Max Pemberton 
The Little Huguenot 
Historical Novel: A Romance of Fontainebleau

The Little Huguenot: A Romance of Fontainebleau is a tale of Lieutenant de Guyon, member of the king musketeers on a challenging mission for his master, King Louis XV of France, known as Louis the Wellbeloved. Accompanied by six men, De Guyon sets forth to the forest of Fontainebleau to find the notorious Gabrielle de Vernet, known as ‘the Little Huguenot, ‘ and to lure her back to Paris. After meeting an unfriendly priest who tries to scare them away, de Guyon begins to wonder whether all the gossip and tales of intrigues he has heard of ‘the Little Huguenot’ are true and he is about to find that out as his company moves deeper in the forest.

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Max Pemberton (1863-1950) was a popular English novelist, working mainly in the adventure and mystery genres. Pemberton was a member of a criminology literary society known as ‘Our Society’ along with eleven other notable members including Bertram Fletcher Robinson and Arthur Conan Doyle.