Category: Historical Novels
There were merriment and music in the Chateau des Tournelles--at that time the abode of France’s royalty!--music and merriment, even from the break of day! That was a singular age, an age of great transitions. The splendid spirit-stirring soul of chivalry was alive yet among t...
It would be wonderful, were it not of daily occurrence, and to be observed by all who give attention to the characteristics of the human mind, how quickly confidence, even when...
6. PART I.There was a mighty stir in the streets of Paris, as Paris’s streets were in the olden time. A dense and eager mob had taken possession, at an early hour of the day, of all the e...
4. CHAPTER I.The early sun was shining on as beautiful a morning of the merry month of May as ever lover dreamed or poet sang, over a gentle pastoral scene in the sunny land of France. It wa...
7. PART II.The castle of St. Renan, like the dwellings of many of the nobles of Bretagne and Gascony, was a superb old pile of solid masonry towering above the huge cliffs which guard the...
5. CHAPTER II.The terrible and fatal field of Poictiers, the field of the Black Prince, had stricken down at a single stroke the might of a great, a glorious nation; her king a captive in a f...
1. CHAPTER I.There were merriment and music in the Chateau des Tournelles--at that time the abode of France’s royalty!--music and merriment, even from the break of day! That was a singular a...
3. CHAPTER III.A cold and dark northeaster, had swept together a host of straggling vapors and thin lowering clouds over the French metropolis--the course of the Seine might be traced easily a...
2. CHAPTER II.It was a clear, bright day in the early autumn, when the royal tiltyard, on the Isle de Paris, was prepared for a deadly conflict. The tilt-yard was a regular, oblong space, enc...