The story is told by a Scotsman, one Norman Leslie, who, believing he has killed a fellow-student at St. Andrew’s, by a blow with a golf stick, flies to Prance, and there, in a land where at that time were many of his countrymen fighting against the English, he meets with many strange adventures by flood and field. Jeanne D’Avc, the gallant, unfortunate Puoelle, whom Englishmen, to their foul dishonour, were to allow to be burned, and whom Voltaire was later on to so malig nantly vilify, enters largely into the story.
