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The Chaplet of Pearls

Charlotte M. Yonge

Set in the tumultuous 16th century, the story revolves around the complex relationships and political intrigues that stem from the marriages between two rival branches of the Ribaumont family.

"The Chaplet of Pearls" by Charlotte M. Yonge is a historical novel. Set in the tumultuous 16th century, the story revolves around the complex relationships and political intrigues that stem from the marriages between two rival branches of the Ribaumont family.

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Setting aside the consideration of the risk, the baby-weddings of the Middle Ages must have been very pretty sights.

So the Court of France thought the bridal of Henri Beranger Eustache de Ribaumont and of Marie Eustacie Rosalie de Rebaumont du Nid-de-Merle, when, amid the festivals that accompanied the signature of the treaty of Cateau-Cabresis, good-natured King Henri II. presided merrily at the union of the little pair, whose unite ages did not reach ten years.

There they stood under the portal of Notre-Dame, the little bridegroom in a white velvet coat, with puffed sleeves, slashed with scarlet satin, as were the short, also puffed breeches meeting his long white knitted silk stockings some way above the knee; large scarlet rosettes were in his white shoes, a scarlet knot adorned his little sword, and his velvet cap of the same colour bore a long white plume, and was encircled by a row of pearls of priceless value. They are no other than that garland of pearls which, after a night of personal combat before the walls of Calais, Edward III. of England took from his helmet and presented to Sir Eustache de Ribaumont, a knight of Picardy, bidding him say everywhere that it was a gift from the King of England to the bravest of knights.

Contents

  1. 01Preface
  2. 02The Chaplet of Pearls
  3. 03or
  4. 04The White and Black Ribaumont
  5. 05Chapter I. The Bridal of the White and Black
  6. 06Chapter II. The Separation
  7. 07Chapter III. The Family Council
  8. 08Chapter IV. Tithonus
  9. 09Chapter V. The Convent Bird
  10. 10Chapter VI. Foully Cozened
  11. 11Chapter VII. The Queen’s Pastoral
  12. 12Chapter VIII. ‘Le Brouilon’
  13. 13Chapter IX. The Wedding with Crimson Favours
  14. 14Chapter X. Monsieur’s Ballet.
  15. 15Chapter XI. The King’s Tragedy.
  16. 16Chapter XII. The Palace of Slaughter
  17. 17Chapter XIII. The Bridegroom’s Arrival
  18. 18Chapter XIV. Sweet Heart
  19. 19Chapter XV. Notre-Dame De Bellaise*
  20. 20Chapter XVI. The Hearths and Thickets of the Bocage.
  21. 21Chapter XVII. The Ghosts of the Templars
  22. 22Chapter XVIII. The Moonbeam
  23. 23Chapter XIX. La Rue Des Trois Fees
  24. 24Chapter XX. The Abbe.
  25. 25Chapter XXI. Under the Walnut-Tree
  26. 26Chapter XXII. Departure
  27. 27Chapter XXIII. The Empty Cradle
  28. 28Chapter XXIV. The Good Priest of Nissard
  29. 29Chapter XXV. The Velvet Coach
  30. 30Chapter XXVI. The Chevalier’s Expiation
  31. 31Chapter XXVII. The Dying King
  32. 32Chapter XXVIII. The Orphans of La Sablerie
  33. 33Chapter XXIX. In the King’s Name
  34. 34Chapter XXX. Caged in the Blackbird’s Nest
  35. 35Chapter XXXI. The Dark Pool of the Future
  36. 36Chapter XXXII. ‘Jam Satis’
  37. 37Chapter XXXIII. The Scandal of the Synod of Montauban
  38. 38Chapter XXXIV. Madame La Duchesse
  39. 39Chapter XXXV. The Italian Pedlar
  40. 40Chapter XXXVI. Spell and Potion
  41. 41Chapter XXXVII. Beating Against the Bars
  42. 42Chapter XXXVIII. The Enemy in Presence
  43. 43Chapter XXXIX. The Pedlar’s Prediction
  44. 44Chapter XL. The Sands of Olonne
  45. 45Chapter XLI. Our Lady of Hope
  46. 46Chapter XLII. The Silver Bullet
  47. 47Chapter XLIII. Le Baiser D’eustacie
  48. 48Chapter XLIV. The Galimafre

About this edition

Author
Charlotte M. Yonge
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
316 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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