Part 3, The Hand of God; Chapter's 1-3 Summary and Analysis

The first three chapters of Part Three; "The Hand of God" begins with Chapter One "The Rue des Bourdonnais"in which we see Beatrice d'Hirson, the Lady in Waiting to the Mahaut, visiting the street of the candle makers. Here we discover that this famous street is well known for its physicians, doctors and crafts people - and also for acts of alchemy.

Beatrice goes to a particular shop that she knows well, which we see is a candle maker's shop. Here she meets the disfigured and disabled Everard; an ex Templar Knight who was taken in by the candle maker to work in the back rooms. Beatrice encourages him to join her in her vendetta against the Secretary General Nogaret who killed her mistresses daughters. She offers up...