CM 2.1
Checkmate Part 2 Chapter 1
[edit | edit source]Plot Summary
[edit | edit source]Dates
[edit | edit source]Late August, early September 1557:
- Lymond arrives at Paris 5 days before the walk of the penitents
- Five days after the walk, on a Saturday at the start of September (4 September 1557), Jerott and Marthe arrive,
- which is again one week after Saint-Quentin had surrendered on 27 August 1557
Fictional Characters
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- Adam Blacklock (referenced)
- Alec Guthrie (referenced)
- Archie Abernethy
- Dame de Doubtance (referenced)
- Danny Hislop (referenced)
- Fergie Hoddim (referenced)
- Francis Crawford of Lymond
- Güzel (referenced)
- Jerott Blyth
- Marthe
- Nick Applegarth (referenced)
- Philippa Somerville (referenced)
- The Schiatti (referenced)
Non-Fictional Characters
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- Constable of France (referenced)
- Polvilliers (referenced)
- Batiste, an Italian engineer
- Catherine d’Albon
- Catherine de Medicis
- Cardinal of Lorraine (referenced)
- Chaulnes (referenced)
- Comtesse de Laval (referenced)
- Colonel Rekrod
- D’Amboise (referenced)
- D’Humières (referenced)
- De Bourdillon (referenced)
- Duke de Guise (referenced)
- Duke de Nevers (referenced)
- Duke of Savoy (referenced)
- Eustache du Bellay, Bishop of Paris
- Four Marys (referenced)
- Francis, Dauphin of France (referenced)
- Henri II
- Soranzo, the Venetian Ambassador
- Le Maçon (referenced)
- Jean Maugué (referenced)
- Knights Hospitaller of St John (referenced)
- M. de Thermes (referenced)
- Madame de Brêne
- Madame de Valentinois (referenced)
- Maître d’Arlbalétriers Master of Crossbowmen
- Marguerite de St André (referenced)
- Marie de Guise (referenced)
- Marshal de St André (referenced)
- Mary Fleming
- Mary I of England (referenced)
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Master of Artillery of Paris
- Montigny (referenced)
- Philip of Spain (referenced)
- Piero Strozzi (referenced)
- Pope Paul IV
- Prévôt de Paris
- Prévôt Général des Monnaies et Maréchaussées
- Salignac (referenced)
- Sancerre (referenced)
- Sepois (referenced)
- St Laurent (referenced)
Locations
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- Amiens (referenced)
- Arsenal
- Bastille
- Blois (referenced)
- Bridges of the Seine
- Cambrai (referenced)
- Châtelet (referenced)
- Chaulny (referenced)
- Collège du Plessis (referenced)
- Compiègne (referenced)
- Corbie (referenced)
- England (referenced)
- St Anthony quarter
- Guise (referenced)
- Castle of Ham (referenced)
- Hôtel Bétourné (referenced)
- Hôtel de Rochepot
- Hôtel de St André
- Hôtel des Tournelles
- House of Doubtance (referenced)
- La Fère (referenced)
- La Guiche (referenced)
- Laon (referenced)
- Le Catelet (referenced)
- Louvre
- Low Countries (referenced)
- Lyon (referenced)
- Marché aux Porceaux (referenced)
- Notre-Dame
- Orléans (referenced)
- Paris
- Parvis of Notre-Dame
- Péronne (referenced)
- Picardy (referenced)
- Piedmont (referenced)
- Porte de Montmartre
- Porte Saint-Denis
- Pré au Clercs
- Priory of Saint-Lazarus
- Rome (referenced)
- Rue d’Orléans
- Rue de la Vannerie
- Rue des Marmousets
- Rue du Foin (referenced)
- Rue Poirée (referenced)
- Rue St Jacques (referenced)
- Sainte-Chapelle
- Saint-Quentin (referenced)
- Seine
- Séjour du Roi
- Sevigny (referenced)
- Soissons (referenced)
- St Dizier (referenced)
- Tour de Billy
- Troy (referenced)
- University quarter
- Zanzibar (referenced)
Literature
[edit | edit source]- Nostradamus Quatrain: C4-Q52
- Priés pour l’âme de Jean Maugué
- Una miseria di speranza piena
- Has thou, Foly, ane wife at hame?
- C’est du vin de Montmartre
- Le bouclier de la foi
- Li tens, qui s’en vait nuit et jor
- As a skin bottel in the smoke
Other References
[edit | edit source]Quotes from Dunnett
[edit | edit source]- Lymond: "How can I expect my friends to forgive me?" Jerott: "I shouldn't worry. You haven't got any."
Controversies
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