A classic historical novel about the era of confrontation between Catholics and Protestants in 16th-century France. Civil wars, the highest point of which was the Bartholomew's Night of August 24, 1572 . seen through the eyes of the young provincial nobleman-Huguenot Bernard de Mergi, who arrived in Paris to his brother . Captain Georges de Murgis, having taken part in a religious war, lost faith in God, formally converted to Catholicism and successfully advanced in service. He introduces his brother to the court society, introduces the beautiful ladies surrounding Catherine de Medici . But civil war spares neither love nor brotherly friendship.