The Lost Seigneur
(A Chateau Laux Odyssey, Book #2)
by David Loux
(A Chateau Laux Odyssey, Book #2)
by David Loux
Publication Date: October 7th, 2025
Publisher: Wire Gate Press
Pages: 226
Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
The Lost Seigneur is a sequel to the award-winning Chateau Laux.
It is the story of Jean-Pierre du Laux, a nobleman in southern France, who was wrongly imprisoned during a time of religious intolerance and subsequently endeavors to return to his family. Many years have passed since he saw them, and his long incarceration has broken his health.
Any reunion would clearly have been impossible, without the unlikely help of a youthful companion that he meets along the way.
Five Minute History - The Cathars
By David Loux
The origin of the Cathar faith is not known with absolute certainty. Many historians trace its roots to the Byzantine Empire, from where it most likely traveled through the Balkans and arrived in Europe along with the early crusaders returning from the Levant. It was a dualistic faith, grounded in Christian Gnosticism, which clashed with traditional Roman Catholicism.
By 1143, the Cathars were firmly entrenched in southern France. They had their own church structure, with bishops in Albi, Toulouse, Carcassonne and Agen. Cathar adepts freely wandered the countryside, administering the duties of their faith. One of the things that set Catharism apart from its Roman counterpart was that women were considered coequal with men. Many noble families had mothers and sisters who were Cathars.
In response to this competitive threat, the Papacy instituted an inquisition against the Cathars in 1184. A full-blown military crusade against them followed in 1209.
The Protestant Reformation introduced new threats to Rome, and the ensuing Wars of Religion continued the onslaught of one Christian group against another. These wars ended with the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which granted some religious toleration to Protestants. But French King Louis XIV instituted the Dragonnades in 1681, which billeted troops in the homes of Protestants, in an attempt to force their conversion to Catholicism. Atrocities were commonplace.
The story of Jean-Pierre du Laux, who is the patriarch in The Lost Seigneur, takes place in the waning years of the seventeenth century and the decades that followed, in a land that suffered a persistent legacy
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He lives in the Eastern Sierra with his wife, Lynn.
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