The book of the French writer Agrippa d'Aubigne (1552-1630) includes his satirical novel and memoirs. The novel "The Adventures of Baron Fenest" paints the morals of the court of the last representatives of the royal dynasty of Valois. It is written in the form of a dialogue between a staunch Protestant, the elderly Mr. Aisne, very similar to d'Aubigne himself, and the young inverted vertoprah Baron Fenest, an unprincipled and unabashed adventurer. Civil wars, court customs, religious feuds are reflected in detail in their dialogues, sprinkled with anecdotes about real personalities, closely familiar to d'Aubigne himself. The memoirs "Life Told to Children" give a complete picture of the author himself, one of the most worthy representatives of the social and literary life of France at the end of the 16th - beginning of the 17th centuries. The novel was translated into Russian for the first time