"Those two people who had this long interview upon a March afternoon of 1314, in the Palace of Westminster, could not know that, as a result of their actions, they would....become the artisans of a war between the kingdoms of France and England which would last more than a hundred years." Part 1, Chapter 1, Page 28.

"'I am guilty,' went on Jacques du Molay, 'only of having yielded to your promises, your threats and your tortures. I protest, in the name of God who hears us, that the Order of which I am the grand Master is innocent.'" Part 1, Chapter 4, Page 58.

"Was Marguerite alone? Was she daring to receive him in her room, without witnesses, when the King of Navarre might be in the vicinity?" Part 1, Chapter 5, Page 63.

"Valois could not stomach the fact, grandson of Saint Louis as he was, that the kingdom should be governed by...