Louis X marries Clémence of Hungary, beautiful and devout, and tries to rule. The campaign against Flanders gets stuck in the mud and becomes a joke. In Artois, the nobles rise against Mahaut, and the king listens to them. Mahaut, who has already lost a lot, decides to act with help from her lady Béatrice d'Hirson and a poison. Guccio secretly marries Marie de Cressay without her family knowing. In June 1316, after a game of jeu de paume, Louis X dies. Clémence is pregnant, and France has no idea who is in charge until the baby is born.
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ChangeThe mud campaign offstage
The book shows Louis X's army bogged down in Flanders. The 1972 version, shot in a studio, sticks to the basics; the 2005 one goes for battle scenes with extras.
Druon tells of poisons and plots with a chronicler's distance. The 2005 version reshuffles the plot, speeds up the action and shows sex and violence with a frankness the 1972 one lacked.
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