The Branding Needle; or, The Monastery of Charolles / A Tale of the First Communal Charter

by Eugène Sue

NEW YORK LABOR NEWS COMPANY, 1908

Copyright, 1908, by the
NEW YORK LABOR NEWS CO.

INDEX

[PART I. THE VALLEY OF CHAROLLES].
CHAP.	[I.]	THE SIGNAL	[5]
	[II.]	THE ANNUAL CELEBRATION	[15]
	[III.]	ON THE WATCH AT THE RIVER	[24]
	[IV.]	FREDEGONDE AND BRUNHILD	[27]
	[V.]	THE ASSAULT	[33]
[PART II. THE CASTLE OF BRUNHILD].
CHAP.	[I.]	THE TOWER-ROOM	[47]
	[II.]	QUEEN AND CONFIDANTE	[56]
	[III.]	THE ROYAL FAMILY	[66]
	[IV.]	QUEEN AND MAYOR OF THE PALACE	[69]
	[V.]	LOYSIK AND BRUNHILD	[79]
[PART III. THE CAMP OF CLOTAIRE II].
CHAP.	[I.]	WEEDING KINGLETS	[93]
	[II.]	AT BAY	[101]
	[III.]	THE DEATH OF BRUNHILD	[109]
		[EPILOGUE]	[120]

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

Semiramis, Brunhild, Catherine of Medicis constitute a trinity of historic women unique in their greatness. Their ambition was boundless, their intellectual powers matchless, the depths of their immorality unfathomable. As such they were the scourges of their respective ages. Queen Brunhild, a central figure in this superb story, may be said to be the Sixth Century heiress of the Semiramis of over ten centuries earlier, and the progenitor of the Catherine of nearly ten centuries later, who figures later in the sixteenth story of this series of Eugene Sue's of historic novels named by him The Mysteries of the People; or, History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages.