Red Robe and Grey Robe or Richelieu Defied by Victor Hugo Red Robe and Grey Robe or Richelieu Defied Victor Hugo F. Tennyson Neely Copyright 1899 Translated by Henry L. Williams 581 pages The binding has breaks but all pages are present and attached. The pages are tanned, have scattered brown age spots and mild foxing on the edges. There is a bookplate and blindstamped name in the front. The cover is rubbed and edge worn, there is an old label on the spine. Chapter 1: It was towards the close of August, in the Year of Grace, 1618. Albeit stretched on the rack, for the taxes and exactions of petty lords who tormented sunny France, Nature remained insensible to the fret of little man, however dressed, in cloth of gold, in homespun or clerical black, and the landscape was beauteous around and in the bourg of Richelieu... (#0000489)