The Scriptorium - Quote Project

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

Amidst the piles of ancient manuscripts, a small candle was burning. Holding a quill in his right hand, an old monk was stroking his grey beard. His ternished eyes were contemplating something nobody else could see, something far beyond the crucifix that was in front of him, above the door you had just entered. Softly breathing, he hadn't heard you approaching despite your heavy footsteps and the clinging of your chainmail.

Suddenly, when you gently put your hand on his shoulder, he came back to reality. With a toothless smile, he welcomed you in his cell.

"Hello My Lord, hello. What a pleasure to see a wealthy and powerful man such as yourself visiting me. Please take a seat, so I don't have to lean back to look at you in the face.

As you sit on a low stool, the old man puts his quill back in the the ink pot and nestles comfortably in his chair.

I am Fra Eochaid, and indeed I am pleased to see you, for I have some things I have to show you My Lord. Our small community is working hard to accomplish a task given to us by his Majesty Sergeï, King of this land.

He has asked me to coordinate the efforts of many fine and young people from distant land to record the words of our Time. Words of wisdom... Words of anger... Words of the earthly kings.... Words of our Holy Mother Church... so many Words.

Please take this book, read it, and let me know what you think...

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

This thread is the "clean" thread for the "Quote Project" Sergeï launched a few months ago. Alas, he had to see to other things. So he has bestowed upon me the honour of supervising this project in his name. You'll find here some quotes selected by the "Quote Knights" as being worthy of being included in the game. Please tell us what you think on THIS thread. Advice, questions, suggestions and applications are most welcome (that's why I'm creating this thread after all

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Thank you.

Eochaid

Now here come twenty quotes gathered by people from the French fora. I'd especially like to thanks Louvois, Sire Philippe, Louis Philippe and Oexmellin, as well as Captain Frakas and Syclax, for their priceless cooperation and kind work.

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#1: Arnaud Amaury, Siege of Béziers

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

Tuez les tous, Dieu reconnaîtra les siens!
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: Arnaud Amaury, Legate, July the 22nd 1209, unleashing the Crusaders upon the French town of Béziers
TRANSLATION:

Kill Them All, For The Lord Knoweth Them That Are His!

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#2: Jacques de Molay, The End of The Templars

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

S’en viendra un brief temps meschié
Sur cels qui nous damnent à tort
Dieu en vengera nostre mort.
Seingnors, ici, sachiez, sans tère,
Que tous cels qui nous sont contrères,
Por nous en auront à souffrir.
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: Jacques du Molay, March the 11th 1314, as quoted by chronicler Godefroy de Paris, in "Chroniques Métriques"
TRANSLATION:

Soon will come the time
For those who deceitfully condemn us,
When God will avenge our death.
My Lords, know and do not conceal,
That all those who are against us
Will suffer from our hand.

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#3: Jeanne of Arc, Rescuing Orléans

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

Rendez à la Pucelle ci envoyée de par Dieu les clés de toutes les bonnes villes que vous avez prises et violées en France... Je suis ci venue de par Dieu le roi du Ciel, corps pour corps, pour vous bouter hors de France
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: Joan of Arc, to the English troops besieging Orleans, 1429
TRANSLATION:

Hand over to the Virgin sent here by God the keys of all the cities you have submitted and violated in France... I have come here in the name of God the King of Heaven, face to face, to rout you out of France.

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#4: Philippe the Bold, Battle of Poitiers

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

Père, gardez-vous à droite ! Père, gardez-vous à gauche !
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: Philip the Bold to his father, King John II of France, during the last stand of the French royal family at Poitiers, 1356
TRANSLATION:

Father, watch your right! Father, watch your left!

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#5: Battle of Bouvine

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

L'an mil deus cens et dis et quatre
S'ala Ferrans au roi combattre
Ou mois que l'on soie l'aveine
Et au jour de la Magdelenne
Fu a Bouvines la bataille
Ou derompu ot mainte maille.
Li quens Ferans liës et pris
En fus amené a Paris
Et maint autre baron de pris
Qui puis ne virent leur païs.
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores, XXVI.
TRANSLATION:

In twelve forteen
Ferrand went to fight the King
In the month where the wheat is sowed
And on Sainte Magdelena's day
The battle took place at Bouvine
Where many men-at-arms were killed.
There Ferrand was captured and chained
And brought back to Paris
Along with many other barons
Who never again saw their country

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#6: Pope Urbanus II

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

C'est pourquoi je vous avertis et vous conjure, non en mon nom, mais au nom du Seigneur, vous les hérauts du Christ, d'engager par de fréquentes proclamations les Francs de tout rang, gens de pied et chevaliers, pauvres et riches, à s'empresser de secourir les adorateurs du Christ, pensant qu'il en est encore temps, et de chasser loin des régions soumises à notre foi la race impie des dévastateurs
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: Pope Urbanus II, Calling in Clermont for the First Crusade, as reported by Foucher de Chartres.
TRANSLATION:

In this account I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to persuade all people of whatever rank, foot-soldiers and knights, poor and rich, to carry aid promptly to those Christians and to destroy that vile race from the lands of our friends.

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#7: Pope Urbanus II

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

Quant à ceux qui partiront pour cette guerre sainte, s'ils perdent la vie, soit pendant la route sur terre, soit en traversant les mers, soit en combattant les Idolâtres, tous leurs péchés leur seront remis à l'heure même; cette faveur si précieuse, je la leur accorde en vertu de l'autorité dont je suis investi par Dieu même.
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: Pope Urbanus II, Calling in Clermont for the First Crusade, reported by Foucher de Chartres.
TRANSLATION:

All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested.

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#8: Pope Urbanus II

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

Que ai quelqu'un, entraîné par l'orgueil ou la cupidité, ose violer cette [Trève de Dieu], qu'il soit anathème en vertu de l'autorité de Dieu et des décrets de ce concile.
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: Pope Urbanus II, Calling in Clermont for the First Crusade, reported by Foucher de Chartres.
TRANSLATION:

And if anyone shall be led by his cupidity or arrogance to break [the Truce of God], by the authority of God and with the sanction of this council he shall be anathematized.

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#9: The Ceremony Of Knighting

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

Sainte Ordene de Chevalerie
Seroit en vous mal emploÿe,
car vous estes de mal loi,
Si n'avez baptesme ne foi
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: Hue de Tabarie, in "Ordène de Chevalerie", circa 1174-1187
TRANSLATION:

The Holy ceremony of Knighting
Would be wasted on you
For you are of little moral
If you're neither baptised nor faithful

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#10: The Death Of The King

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi!
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: Traditional formula used to mark the death of the King of France and the coronation of his heir.
TRANSLATION:

The King is dead, long live the King!

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#11: Warcry of the House Of Capet

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

Montjoie! Saint Denis!
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: War cry of the Kings of France
TRANSLATION:

UNTRANSLATABLE

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#13: The Beginning of the Hundred Year War

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

Sire Phelippe de Valoirs, par lonc-temps vous avons poursuivi par messages et en plusieurs autres manières, afin que féssiez raison à nous, et que vous nous rendissiez notre droit héritage du royaume de France, lequel vous nous avez de lonc-temps occupé à grand tort.
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: King Edouard III of England, in a letter to King Philip VI of France, July the 27th 1340
TRANSLATION:

Sir Philip of Valois, for a long time We have tried, by letters and other means, to have you acknowlegde our rights and rightful inheritance of Our Kingdom of France, which you have wrongly occupied for far too long.

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#14: The Beginning of the Hundred Year War

ORIGINAL QUOTE:

Notre entente est, quant bon nous samblera, de vous chacier hors de nostre royaume, à l'honneur de nous et de nostre majesté royale et au profit de notre peuple. Et, en ce faire, avons-nous ferme espérance en Jhésu-Christ dont tous biens nous viennent.
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: King Philip VI of France, in a letter to King Edward III of England, July the 30th 1340
TRANSLATION:

Our pleasure will be, whenever we will deem it necessary, to oust you from Our Kingdom, for our honour and the honour of our Royal Self, and to the benefit of our people. And doing so, we hold our faith in Jesus Christ, from whom we hold all our belongings

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#15: Lorris-en-Gâtinais

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: LATIN TRANSLATED TO FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

Il importe à la majesté royale de seccourir ceux qu'accable l'infortune et de leur dispenser le remède consolateur..
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: Phillip II August's chancellery, Charte de Lorris-en-Gâtinais, 1186
TRANSLATION:

It is his Royal Highness' duty to help those who undergo dire straits and to grant them the soothing remedy.

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#16: Jean Of Blanot

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: LATIN
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

Rex Franciae in regno suo princeps est.
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: Jean de Blanot, Abbey of Cluny, XIIIth Century
TRANSLATION:

The King of France is an Emperor within His Realm.

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#17: Louis VI, During The Battle Of Brémule

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

On ne prend pas le roi aux échecs!
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: Louis VI, August the 2Oth 1119, fighting his way through English lines to avoid being captured during the French defeat of Brémule.
TRANSLATION:

The King can be checked but not captured

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#18: Bernard Of Clairvaux

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

Votre œil est-il méchant parce que celui de Dieu est bon ? En mettant en cette bonté une criminelle confiance, vous devenez impudent contre la sagesse et audacieux contre la puissance.
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: Bernard de Clairvaux (1090-1153), Cistercian munk and theologist, creator of the Abbay of Clairvaux, initiator of the Second Crusade
TRANSLATION:

Is your eye Evil because the eye of God is Good? By blindly trusting this Goodness you become impudent towards wisdom and audacious against power

Eochaid · Apr 30, 2003

#19: "Son Of Roland"

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH
ORIGINAL QUOTE:

Sempres ferrai de Durendal granz colps;
Sanglant en ert li branz entresqu'a l'or.
Felun paien mar i vindrent as porz:
Jo vos plevis, tuz sunt jugez a mort.
ORIGINAL AUTHOR: "Song of Roland", French Geste, Leu LXXIII, Author Unknown, circa 1090. Roland, leader of Charlemagne's rear army, clutches his blade Durandal as he is ambushed by Vascons and Saracens in Roncevaux.
TRANSLATION:

And I will give, with Durandal, some mighty blows;
Blood will cover my blade up to the gold of my hilt
To their sorrow have the treacherous pagans come to their doom
For I swear that Death will strike them all

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