<p><strong>Short description:</strong> When M.E. de Valois was appointed private secretary to the living legend of politics Prince Talleyrand, little could he have guessed about the purpose of his work. His employer called the work "the mysterious strength of legitimacy," but others had already described it as "the present mystery of lawlessness." Its regime was one of curious ambitions. It claimed clarity and justice as its reasons, but ambivalence was its fashion and duplicity its condition; and while allegiance was its first command, treason appeared to be its rite of passage.</p> <p><strong>About the series: </strong><em>East, A Might Gale Is Blowing</em> is the first book in the tetralogy of <em>Evlampia</em>. The tetralogy of <em>Evlampia</em> is based on the tetradic idea of the four basic elements of the natural space - air, earth, water, and fire.</p> <p>This e-book is available for purchase for $4.00 in PDF, EPUB (iBooks, Kobo, Nook, Android, Sony, and other eReaders), and/or MOBI (Amazon Kindle Devices) format.</p> <p><strong>Short excerpt from Chapter 1 - Tale of a civil servant: </strong>Names, names of all sorts, and their legitimacy and relevance are my trade. Their examination had always absorbed a great deal of my working time, and now that I retired, it remains a source of occasional surprise. A demanding but thankless calling it is, as names these days are known to be able to move mountains, and yet too little attention will be spent on their