Three Great English Victories: A 3-book Collection of Harlequin, 1356 and Azincourt
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Bernard Cornwell. Three Great English Victories: A 3-book Collection of Harlequin, 1356 and Azincourt
THREE GREAT ENGLISH VICTORIES. Harlequin. 1356. Azincourt. Bernard Cornwell
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HARLEQUIN
BERNARD CORNWELL
Copyright
Dedication
Prologue
PART ONEBrittany
PART TWONormandy
PART THREECrécy
Historical Note
BERNARD CORNWELL
Copyright
Dedication
Prologue. Carcassonne
PART ONE. Avignon
One
Two
Three
PART TWO. Montpellier
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
PART THREE. Poitiers
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
PART FOUR. Battle
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Historical Note
Azincourt
Copyright
Dedication
Prologue
PART ONESaint Crispin and Saint Crispinian
PART TWONormandy
PART THREETo the River of Swords
PART FOURSaint Crispin’s Day
Epilogue
Historical Note
About the Author
Also by Bernard Cornwell
The SHARPE series (in chronological order)
About the Publisher
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Title Page
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The Blackbird had been christened Jeanette Marie Halevy, and when she was fifteen her parents had taken her to Guingamp for the annual tournament of the apples. Her father was not an aristocrat so the family could not sit in the enclosure beneath St Laurent’s tower, but they found a place nearby, and Louis Halevy made certain his daughter was visible by placing their chairs on the farm wagon which had carried them from La Roche-Derrien. Jeanette’s father was a prosperous shipmaster and wine merchant, though his fortune in business had not been mirrored in life. One son had died when a cut finger turned septic and his second son had drowned on a voyage to Corunna. Jeanette was now his only child.
There was calculation in the visit to Guingamp. The nobility of Brittany, at least those who favoured an alliance with France, assembled at the tournament where, for four days, in front of a crowd that came as much for the fair as for the fighting, they displayed their talents with sword and lance. Jeanette found much of it tedious, for the preambles to each fight were long and often out of earshot. Knights paraded endlessly, their extravagant plumes nodding, but after a while there would be a brief thunder of hooves, a clash of metal, a cheer, and one knight would be tumbled in the grass. It was customary for every victorious knight to prick an apple with his lance and present it to whichever woman in the crowd attracted him, and that was why her father had taken the farm wagon to Guingamp. After four days Jeanette had eighteen apples and the enmity of a score of better-born girls.
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