1836) Charles X Gustav (1622–1660), King of Sweden Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon (1523–1590), recognized as Charles X of France but renounced the royal title
Calbia is a small Balkan kingdom in the Doc Savage story, The King Maker, by Lester Dent and Harold A. Davis. [16] Da Le Galbin was the first king of Calbia who has been overthrown when his kingdom is under siege. Clark "Doc" Savage, the scientist and detective, has been chosen by the Kingmaker to be the new ruler of Calbia during the terrorism.
The petition was critical "not of the King, but his ministers", thereby countering the conviction of Charles X that his liberal opponents were enemies of his dynasty. [13] After signing the petition, committee members went directly to Marmont to beg for an end to the bloodshed, and to plead with him to become a mediator between Saint-Cloud and ...
The dragon Yevaud on the cover of Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea. Michael Ende, Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver (1960): Nepomuk, half-dragon by birth – his mother was a hippopotamus –, kind and helpful, later on warden of the Magnetic Cliffs. Frau Mahlzahn (Mrs. Grindtooth): A pure-blood dragon and the main villainess of the ...
Arthur C. Clarke stories. King Henry IX, in the short story "Refugee", is still the Prince of Wales when Britain's first spaceport opens on Salisbury Plain. He stows away in a space freighter heading to Mars. Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's Destiny by Sir Julius Vogel. Emperor Albert is the ruler of the Federated British Empire.
Louis XVIII died in September 1824 and the comte d'Artois succeeded him as Charles X. In a speech from the throne on 22 December 1824, Charles made clear his intention to be crowned in the tradition of the ancien régime. [2] While the 1804 coronation of Napoleon had taken place at Notre-Dame de Paris, the new King selected the ancient site of ...