THE IRON ARROW TREVET : : : : OR : : : : JOCELYN THE CHAMPION
Daniel De Leon translation
A Tale of the Jacquerie
By EUGENE SUE
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL FRENCH BY
DANIEL DE LEON
NEW YORK LABOR NEWS COMPANY, 1906
Copyright, 1905, by the NEW YORK LABOR NEWS CO.
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
Etienne Marcel, John Maillart, William Caillet, Adam the Devil and Charles the Wicked, King of Navarre, are the five leading personages in this story. Their figures and actions, the virtues and foibles of the ones, the vices of the others, the errors of all, are drawn with strict historic accuracy, all the five being historic characters. Seeing the historic importance of the epoch in which they figured, and the types that these five men represent, the story of "The Iron Trevet; or, Jocelyn, the Champion" is more than an historic narrative, it is more than a treatise on the philosophy of history, it is a treatise on human nature, it is a compendium of lessons inestimable to whomsoever his or her good or evil genius throws into the clash of human currents, and to those who, though not themselves participants, still may wish to understand that which they are spectators of and which, some way or other, they are themselves affected by and, some way or other, are bound to either support or resist.
In a way, "The Iron Trevet; or, Jocelyn the Champion" is the uniquest of the series of brilliant stories that the genius of Eugene Sue has enriched the world with under the collective title of "The Mysteries of the People"—we can recall no other instance in which so much profound and practical instruction is so skillfully clad in the pleasing drapery of fiction, and one within so small a compass.
To America whose youthful years deprive her of historic perspective, this little story, or rather work, can not but be of service. To that vast English-speaking world at large, now throbbing with the pulse of awakening aspirations, this translation discloses another treasure trove, long and deliberately held closed to it in the wrappage of the foreign tongue in which the original appeared.
DANIEL DE LEON.
New York, April 13, 1904.
INDEX
Translator's Prefaceiii
Part I. The Seigniory of Nointel.
Chapter 1.The Tavern of Alison the Huffy10
Chapter 2.The Amende Honorable26
Chapter 3.The Tournament34
Chapter 4.The Judicial Combat39
Chapter 5.Sheet Lightenings50
Chapter 6.Prophecies and Premonitions58
Chapter 7.Wrecked Hearts65
Part II. The Regency of Normandy.
Chapter 1.The States General74
Chapter 2.Etienne Marcel77
Chapter 3.The Man of the Furred Cap83
Chapter 4.The Serpent Under the Grass97
Chapter 5.Charles the Wicked105
Chapter 6.The Meeting at the Cordeliers118
Chapter 7.Popular Justice126
Chapter 8."The Hour Has Sounded!"143
Part III. The Jacquerie.
Chapter 1.Captain Griffith and His Chaplain154
Chapter 2.The Fox's Burrow161
Chapter 3.The Castle of Chivry175
Chapter 4.Jacquerie! Jacquerie!180
Chapter 5.The Orville Bridge191
Chapter 6."On to Clermont!"207
Chapter 7.Clermont211
Part IV. John Maillart.
Chapter 1.The Wages of Envy228
Chapter 2.Last Day at Home239
Chapter 3.Darkening Shadows247
Chapter 4.Plotters Uncovered258
Chapter 5.The Gate of St. Antoine267
Epilogue270