Honour and the Sword (73 page)

The only one of these notables whom André never met was the kindly Governor of Doullens who returned Jacques’ ring. This would have been the celebrated François de Jussac d’Ambleville, Sieur de Saint-Preuil, who was executed in 1641 for attacking the garrison at Baupaume when nobody told him they had already capitulated. His real crime may have been involvement in the Soissons rebellion, but the injustice of his death provides a timely reminder that the world André was now entering was fraught with more danger than the one he was leaving behind.

Edward Morton
Cambridge, April 2010

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Epigraph

Acknowledgements

Editor’s Note

Honour and the Sword

PART I: The Boy

One

Jacques Gilbert

Père Gérard Benoît

Jacques Gilbert

Père Gérard Benoît

Jacques Gilbert

Two

Stefan Ravel

Père Gérard Benoît

Jacques Gilbert

Anne du Pré

Jacques Gilbert

Three

Jacques Gilbert

Colin Lefebvre

Jacques Gilbert

Four

Colin Lefebvre

Jacques Gilbert

Colin Lefebvre

Jacques Gilbert

Five

Stefan Ravel

Jacques Gilbert

Stefan Ravel

Jacques Gilbert

Stefan Ravel

Jacques Gilbert

Colin Lefebvre

Jacques Gilbert

Stefan Ravel

Six

Jacques Gilbert

Stefan Ravel

Jacques Gilbert

Jean-Marie Mercier

Jacques Gilbert

Stefan Ravel

Jacques Gilbert

Colin Lefebvre

Jacques Gilbert

Jean-Marie Mercier

Jacques Gilbert

Seven

Anne du Pré

Carlos Corvacho

Jacques Gilbert

Stefan Ravel

Jean-Marie Mercier