CM 1.4
Checkmate Part 1 Chapter 4
[edit | edit source]Plot Summary
[edit | edit source]Dates
[edit | edit source]16 August 1557
Characters
[edit | edit source]Fictional Characters
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- Adam Blacklock
- Archie Abernethy
- Austin Grey (referenced) Tristram Trusty
- Dame de Doubtance (referenced)
- Danny Hislop
- Francis Crawford of Lymond
- Georges Gaultier (referenced)
- Güzel (referenced)
- Jerott Blyth
- Kate Somerville (referenced)
- Man from Midculter (referenced)
- Marthe
- Philippa Somerville
- Richard Crawford Third Baron Crawford of Culter (referenced)
- The Schiatti
Non-Fictional Characters
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- Baron Nicolas de Polvilliers (referenced)
- Consulat de Lyon
- Duke de Guise (referenced)
- Marguerite de St André
- Piero Strozzi (referenced)
- Muscovy Company (referenced)
- Tsar Ivan IV (referenced)
- Prince Dmitri Vishnevetsky (referenced)
Locations
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- Berne (referenced)
- Blois (referenced)
- Bridge over the Rhône
- Bridge over the Saone
- Cathedral (referenced)
- Douai (referenced)
- Edinburgh (referenced)
- Fourvière
- Grand’Rue
- Hôtel de Gouvernement
- Hotel Gaultier
- Hôtel Schiatti (referenced)
- Lyon
- Mâcon (referenced)
- Maison Ronde
- Marseille (referenced)
- Metz (referenced)
- Montée St Barthélemy
- Petit Palais (referenced)
- Presqu’île
- Rhône
- Rue Berthet
- Rue de Garillan
- Rue Mercière
- Rue Tirecul
- Rue Tupin
- Russia (referenced)
- Saône
- Square of the Lannerie
- Traboules
- Turin (referenced)
- Vorobiovo (referenced)
Literature
[edit | edit source]- Nostradamus Quatrain: C7-Q28
- A little house well filled
- Ah, and who is he apart, marked out with sprays of olive and offering sacrifice?
- Au travail, on fait ce qu’on peut, mais à table, on se force
- Forgive! And never will I aft trespass
- If they place the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left
- Lest of an evil chick comes an evil bird
- Lethaeo perfuse papavera somno
- On touche toujours sur le cheval qui tire
- Puissant, proud, mighty, cruel and bloody
- Sum fra the bordello wald nocht byde Quhill that thai gatt the Spanyie Pockis?
- Tristram Trusty
- Where the spirite is, there is always summer
- Whereby presumption and arrogancy shall be withstanded
- Wrestling with ghosts, after the manner of the Antabatae
Other References
[edit | edit source]Quotes from Dunnett
[edit | edit source]- Philippa, Lymond: "She thinks, as a maiden lady, I should wear my hair down." - "As a maiden lady, you would wear anyone down."
- Philippa: "Your self-esteem has had a lifetime of steady attention."
- Philippa, Lymond: "I shall call you 'mon compère', as the King does the Constable. You haven’t enough artillery, have you?” -
“Against you or the Germans?”
Controversies
[edit | edit source]- Did Jerott love Marthe?
- Marthe's character
- Güzel's character
- Was Güzel good for Lymond?
- Jerott's character
- Philippa's meddling
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