Publication #19 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Open fire series. After carving a free state for itself in war-torn 17th hundred years Europe, citizens of the present day city of Grantville, West Virginia must cope with France’s infamous Cardinal Richilieu, who’s determined to keep his grip on power no real matter what history says. France, 1636 . It has been twenty years since Ruler Louis took ANa Maria Mauricia, little girl of Spain’s King Philip III, as his wife, and their union hasn’t yet about 1636: The Cardinal Virtues produced an heir. Beneath the assistance of his chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu, an idea is developed to remedy that circumstance. Once she actually is with child, Queen Anne switches into seclusion to guard her health and protect her from those that would prefer that the child is never born-France’s foreign enemies as well as schemers such as for example Monsieur Gaston d’Orleans, the King’s young brother and heir. When the Crown’s competitors make their move, factions outside and inside France must select sides and help determine the future and fate from the Kingdom. About 1636: The Devil’s Opera: ‘Another participating alternate background from a professional from the genre.’-Booklist ‘. . . an old-style police-procedural secret, set in 17th hundred years Germany. . . . the threads . . . spin together . . . to weave an addictively engaging story. . . . a strong addition to a great series.’- Daily Information of Galveston State About Eric Flint’s Ring of Fireplace series: ‘This alternate history series is . a landmark.’-Booklist ‘[Eric] Flint’s 1632 universe seems to be motivating a whole fresh crop of gifted alternative historians.’-Booklist ‘.reads like a technothriller set in age the Medicis.’-Publishers Weekly