The Moneyman Author:Thomas B. Costain His name was Jacques Coeur. In the fashionable court of France's Charles VII he was the King's 'moneyman'. He was also a powerfully rich and jealously feared merchant prince. — When it became obvious that the King's ailing mistress had to be replaced, it was he who chose her successor, the astonishingly beautiful sixteen year old Valerie. — What J... more »acques Coeur couldn't have known was that his choice of this lovely girl was to weave the first strands in a fatal net of love and intrigue.« less