Carried by a wave of romanticism and orientalism that reached its peak in the 19th and 20th centuries, artists and writers imagined the love lives of the Magi. In a sharp style combining drama and mystery, the author Michel Tournier, in his best-seller “The Three Kings” published in 1983, tells the love story of Gaspard of Meroe with Biltrine, a white slave. “To seduce her, Gaspard brought Biltrine and the one she presented as her brother to sail on the Nile and race camels. Biltrine sang Phoenician melodies with her zither. But Biltrine was in love with the one she presented as her brother.”