Chapter I: Page 1

LANDING at Calais—Meeting of a Custom-House Officer with
Fanny—Historical remains—John’s mode of Confession—The Hero malgré
lui—The Courtgain—St. Omer’s—The Abbey of St. Bertin and the
Cathedral—St. Denis and the miraculous St. Hubert—The strength of
the short Pepin—Lillers, and John’s precautions—St. Pol—Doullens,
the Citadel and the Corporal—The possession of Doullens by the
Huguenots—The taking of Amiens caused by love for a fair
Widow—Hernand Teillo’s stratagem—His success chiefly owing to a
body of Irishmen—Henry the Fourth’s emotion and resolve—Death of
Hernand Teillo—Amiens—The Sunstroke—The warlike show—A religious
Picture strangely imagined—The Beffroi and its tragedy—The
Cathedral and its Tombs—The travelling Crucifix—The Bishop who
sheltered Philip of Valois after the battle of Crecy—The Pavement
marked in fatal memorial—The Grave of Hernand Teillo—Characters and
portraits of the Canons—The contrite Ass and presentation of an
infant, Breteuil