"It was incredible how quiet the world in 1615 was after dark." Greg Rich thinks this after he travels through time by means of a family heirloom crystal and a painting in the Louvre. His family had fallen on hard times and agreed to sell everything they owned, including his mother's necklace with the crystal. Museum director, Michel Dinicoeur, insisted that it be part of the deal. Greg has had to undergo many changes in a short time. He had to leave Connecticut, his fencing lessons, and their fifty room mansion, for a small New York City apartment and public school. Now he has left his time period and journeyed four hundred into the Paris past...and meets the Three Musketeers and is named D'Artagnon... Mr. Gibbs, author of Belly Up, has given us an outstanding tale of medieval Paris, friendship, loyalty, and bravery. Carefully integrating the personalities of the 4 Musketeers, he has wrought a tale sure to please...and challenges one to read Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers.
La Mort Triste - The Sad Death - was the worst prison in Paris. It was a disease pit.
"When Paris was a walled city, the medieval Louvre guarded the main entrance. But when the city expanded beyond the walls in the 1500's, the Louvre...became the royal palace...for over 200 years..."
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