FOBO - Gaskonští Kadeti (page 1/2)

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This sketch of a medieval castle was used as an ornament or tail-piece at the end of a chapter. It features a round tower with a pointed roof, a wall with batlements, and [...] [more...] [$]

Battle of Knights

Men are being nasty to one another, as men are wont to do, some on foot and some riding horses, in this close mêlée or fight. [more...] [$]

Front Cover

This book cover is a grey-green buckram with gold lettering, and a red-and-black picture of cavaliers swashbuckling away at one another on a bridge with a blazing fire in the background. [more...] [$]

Title Page, Gaskonští Kadeti

The title page is in Czech and has a library stamp. There is a sketch of maybe fifteen men wearing chain mail and round helmets fighting with sworeds in a close mêlée. [more...] [$]

By the castle tower

Two men with rapiers (long thin swords) face one another at the foot of a castle tower; there are dead bodies on the ground, for there has been a battle. In the background are men wearing cavalier hats. [more...] [$]

Some illustrations from Gaskonští Kadeti, which is, Soldiers of Gascony, by Henri de Gorsse and Josaph Jacquin.

This is a Czech translation of the original French, Les Cadets de Gascogne, pubished by Hachette in 1905, in the swashbucking spirit of Cyrano de Bergerac and The Three Muskateers.

Henri de Gorsse (1868‒1936) was a very prolific French writer. He produced this book in the same year as one on the young Cyrano de Bergerac, also co-authored by Joseph Jacquin.

The edition that i have came from a trip to Prague, and was illustrated by H. Vogel, presumably Hugo Vogel (1855‒1934), German painter of historical scenes.

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Gaskonští Kadeti (page 1/2)

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