Synopsis

A blight has fallen upon Paris, nurtured by the clandestine alliance of a corrupt Governor and the Duke de Beaufort, the city’s principal purveyor of sustenance. They plot a false flag: a staged robbery of the granary, meticulously designed to implicate the city's desperate refugees. The pilfered grain will later be resold to the King at a profit beyond measure. D'Artagnan, caught in the turmoil with the rioting populace, is taken prisoner. With him are the refugees, facing certain execution at