The Lovers of Yvonne by Rafael Sabatini, Fiction, Historical, Action & Adventure 12+

📓 "You are not a coward, Monsieur," said the dark lady. "I have been accounted many unsavory things, Madame, but my bitterest enemies never dubbed me that." "Why, then, did you run away?" "Why? Ma foi! because in the excessive humility of my soul I recognized myself unfit to die." It was a day that set events in motion that shaped history for centuries to come.