報夫仇

Jane de Belleville was a French noblewoman. In 1343, when her husband, Oliver, was beheaded by the king of France on unauthenticated suspicion of treason, Jane sold off her estates, bought three warships, and took to the English Channel. She proceeded to hunt down French ships, and was utterly merciless with the crews of the ships she captured.

Jane also made several descents on Normandy, whose inhabitants saw this beautiful woman, with a sword in one hand and a torch in another, eyeing with pleasure all the horrors of her misplaced revenge.

In 1356, Jane retired from piracy to marry an English lieutenant. She eventually returned to France, and in 1359 died there, near the land she and her beloved Oliver had once owned.

簡．德貝勒維爾是個法國貴婦。一三四三年，她丈夫奧立佛在未能證實的叛國嫌疑下，被法王斬首。簡賣去所有房地產，買了三艘戰船，開往英倫海峽，專門掠奪法國船隻，對被俘虜的船員，手辣心狠。

簡還幾次襲擊諾曼第。當地居民見到這個美麗女郎一手執劍，一手持火把，望着找錯了對象的恐怖報復行為，沾沾自喜。

一三五六年，簡終止其海盜生涯，和英國一名上尉結婚。她後來回到法國，一三五九年，在她和她心愛的奧立佛一度擁有的土地附近，溘然去世。

【附注】 Descent的動詞是 descend，兩字都可解作「襲擊」。

（古德明）