Introduction
_ The Queen Pedauque
by Anatole France
Translation of La rô；tisserie de la reine Pé；dauque
Translated by JOS. A. V. STRITZKO
Introduction by JAMES BRANCH CABELL
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INTRODUCTION
What one first notes about _The Queen Pedauque_ is the fact that in this ironic and subtle book is presented a story which, curiously enough, is remarkable for its entire innocence of subtlety and irony. Abridge the "plot" into a synopsis, and you will find your digest to be what is manifestly the outline of a straightforward, plumed romance by the elder Dumas.
Indeed, Dumas would have handled the "strange surprising adventures" of Jacques Tournebroche to a nicety, if only Dumas had ever thought to have his collaborators write this brisk tale, wherein d‘Astarac and Tournebroche and Mosaide display, even now, a noticeable something in common with the Balsamo and Gilbert and Althotas of the _Memoires d‘un Medecin_. One foresees, to be sure, that, with the twin-girthed

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