The Forty-Five Guardsmen

Name: The Forty-Five Guardsmen
Author: Alexandre Dumas

Chicot and a band of forty-five Gascon guardsmen defend Henri III against conspiracies in the twilight of the Valois dynasty.

Books mentioned in The Forty-Five Guardsmen (3)

Chicot the Jester by Alexandre Dumas: “led Chicot to the little room already so well known to all readers of "Chicot, the Jester."”
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “a gray-headed lackey, who looked like the precursor of Sancho Panza, as his master did of Don Quixote.”
De Rerum Natura by Lucretius: “Because you are not a Latin scholar, and have not read the 'De Natura Rerum.'”