Name: The Story of Viteau
Author: Frank R. Stockton
ISBN: 978-1330325391

The Story of Viteau

By Frank R. Stockton 20 Oct, 2020

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BY the side of a small stream, which ran through one of the most picturesque portions of the province of Burgundy, in France, there sat, on a beautiful day in early summer, two boys, who were brothers. They had been bathing in the stream, and now, having dressed, they were talking together on the bank. Raymond, the elder, was about fourteen years old, and his brother Louis was some eighteen months younger. In form and feature, and in general disposition and character, they were not unlike many of the boys of our day, and yet these two young fellows lived more than six hundred years ago. They were dressed in simple tunics, one green, one brown, and wore short breeches, dark-colored stockings, and rather clumsy shoes. The two brothers were very busily engaged in conversation, for they had a great deal to say to each other, and not much time to say it in. On the next day, Louis was going away from home, to be gone a long, long time. Raymond and Louis were the sons of the Countess of Viteau, whose chateau stood on a little eminence about half a mile away. Their father, the Count of Viteau, had been one of the most steadfast adherents and supporters of the Duke of Burgundy, in his endeavors to maintain the independence of his dukedom against the claims of the French crown, and had fallen in one of the battles between the Duke's followers and the army of the Regent, Queen Blanche, who, in those days, ruled France in the name of her son, the young King, Louis IX., afterward known as Louis the Just, or St. Louis. Less

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