King of France Francis I is crazy. It's no joke, at fifty, falling in love with a seventeen-year-old! All the courtiers are ready to nod and assent to the ageless monarch, only the jester Triboulet is not cheerful. Fear lurks on his always smiling face. While the Louvre is deciding who is the bigger fool - the king or his jester, the Chevalier de Ragastin returns to Paris, the city of his childhood. His goal is to find and return what he lost. Ragasten knows where to look, but with all his strength and courage he understands that it is almost impossible to do this alone. There is a place in Paris, entering which any mortal can gain immortality if there is someone to remember him. Ragasten decides to turn to the king for help... The novel by the French writer Michel Zevaco, who wielded a pen as easily as a sword, immerses readers in the turbulent era of the Renaissance. In his own special way, he tells a story that is as old as time. A story once glorified in Hugo’s play and sung in Verdi’s immortal opera. Published in Russian for the first time.