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First published: in
France by Editions de Trévise 1964
First published: in Great Britain 1965 by
William Heineman Ltd.
Facts & Trivia
French version 381 pages, chapters 19
English version 379 pages, chapters 19
translated by Jocasta Goodwin
translated into more than twenty languages
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Chapter Synopses
- Routes of Catherine
Film adaption in 1968
Catherine, Il suffit d'un amour
Director Bernard Borderie
Music by Michel Magne
Television-Serie in 1986
Catherine,Il
suffit d'un amour
Co-Production Antenne 2 - SFP
Director Marion Sarraut
Adaption by Juliette Benzoni & Jean Chatenet
Music by Robert Viger
Ballad of Catherine 1965
Text: Juliette Benzoni
Singer: Bernard Stéphane
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Catherine Legoix, daughter of a Parisian
goldsmith in the time
of the hundred Years War,is the victim of a
hopeless passion
for Arnaud de Montsalvy, prominent member of the
Armagnac
aristoracy, although she herself a favourite of the the
Duke of Burgundy, Philippe le Bon. He has arranged her marriage
to his
wealthy Treasurer, Garin de Brazey, and every
force in the
troubled times in which they live: hatred, war,
vengeance;
drives Catherine and Philippe together, keeps
her and Arnaud
apart.
But Catherine defies the gulf which seperates
Armagnac and
Burgundian and, driven by the blind love, she
travels the roads
of France and Burgundy:from Dijon to Bruges,
then to the
beleaqured city of Orleans, where Arnaud de
Montsalvy is
among the defending corps. There her path
crosses that of
the Maid herself, Jeane d'Arc; and later she
encounters an
enemy from her childhood, the so-called "Bucher
of Rouen"...
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Bishop Pierre Cauchon
alias Bishop of Beavais
...introducing the main characters in book 2....
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Catherine
de Brazey
Garin de Brazey
Sara
Loyse Legoix
Mathieu Gautherin
Landry Pigasse
Abbot of Saint.Seine
Abou-al-Khayr
Brother Etienne Charlot
Duke, Philippe of Burgundy
Jacques de Roussay
Ermengarde de Châteauvillain
Jean de Saint-Rémy
Jean van Eyck |
Arnaud de
Montsalvy
Jean de Xaintrailles
Raoul de Gaucourt
Jean de Dunois
Jeanne d'Arc
La Hire
Gilles de Rais
Fortépice
Queen Yolande d'Anjou
Georges de la Trémoille
Catherine de la Trémoille
Dame Nicole Son
Mâitre Jean Son
Bishop of Beauvais |
Memorable Quotes
"A woman like you
is made for love. I've been trying to din that into you
for months
now. So Arnaud is getting married, is he? So much for
that! You can take him as a
lover the moment this imbecile war is over...and be as
happy as you like...
Ermengarde de Châteauvillain to Catherine Chapter Three
"This was not the kind of souvenir I had
expected to take away with me my sweet...
It looks as it will be the biggest bump on the
head I ever had...the only one I shall
cherish, at all event"
Philippe of Burgundy to Catherine chapter
Four
"I shall always be glad I rescued you.
But there is nothing you can do for me, Catherine.
I am going to stay here in the Abbey. I have already
asked the Abbot to receive me as
a monk and he has agreed. He is a man after my own heart.
I shall be proud to obey him."
Landry Pigasse to Catherine Chapter Nine
"You were wonderful...but forbidden,
inaccessible to me...for ever! And I loved you,
I loved you like a madman I all became...
Garin de Brazey to Catherine Chapter Nine
"The most beautiful Lady of the West! That is
the name which he, whom they call the
Great Duke of the West, has been pleased to
bestow on me. Three years...Truly, Jean
there is no woman more lonely than I...
Catherine to Jean Van Eyck Chapter Ten
..."so Messire de Montsalvy felt he ought
to say farewell, did he? What an honour! What
an extraordinary mark of esteem from a man of
such tender pride!"
Catherine to Arnaud de Montsalvy Chapter
Thirteen
..."Arnaud, yours is the only respect I care
about. Have you really made up your mind
to hate me all your life?"
Catherine to Arnaud de Montsalvy Chapter Fifteen
"I haven't got the right to love you, Catherine,
because the souls of my ancestors
would rise up and condem me, but I do have the
right to make sure you are save
and well"!
Arnaud de Montsalvy to Catherine Chapter
Fifteen
" A Montsalvy, eh? Michel's brother, I suppose!
And you really thought I'd believe
your little story? Do you take me for a
simpleton, or do you think I've lost my me-
mory? Release her? Your accomplice?...Do you
think I would, knowing how devoted
she and her family have always been to the
Montsalvy's?"
Bishop of Beauvais (Pierre Cauchon) to
Arnaud Chapter Nineteen
...You don't know what you have just done for me,
Bishop. Otherwise I think you
would have thought better of it. Catherine, my
love...my one and only love...
can you ever forgive me?
Arnaud de Montsalvy to Bishop Beauvais and
Catherine Chapter Nineteen
...I have nothing to forgive you...because now,
at last, I can tell you that I love you...
Catherine to Arnaud de Montsalvy Chapter
Nineteen
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