Excerpt from Phaulcon the Adventurer, or the Europeans in the East: A Romantic Biography
The very kind reception given by the "Press" and the Public to "Will Adams, the first Englishman in Japan," induced me to try my hand upon another worthy, whose remarkable career appeared especially adapted for the purposes of historic fiction.
For the notion I am indebted to the Jesuit Fathers, D'Orleans, and Tachard, from whose works I have gleaned the outline or rather basis of my narrative. My chief object being, as in "Will Adams," to amuse, I have made free use of the materials; at the same time, as it was to Phaulcon's exertions in the cause of Christianity that he mamly owed both his rise and fall, I have, at every opportunity, endeavoured to illustrate the doings of his French contemporaries, who, at the earnest desire of Louis the Fourteenth, were struggling to raise the Cross and establish Empire in the East, an attempt, however, in which, like their predecessors in Japan some few years earlier, they signally failed.
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