The Gypsy Knights: A Tale of The Hundred Year War

a novella by John McLaughlin

"Seen as by a circling hawk, the walled cathedral town of Orleans spread for miles along the banks of the River Loire, its wood-and-clay buildings higgledy-piggledy strewn in random fashion, streets narrow and winding, roofs in places almost touching one another across narrow alleys.  Its obvious focus was the steepled cathedral building occupying its cleared central space, where the craftsmen’s booths and butcher shops lined the square, on a market day in the summer of 1365, Anno Domini."