Chapter I: Front Matter

THE QUEEN PEDAUQUE

By Anatole France

Translated By Jos. A. V. Stritzko

Introduction By James Branch Cabell

Contents:

I. Why I recount the singular Occurrences of my Life

II. My Home at the Queen Pedauque Cookshop--I turn the Spit and
learn to read--Entry of Abbe Jerome Coignard

III. The Story of the Abbe’s Life

IV. The Pupil of M. Jerome Coignard--I receive Lessons in Latin,
Greek and Life

V. My Nineteenth Birthday--Its Celebration and the Entrance of
M. d’Asterac

VI. Arrival at the Castle of M. d’Asterac and Interview with the
Cabalist

VII. Dinner and Thoughts on Food

VIII. The Library and its Contents

IX. At Work on Zosimus the Panopolitan--I visit my Home and hear
Gossip about M. d’Asterac

X. I see Catherine with Friar Ange and reflect--The Liking of
Nymphs for Satyrs--An Alarm of Fire--M. d’Asterac in his Laboratory

XI. The Advent of Spring and its Effects--We visit Mosaide

XII. I take a Walk and meet Mademoiselle Catherine

XIII. Taken by M. d’Asterac to the Isle of Swans I listen to his
Discourse on Creation and Salamanders

XIV. Visit to Mademoiselle Catherine--The Row in the Street and
my Dismissal

XV. In the Library with M. Jerome Coignard--A Conversation on
Morals--Taken to M. d’Asterac’s Study-Salamanders again--
The Solar Powder--A Visit and its Consequences

XVI. Jahel comes to my Room--What the Abbe saw on the Stairs--His
Encounter with Mosaide

XVII. Outside Mademoiselle Catherine’s House--We are invited in by
M. d’Anquetil--The Supper--The Visit of the Owner and the
horrible Consequences

XVIII. Our return--We smuggle M. d’Anquetil in--M. d’Asterac on
Jealousy--M. Jerome Coignard in Trouble-What happened while
I was in the Laboratory--Jahel persuaded to elope

XIX. Our last Dinner at M. d’Asterac’s Table--Conversation of M.
Jerome Coignard and M. d’Asterac--A Message from Home--Catherine
in the Spittel--We are wanted for Murder-Our Flight--Jahel
causes me much Misery--Account of the Journey-The Abbe Coignard
on Towns--Jahel’s Midnight Visit--We are followed--The Accident
--M. Jerome Coignard is stabbed

XX. Illness of M. Jerome Coignard

XXI. Death of M. Jerome Coignard

XXII. Funeral and Epitaph

XXIII. Farewell to Jahel--Dispersal of the Party.

XXIV. I am pardoned and return to Paris--Again at the Queen
Pedauque--I go as Assistant to M. Blaizot--Burning of the
Castle of Sablons--Death of Mosaide and of M. d’Asterac.

XXV. I become a Bookseller--I have many learned and witty
Customers but none to equal the Abbe Jerome Coignard, D.D., M. A