Angelique (series)
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Angelique is series of 13 French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 historical adventure books by the novelist duo Anne
Anne Golon
Anne Golon is a French author, better known to English-speaking readers as Sergeanne Golon. She has written a series of novels about a heroine Angelique....

 and Serge Golon
Serge Golon
Serge Golon , born Vsevolod Sergeïvich Goloubinoff, was a writer, the husband of French author Anne Golon, in collaboration with whom he wrote the Angélique series....

. The first 10 books have been adapted into English while numbers 11-13 have not. Some of these books were then adapted into 5 popular movies.

Book series

Book 1: Angélique, the Marquise of the Angels
Angélique, the Marquise of the Angels
Angélique, the Marquise of the Angels is a 1956 novel by Anne Golon & Serge Golon, the first novel in Angélique series. Inspired by the life of Suzanne de Rougé du Plessis-Bellière, known as the Marquise du Plessis-Bellière....

 (1957)

Book 2: Angélique: The Road to Versailles (1958)
{Books 1 and 2 are sometimes combined into 1 volume called simply, Angélique}

Book 3: Angélique and the King (1959)

Book 4: Angélique and the Sultan {otherwise known as Angélique in Barbary} (1960)

Book 5: Angélique in Revolt (1961)

Book 6: Angélique in Love (1961)

Book 7: The Countess Angélique (1964) {otherwise known as Angélique in the New World}

Book 8: The Temptation of Angélique (1966)

Book 9: Angélique and the Demon (1972)

Book 10: Angélique and the Ghosts (1976) {actually known as Angélique and the Conspiracy of Shadows}
  • Angélique à Québec (1980)
  • Angélique, la Route de l'Espoir (1984)
  • La Victoire d'Angélique (1985)
  • Angélique et le Royaume de France (will be released in November 2011)
  • a fifteenth book, still untitled, to conclude the series


The Angélique website: http://www.worldofangelique.com/index.htm

Movie series

The movies were joint production of France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 and Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. Director of the movies was Bernard Borderie
Bernard Borderie
Bernard Borderie , son of Raymond Borderie, one of the producers of Les Enfants du Paradis , was a French film director and screenwriter.-Selected filmography:...

 and the main cast was Michèle Mercier
Michèle Mercier
Michèle Mercier, is a French actress. In the course of her career she has worked with leading directors like François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray, Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Mario Bava, Peter Collinson and Ken Annakin...

 as Angélique Sancé de Monteloup and Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein is a French film actor of Azeri origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute...

 as Joffrey de Peyrac.

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