If you receive an answer, you will bring it you know where; if no reply is sent, you will meet me this evening with a Petronel at the spot I showed you, and from which I have just come."
"Marguerite de Valois"
Alexandre Dumas
At midnight he is to come here for me with a good Petronel.
"Marguerite de Valois"
Alexandre Dumas
It was, it struck me, from a Petronel, or some small piece of ordnance such as merchantmen carried in those days.
"Hurricane Hurry"
W.H.G. Kingston