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Автор: Warwick Deeping
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       Warwick Deeping

      Bertrand of Brittany

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066199340

       BOOK I

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       BOOK II

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       IX

       X

       XI

       XII

       XIII

       XIV

       XV

       XVI

       BOOK III

       XVII

       XVIII

       XIX

       XX

       XXI

       XXII

       XXIII

       XXIV

       XXV

       XXVI

       XXVII

       XXVIII

       XXIX

       XXX

       XXXI

       XXXII

       XXXIII

       XXXIV

       XXXV

       XXXVI

       XXXVII

       XXXVIII

       XXXIX

       XL

       XLI

       XLII

       XLIII

       XLIV

       XLV

       XLVI

      TO

      MY DEAR FRIEND

      JULIA ORD

      Bertrand of Brittany

      BOOK I

       Table of Contents

      YOUTH AND THE SILVER SWAN

       Table of Contents

      It had always been said in the Breton lands that Sieur Robert du Guesclin was a brave man, save in the presence of that noble lady, Jeanne de Malemains, his wife.

      Now Dame Jeanne was a handsome, black-browed woman with a resolute mouth and a full, white chin. The Norman apple-trees had lost their bloom, so sang the romancers, when Gleaquim by the sea had stolen her as the sunlight from Duke Rollo’s lands. The Lady Jeanne had brought no great dowry to her husband, save only her smooth and confident beauty, and the perilous blessings of a splendid pride. She had borne Sieur Robert children, fed them at her own breast as babes,