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Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Alexandre Dumas, [père]

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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG
WORKS OF

ALEXANDRE DUMAS, [père]

Compiled by David Widger

CONTENTS

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##  THE BLACK TULIP

##  THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

##  THE THREE MUSKETEERS

##  TEN YEARS LATER

##  TWENTY YEARS AFTER

##  THE VICOMTE DE BRAGELONNE

##  TEN YEARS LATER

##  LOUISE DE LA VALLIERE

##  THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK

##  CELEBRATED CRIMES, 18 VOLUMES

##  THE COMPANIONS OF JEHU

##  CHICOT THE JESTER

THE QUEEN'S NECKLACE

##  THE CONSPIRATORS

##  THE PRUSSIAN TERROR

##  CAPTAIN PAUL

##  THE SICILIAN BANDIT

THE CORSICAN BROTHERS

##  THE HERO OF THE PEOPLE

##  THE MESMERIST'S VICTIM

##  THE COUNTESS OF CHARNY

##  THE ROYAL LIFE GUARD

##  TAKING THE BASTILE

BALSAMO, THE MAGICIAN

##  LAST VENDÉE

##  MES MEMOIRS, Vol. I.

##  MY MEMOIRS, Vol. II.

##  MY MEMOIRS, Vol. III.

##  MY MEMOIRS, Vol. IV.

##  MY MEMOIRS, Vol. V.

##  MY MEMOIRS, Vol. VI.

##  THE WOLF-LEADER

THE WAR OF WOMEN I.

THE WAR OF WOMEN II.

TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES

THE BLACK TULIP

By Alexandre Dumas

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 | A Grateful People
Chapter 2 | The Two Brothers
Chapter 3 | The Pupil of John de Witt
Chapter 4 | The Murderers
Chapter 5 | The Tulip-fancier and his Neighbour
Chapter 6 | The Hatred of a Tulip-fancier
Chapter 7 | The Happy Man makes Acquaintance with Misfortune
Chapter 8 | An Invasion
Chapter 9 | The Family Cell
Chapter 10 | The Jailer’s Daughter
Chapter 11 | Cornelius van Baerle’s Will
Chapter 12 | The Execution
Chapter 13 | What was going on all this Time in the Mind of one of the Spectators
Chapter 14 | The Pigeons of Dort
Chapter 15 | The Little Grated Window
Chapter 16 | Master and Pupil
Chapter 17 | The First Bulb
Chapter 18 | Rosa’s Lover
Chapter 19 | The Maid and the Flower
Chapter 20 | The Events which took place during those Eight Days
Chapter 21 | The Second Bulb
Chapter 22 | The Opening of the Flower
Chapter 23 | The Rival
Chapter 24 | The Black Tulip changes Masters
Chapter 25 | The President van Systens
Chapter 26 | A Member of the Horticultural Society
Chapter 27 | The Third Bulb
Chapter 28 | The Hymn of the Flowers
Chapter 29 | In which Van Baerle, before leaving Loewestein, settles Accounts with Gryphus
Chapter 30 | Wherein the Reader begins to guess the Kind of Execution that was awaiting Van Baerle
Chapter 31 | Haarlem
Chapter 32 | A Last Request
Chapter 33 | Conclusion

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

VOLUME ONE
Chapter 1 | Marseilles -- The Arrival
Chapter 2 | Father and Son
Chapter 3 | The Catalans
Chapter 4 | Conspiracy
Chapter 5 | The Marriage Feast
Chapter 6 | The Deputy Procureur du Roi
Chapter 7 | The Examination
Chapter 8 | The Château d’If
Chapter 9 | The Evening of the Betrothal
Chapter 10 | The King’s Closet at the Tuileries
Chapter 11 | The Corsican Ogre
Chapter 12 | Father and Son
Chapter 13 | The Hundred Days
Chapter 14 | The Two Prisoners
Chapter 15 | Number 34 and Number 27
Chapter 16 | A Learned Italian
Chapter 17 | The Abbé’s Chamber
Chapter 18 | The Treasure
Chapter 19 | The Third Attack
Chapter 20 | The Cemetery of the Château d’If
Chapter 21 | The Island of Tiboulen
Chapter 22 | The Smugglers
Chapter 23 | The Island of Monte Cristo
Chapter 24 | The Secret Cave
Chapter 25 | The Unknown
Chapter 26 | The Pont du Gard Inn
Chapter 27 | The Story
VOLUME TWO
Chapter 28 | The Prison Register
Chapter 29 | The House of Morrel & Son
Chapter 30 | The Fifth of September
Chapter 31 | Italy: Sinbad the Sailor
Chapter 32 | The Waking
Chapter 33 | Roman Bandits
Chapter 34 | The Colosseum
Chapter 35 | La Mazzolata
Chapter 36 | The Carnival at Rome
Chapter 37 | The Catacombs of Saint Sebastian
Chapter 38 | The Rendezvous
Chapter 39 | The Guests
Chapter 40 | The Breakfast
Chapter 41 | The Presentation
Chapter 42 | Monsieur Bertuccio
Chapter 43 | The House at Auteuil
Chapter 44 | The Vendetta
Chapter 45 | The Rain of Blood
Chapter 46 | Unlimited Credit
Chapter 47 | The Dappled Grays
VOLUME THREE
Chapter 48 | Ideology
Chapter 49 | Haydée
Chapter 50 | The Morrel Family
Chapter 51 | Pyramus and Thisbe
Chapter 52 | Toxicology
Chapter 53 | Robert le Diable
Chapter 54 | A Flurry in Stocks
Chapter 55 | Major Cavalcanti
Chapter 56 | Andrea Cavalcanti
Chapter 57 | In the Lucern Patch
Chapter 58 | M. Noirtier de Villefort
Chapter 59 | The Will
Chapter 60 | The Telegraph
Chapter 61 | How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice
Chapter 62 | Ghosts
Chapter 63 | The Dinner
Chapter 64 | The Beggar
Chapter 65 | A Conjugal Scene
Chapter 66 | Matrimonial Projects
Chapter 67 | The Office of the King’s Attorney
Chapter 68 | A Summer Ball
Chapter 69 | The Inquiry
Chapter 70 | The Ball
Chapter 71 | Bread and Salt
Chapter 72 | Madame de Saint-Méran
Chapter 73 | The Promise
VOLUME FOUR
Chapter 74 | The Villefort Family Vault
Chapter 75 | A Signed Statement
Chapter 76 | Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger
Chapter 77 | Haydée
Chapter 78 | We hear From Yanina
Chapter 79 | The Lemonade
Chapter 80 | The Accusation
Chapter 81 | The Room of the Retired Baker
Chapter 82 | The Burglary
Chapter 83 | The Hand of God
Chapter 84 | Beauchamp
Chapter 85 | The Journey
Chapter 86 | The Trial
Chapter 87 | The Challenge
Chapter 88 | The Insult
Chapter 89 | The Night
Chapter 90 | The Meeting
Chapter 91 | Mother and Son
Chapter 92 | The Suicide
Chapter 93 | Valentine
Chapter 94 | Maximilian’s Avowal
Chapter 95 | Father and Daughter
VOLUME FIVE
Chapter 96 | The Contract
Chapter 97 | The Departure for Belgium
Chapter 98 | The Bell and Bottle Tavern
Chapter 99 | The Law
Chapter 100 | The Apparition
Chapter 101 | Locusta
Chapter 102 | Valentine
Chapter 103 | Maximilian
Chapter 104 | Danglars’ Signature
Chapter 105 | The Cemetery of Père-Lachaise
Chapter 106 | Dividing the Proceeds
Chapter 107 | The Lions’ Den
Chapter 108 | The Judge
Chapter 109 | The Assizes
Chapter 110 | The Indictment
Chapter 111 | Expiation
Chapter 112 | The Departure
Chapter 113 | The Past
Chapter 114 | Peppino
Chapter 115 | Luigi Vampa’s Bill of Fare
Chapter 116 | The Pardon
Chapter 117 | The Fifth of October

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

First Volume of the d'Artagnan Series

By Alexandre Dumas, Pere

CONTENTS

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER

2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE

3 THE AUDIENCE

4 THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS

5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS

6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII

7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS

8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE

9 D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF

10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS

12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM

13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX

14 THE MAN OF MEUNG

15 MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD

16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL

17 BONACIEUX AT HOME

18 LOVER AND HUSBAND

19 PLAN OF CAMPAIGN

20 THE JOURNEY

21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER

22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON

23 THE RENDEZVOUS

24 THE PAVILION

25 PORTHOS

26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS

27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS

28 THE RETURN

29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS

30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN

31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH

32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER

33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS

34 IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF

35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID

36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE

37 MILADY'S SECRET

38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT

39 A VISION

40 A TERRIBLE VISION

41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE

42 THE ANJOU WINE

43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT

44 THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES

45 A CONJUGAL SCENE

46 THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS

47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS

48 A FAMILY AFFAIR

49 FATALITY

50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER

51 OFFICER

52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY

53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY

54 CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY

55 CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY

56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY

57 MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY

58 ESCAPE

59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628

60 IN FRANCE

61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE

62 TWO VARIETIES OF DEMONS

63 THE DROP OF WATER

64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK

65 TRIAL

66 EXECUTION

67 CONCLUSION

EPILOGUE

THE YEARS LATER

Volume I.
CHAPTER 1. | The Letter.
CHAPTER 2. | The Messenger.
CHAPTER 3. | The Interview.
CHAPTER 4. | Father and Son.
CHAPTER 5. | In which Something will be said of Cropoli and of a Great Unknown Painter.
CHAPTER 6. | The Unknown.
CHAPTER 7. | Parry.
CHAPTER 8. | What his Majesty King Louis XIV. was at the Age of Twenty-Two
CHAPTER 9. | In which the Unknown of the Hostelry of Les Medici loses his Incognito.
CHAPTER 10. | The Arithmetic of M. de Mazarin
CHAPTER 11. | Mazarin's Policy
CHAPTER 12. | The King and the Lieutenant
CHAPTER 13. | Mary de Mancini
CHAPTER 14. | In which the King and the Lieutenant each give Proofs of Memory
CHAPTER 15. | The Proscribed
CHAPTER 16. | "Remember!"
CHAPTER 17. | In which Aramis is sought and only Bazin is found
CHAPTER 18. | In which D'Artagnan seeks Porthos, and only finds Mousqueton
CHAPTER 19. | What D'Artagnan went to Paris for
CHAPTER 20. | Of the Society which was formed in the Rue des Lombards, at the Sign of the Pilon d'Or
CHAPTER 21. | In which D'Artagnan prepares to travel for the Firm of Planchet and Company
CHAPTER 22. | D'Artagnan travels for the House of Planchet and Company
CHAPTER 23. | In which the Author, very unwillingly, is forced to write a Little History
CHAPTER 24. | The Treasure
CHAPTER 25. | The March
CHAPTER 26. | Heart and Mind
CHAPTER 27. | The Next Day
CHAPTER 28. | Smuggling
CHAPTER 29. | In which D'Artagnan begins to fear he has placed his Money and that of Planchet in the Sinking Fund
CHAPTER 30. | The Shares of Planchet and Company rise again to Par
CHAPTER 31. | Monk reveals himself
CHAPTER 32. | Athos and D'Artagnan meet once more at the Hostelry of the Corne du Cerf
CHAPTER 33. | The Audience.
CHAPTER 34. | Of the Embarrassment of Riches
CHAPTER 35. | On the Canal
CHAPTER 36. | How D'Artagnan drew, as a Fairy would have done, a Country-seat from a Deal Box
CHAPTER 37. | How D'Artagnan regulated the "Assets" of the Company before he established its "Liabilities"
CHAPTER 38. | In which it is seen that the French Grocer had already been established in the Seventeenth Century
CHAPTER 39. | Mazarin's Gaming Party
CHAPTER 40. | An Affair of State
CHAPTER 41. | The Recital
CHAPTER 42. | In which Mazarin becomes Prodigal
CHAPTER 43. | Guenaud
CHAPTER 44. | Colbert
CHAPTER 45. | Confession of a Man of Wealth
CHAPTER 46. | The Donation
CHAPTER 47. | How Anne of Austria gave one Piece of Advice to Louis XIV., and how M. Fouquet gave him another.
CHAPTER 48. | Agony
CHAPTER 49. | The First Appearance of Colbert
CHAPTER 50. | The First Day of the Royalty of Louis XIV
CHAPTER 51. | A Passion
CHAPTER 52. | D'Artagnan's Lesson
CHAPTER 53. | The King
CHAPTER 54. | The Houses of M. Fouquet
CHAPTER 55. | The Abbe Fouquet
CHAPTER 56. | M. de la Fontaine's Wine
CHAPTER 57. | The Gallery of Saint-Mande
CHAPTER 58. | Epicureans
CHAPTER 59. | A Quarter of an Hour's Delay
CHAPTER 60. | Plan of Battle
CHAPTER 61. | The Cabaret of the Image-de-Notre-Dame
CHAPTER 62. | Vive Colbert!
CHAPTER 63. | How M. d'Eymeris's Diamond passed into the Hands of M. D'Artagnan.
CHAPTER 64. | Of the Notable Difference D'Artagnan finds between Monsieur the Intendant and Monsieur the Superintendent
CHAPTER 65. | Philosophy of the Heart and Mind
CHAPTER 66. | The Journey
CHAPTER 67. | How D'Artagnan became acquainted with a Poet, who had turned Printer for the sake of printing his own Verses
CHAPTER 68. | D'Artagnan continues his Investigations
CHAPTER 69. | In which the Reader, no doubt, will be as astonished as D'Artagnan was to meet an Old Acquaintance
CHAPTER 70. | Wherein the Ideas of D'Artagnan, at first strangely clouded, begin to clear up a little.
CHAPTER 71. | A Procession at Vannes
CHAPTER 72. | The Grandeur of the Bishop of Vannes
CHAPTER 73. | In which Porthos begins to be sorry for having come with D'Artagnan
CHAPTER 74. | In which D'Artagnan makes all Speed, Porthos snores, and Aramis counsels
CHAPTER 75. | In which Monsieur Fouquet acts
CHAPTER 76. | In which D'Artagnan finishes by at length placing his Hand upon his Captain's Commission
CHAPTER 77. | A Lover and his Mistress
CHAPTER 78. | In which we at length see the true Heroine of this History appear
CHAPTER 79. | Malicorne and Manicamp
CHAPTER 80. | Manicamp and Malicorne
CHAPTER 81. | The Courtyard of the Hotel Grammont
CHAPTER 82. | The Portrait of Madame
CHAPTER 83. | Havre
CHAPTER 84. | At Sea
CHAPTER 85. | The Tents
CHAPTER 86. | Night
CHAPTER 87. | From Havre to Paris
CHAPTER 88. | An Account of what the Chevalier de Lorraine thought of Madame
CHAPTER 89. | A Surprise for Madame de Montalais
CHAPTER 90. | The Consent of Athos
CHAPTER 91. | Monsieur becomes jealous of the Duke of Buckingham
CHAPTER 92. | Forever!
CHAPTER 93. | King Louis XIV. does not think Mademoiselle de la Valliere either rich enough or pretty enough
CHAPTER 94. | Sword-thrusts in the Water
CHAPTER 95. | Sword-thrusts in the Water (concluded)
CHAPTER 96. | Baisemeaux de Montlezun
CHAPTER 97. | The King's Card-table
CHAPTER 98. | M. Baisemeaux de Montlezun's Accounts
CHAPTER 99. | The Breakfast at Monsieur de Baisemeaux's
CHAPTER 100. | The Second Floor of la Bertaudiere
CHAPTER 101. | The Two Friends
CHAPTER 102. | Madame de Belliere's Plate
CHAPTER 103. | The Dowry
CHAPTER 104. | Le Terrain de Dieu

TWENTY YEARS AFTER

Second Volume of the d'Artagnan Series

1910

By Alexandre Dumas, Pere

CONTENTS

1.

The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu.

2.

A Nightly Patrol.

3.

Dead Animosities.

4.

Anne of Austria at the Age of Forty-six.

5.

The Gascon and the Italian.

6.

D'Artagnan in his Fortieth Year.

7.

Touches upon the Strange Effects a Half-pistole may have.

8.

D'Artagnan, Going to a Distance to discover Aramis.

9.

The Abbe D'Herblay.

10.

Monsieur Porthos du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds.

11.

Wealth does not necessarily produce Happiness.

12.

Porthos was Discontented with his Condition.

13.

Two Angelic Faces.

14.

The Castle of Bragelonne.

15.

Athos as a Diplomatist.

16.

The Duc de Beaufort.

17.

Duc de Beaufort amused his Leisure Hours in the Donjon of Vincennes.

18.

Grimaud begins his Functions.

19.

Pates made by the Successor of Father Marteau are described.

20.

One of Marie Michon's Adventures.

21.

The Abbe Scarron.

22.

Saint Denis.

23.

One of the Forty Methods of Escape of the Duc de Beaufort.

24.

The timely Arrival of D'Artagnan in Paris.

25.

An Adventure on the High Road.

26.

The Rencontre.

27.

The four old Friends prepare to meet again.

28.

The Place Royale.

29.

The Ferry across the Oise.

30.

Skirmishing.

31.

The Monk.

32.

The Absolution.

33.

Grimaud Speaks.

34.

On the Eve of Battle.

35.

A Dinner in the Old Style.

36.

A Letter from Charles the First.

37.

Cromwell's Letter.

38.

Henrietta Maria and Mazarin.

39.

How, sometimes, the Unhappy mistake Chance for Providence.

40.

Uncle and Nephew.

41.

Paternal Affection.

42.

Another Queen in Want of Help.

43.

In which it is proved that first Impulses are oftentimes the best.

44.

Te Deum for the Victory of Lens.

45.

The Beggar of St. Eustache.

46.

The Tower of St. Jacques de la Boucherie.

47.

The Riot.

48.

The Riot becomes a Revolution.

49.

Misfortune refreshes the Memory.

50.

The Interview.

51.

The Flight.

52.

The Carriage of Monsieur le Coadjuteur.

53.

How D'Artagnan and Porthos earned by selling Straw.

54.

In which we hear Tidings of Aramis.

55.

The Scotchman.

56.

The Avenger.

57.

Oliver Cromwell.

58.

Jesus Seigneur.

59.

Noble Natures never lose Courage, nor good Stomachs their Appetites.

60.

Respect to Fallen Majesty.

61.

D'Artagnan hits on a Plan.

62.

London.

63.

The Trial.

64.

Whitehall.

65.

The Workmen.

66.

Remember!

67.

The Man in the Mask.

68.

Cromwell's House.

69.

Conversational.

70.

The Skiff "Lightning."

71.

Port Wine.

72.

End of the Port Wine Mystery.

73.

Fatality.

74.

How Mousqueton had a Narrow Escape of being eaten.

75.

The Return.

76.

The Ambassadors.

77.

The three Lieutenants of the Generalissimo.

78.

The Battle of Charenton.

79.

The Road to Picardy.

80.

The Gratitude of Anne of Austria.

81.

Cardinal Mazarin as King.

82.

Precautions.

83.

Strength and Sagacity.

84.

Strength and Sagacity--Continued.

85.

The Oubliettes of Cardinal Mazarin.

86.

Conferences.

87.

Thinking that Porthos will be at last a Baron, and D'Artagnan a Captain.

88.

Shows how with Threat and Pen more is effected than by the Sword.

89.

Difficult for Kings to return to the Capitals of their Kingdoms.

90.

Conclusion.

THE VICOMTE DE BRAGELONNE

This Begins the Final Volume of the D'Artagnan Series

By Alexandre Dumas, Pere

CONTENTS

Original Transcriber's Note:

Chapter I. The Letter.

Chapter II. The Messenger.

Chapter III. The Interview.

Chapter IV. Father and Son.

Chapter V. In which Something will be said of Cropoli.

Chapter VI. The Unknown.

Chapter VII. Parry.

Chapter VIII. What his Majesty King Louis XIV. was at the Age of Twenty-Two.

Chapter IX. In which the Unknown of the Hostelry of Les Medici loses his Incognito.

Chapter X. The Arithmetic of M. de Mazarin.

Chapter XI. Mazarin's Policy.

Chapter XII. The King and the Lieutenant.

Chapter XIII. Mary de Mancini.

Chapter XIV. In which the King and the Lieutenant each give Proofs of Memory.

Chapter XV. The Proscribed.

Chapter XVI. "Remember!"

Chapter XVII. In which Aramis is sought, and only Bazin is found.

Chapter XVIII. In which D'Artagnan seeks Porthos, and only finds Mousqueton.

Chapter XIX. What D'Artagnan went to Paris for.

Chapter XX. Of the Society which was formed in the Rue des Lombards.

Chapter XXI. In which D'Artagnan prepares to travel.

Chapter XXII. D'Artagnan travels for the House of Planchet and Company.

Chapter XXIII. In which the Author is forced to write a Little History.

Chapter XXIV. The Treasure.

Chapter XXV. The Marsh.

Chapter XXVI. Heart and Mind.

Chapter XXVII. The Next Day.

Chapter XXVIII. Smuggling.

Chapter XXIX. Fear he has placed his Money and that of Planchet in the Sinking Fund.

Chapter XXX. The Shares of Planchet and Company rise again to Par.

Chapter XXXI. Monk reveals Himself.

Chapter XXXII. Athos and D'Artagnan meet once more at the Hostelry of the Corne du Cerf.

Chapter XXXIII. The Audience.

Chapter XXXIV. Of the Embarrassment of Riches.

Chapter XXXV. On the Canal.

Chapter XXXVI. How D'Artagnan drew a Country-Seat from a Deal Box.

Chapter XXXVII. How D'Artagnan regulated the "Assets" of the Company."

Chapter XXXVIII. the French Grocer had already been established in the Seventeenth Century.

Chapter XXXIX. Mazarin's Gaming Party.

Chapter XL: An Affair of State.

Chapter XLI. The Recital.

Chapter XLII. In which Mazarin becomes Prodigal.

Chapter XLIII. Guenaud.

Chapter XLIV. Colbert.

Chapter XLV. Confession of a Man of Wealth.

Chapter XLVI. The Donation.

Chapter XLVII. How Anne of Austria gave one Piece of Advice to Louis XIV.

Chapter XLVIII. Agony.

Chapter XLIX. The First Appearance of Colbert.

Chapter L: The First Day of the Royalty of Louis XIV.

Chapter LI. A Passion.

Chapter LII. D'Artagnan's Lesson.

Chapter LIII. The King.

Chapter LIV. The Houses of M. Fouquet.

Chapter LV. The Abbe Fouquet.

Chapter LVI. M. de la Fontaine's Wine.

Chapter LVII. The Gallery of Saint-Mande.

Chapter LVIII. Epicureans.

Chapter LIX. A Quarter of an Hour's Delay.

Chapter LX. Plan of Battle.

Chapter LXI. The Cabaret of the Image-de-Notre-Dame.

Chapter LXII. Vive Colbert!

Chapter LXIII. How M. d'Eymeris's Diamond passed into the Hands of M. d'Artagnan.

Chapter LXIV. Difference D'Artagnan finds between the Intendant and the Superintendent.

Chapter LXV. Philosophy of the Heart and Mind.

Chapter LXVI. The Journey.

Chapter LXVII. How D'Artagnan became Acquainted with a Poet.

Chapter LXVIII. D'Artagnan continues his Investigations.

Chapter LXIX. D'Artagnan was to meet an Old Acquaintance.

Chapter LXX. Wherein the Ideas of D'Artagnan begin to clear up a little.

Chapter LXXI. A Procession at Vannes.

Chapter LXXII. The Grandeur of the Bishop of Vannes.

Chapter LXXIII. In which Porthos begins to be sorry for having come with D'Artagnan.

Chapter LXXIV. D'Artagnan makes all Speed, Porthos snores, and Aramis counsels.

Chapter LXXV. In which Monsieur Fouquet Acts.

TEN YEARS LATER

(1660-1661, Chapters 76-140 of the Third Volume of the D’Artagnan series)

By Alexandre Dumas

THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITOR’S NOTE TO THE PG D’ARTAGNAN SERIES

LINKED INDEX OF PROJECT GUTENBERG VOLUMES:

ORDER TITLE PG ETEXT# DATES VOLUME CHAPTERS

1 The Three Musketeers 1257 1625-1628 1

2 Twenty Years After 1259 1648-1649 2

3 The Vicomte de Bragelonne 2609 1660 3 1-75

4 Ten Years Later 2681 1660-1661 3 76-140

5 Louise de la Valliere 2710 1661 3 141-208

6 The Man in the Iron Mask 2759 1661-1673 3 209-269

[Project Gutenberg Etext 1258 listed below, is of the same
title as etext 2681 and its contents overlap those of two
other volumes: it includes all the chapters of etext 2609
and the first 28 chapters of 2681]

Ten Years Later 1258 1660-1661 3 1-104

CONTENTS

Transcriber’s Notes
Introduction

Chapter I. In which D’Artagnan finishes by at Length placing his Hand upon his Captain’s Commission.
Chapter II. A Lover and His Mistress.
Chapter III. In Which We at Length See the True Heroine of this History
Chapter IV. Malicorne and Manicamp.
Chapter V: Manicamp and Malicorne.
Chapter VI. The Courtyard of the Hotel Grammont.
Chapter VII. The Portrait of Madame.
Chapter VIII. Le Havre.
Chapter IX. At Sea.
Chapter X. The Tents.
Chapter XI. Night.
Chapter XII. From Le Havre to Paris.
Chapter XIII. An Account of what the Chevalier de Lorraine Thought of Madame.
Chapter XIV. A Surprise for Raoul.
Chapter XV. The Consent of Athos.
Chapter XVI. Monsieur Becomes Jealous of the Duke of Buckingham.
Chapter XVII. Forever!
Chapter XVIII. King Louis XIV. does not think Mademoiselle de la Valliere rich enough
Chapter XIX. Sword-Thrusts in the Water.
Chapter XX. Sword-Thrusts in the Water (concluded).
Chapter XXI. Baisemeaux de Montlezun.
Chapter XXII. The King’s Card-Table.
Chapter XXIII. M. Baisemeaux de Montlezun’s Accounts.
Chapter XXIV. The Breakfast at Monsieur de Baisemeaux’s.
Chapter XXV. The Second Floor of la Bertaudiere.
Chapter XXVI. The Two Friends.
Chapter XXVII. Madame de Belliere’s Plate.
Chapter XXVIII. The Dowry.
Chapter XXIX. Le Terrain de Dieu.
Chapter XXX. Threefold Love.
Chapter XXXI. M. de Lorraine’s Jealousy.
Chapter XXXII. Monsieur is Jealous of Guiche.
Chapter XXXIII. The Mediator.
Chapter XXXIV. The Advisers.
Chapter XXXV. Fontainebleau.
Chapter XXXVI. The Bath.
Chapter XXXVII. The Butterfly-Chase.
Chapter XXXVIII. What Was Caught after the Butterflies.
Chapter XXXIX. The Ballet of the Seasons.
Chapter XL: The Nymphs of the Park of Fontainebleau.
Chapter XLI. What Was Said under the Royal Oak.
Chapter XLII. The King’s Uneasiness.
Chapter XLIII. The King’s Secret.
Chapter XLIV. Courses de Nuit.
Chapter XLV. In Which Madame Acquires a Proof that Listeners Hear What Is Said.
Chapter XLVI. Aramis’s Correspondence.
Chapter XLVII. The Orderly Clerk.
Chapter XLVIII. Fontainebleau at Two o’Clock in the Morning.
Chapter XLIX. The Labyrinth.
Chapter L: How Malicorne Had Been Turned Out of the Hotel of the Beau Paon.
Chapter LI. What Actually Occurred at the Inn Called the Beau Paon.
Chapter LII. A Jesuit of the Eleventh Year.
Chapter LIII. The State Secret.
Chapter LIV. A Mission.
Chapter LV. Happy as a Prince.
Chapter LVI. Story of a Dryad and a Naiad.
Chapter LVII. Conclusion of the Story of a Naiad and of a Dryad.
Chapter LVIII. Royal Psychology.
Chapter LIX. Something That neither Naiad nor Dryad Foresaw.
Chapter LX. The New General of the Jesuits.
Chapter LXI. The Storm.
Chapter LXII. The Shower of Rain.
Chapter LXIII. Toby.
Chapter LXIV. Madame’s Four Chances.
Chapter LXV. The Lottery.

Footnotes

LOUISE DE LA VALLIERE

By Alexandre Dumas [Pere]

THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITOR’S NOTE TO THE PG D’ARTAGNAN SERIES

LINKED INDEX OF PROJECT GUTENBERG VOLUMES:

ORDER TITLE PG ETEXT# DATES VOLUME CHAPTERS

1 The Three Musketeers 1257 1625-1628 1

2 Twenty Years After 1259 1648-1649 2

3 The Vicomte de Bragelonne 2609 1660 3 1-75

4 Ten Years Later 2681 1660-1661 3 76-140

5 Louise de la Valliere 2710 1661 3 141-208

6 The Man in the Iron Mask 2759 1661-1673 3 209-269

[Project Gutenberg Etext 1258 listed below, is of the same
title as etext 2681 and its contents overlap those of two
other volumes: it includes all the chapters of etext 2609
and the first 28 chapters of 2681]

Ten Years Later 1258 1660-1661 3 1-104

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter I. Malaga.
Chapter II. A Letter from M. Baisemeaux.
Chapter III. In Which the Reader will be Delighted to Find that Porthos Has Lost Nothing of His Muscularity.
Chapter IV. The Rat and the Cheese.
Chapter V. Planchet’s Country-House.
Chapter VI. Showing What Could Be Seen from Planchet’s House.
Chapter VII. How Porthos, Truchen, and Planchet Parted with Each Other on Friendly Terms, Thanks to D’Artagnan.
Chapter VIII. The Presentation of Porthos at Court.
Chapter IX. Explanations.
Chapter X. Madame and De Guiche.
Chapter XI. Montalais and Malicorne.
Chapter XII. How De Wardes Was Received at Court.
Chapter XIII. The Combat.
Chapter XIV. The King’s Supper.
Chapter XV. After Supper.
Chapter XVI. Showing in What Way D’Artagnan Discharged the Mission with Which the King Had Intrusted Him.
Chapter XVII. The Encounter.
Chapter XVIII. The Physician.
Chapter XIX. Wherein D’Artagnan Perceives that It Was He Who Was Mistaken, and Manicamp Who Was Right.
Chapter XX. Showing the Advantage of Having Two Strings to One’s Bow.
Chapter XXI. M. Malicorne the Keeper of the Records of France.
Chapter XXII. The Journey.
Chapter XXIII. Triumfeminate.
Chapter XXIV. The First Quarrel.
Chapter XXV. Despair.
Chapter XXVI. The Flight.
Chapter XXVII. Showing How Louis, on His Part, Had Passed the Time from Ten to Half-Past Twelve at Night.
Chapter XXVIII. The Ambassadors.
Chapter XXIX. Chaillot.
Chapter XXX. Madame.
Chapter XXXI. Mademoiselle de la Valliere’s Pocket-Handkerchief.
Chapter XXXII. Which Treats of Gardeners, of Ladders, and Maids of Honor.
Chapter XXXIII. Which Treats of Carpentry Operations, and Furnishes Details upon the Mode of Constructing Staircases.
Chapter XXXIV. The Promenade by Torchlight.
Chapter XXXV. The Apparition.
Chapter XXXVI. The Portrait.
Chapter XXXVII. Hampton Court.
Chapter XXXVIII. The Courier from Madame.
Chapter XXXIX. Saint-Aignan Follows Malicorne’s Advice.
Chapter XL: Two Old Friends.
Chapter XLI. Wherein May Be Seen that a Bargain Which Cannot Be Made with One Person, Can Be Carried Out with Another.
Chapter XLII. The Skin of the Bear.
Chapter XLIII. An Interview with the Queen-Mother.
Chapter XLIV. Two Friends.
Chapter XLV. How Jean de La Fontaine Came to Write His First Tale.
Chapter XLVI. La Fontaine in the Character of a Negotiator.
Chapter XLVII. Madame de Belliere’s Plate and Diamonds.
Chapter XLVIII. M. de Mazarin’s Receipt.
Chapter XLIX. Monsieur Colbert’s Rough Draft.
Chapter L: In Which the Author Thinks It Is High Time to Return to the Vicomte de Bragelonne.
Chapter LI. Bragelonne Continues His Inquiries.
Chapter LII. Two Jealousies.
Chapter LIII. A Domiciliary Visit.
Chapter LIV. Porthos’s Plan of Action.
Chapter LV. The Change of Residence, the Trap-Door, and the Portrait.
Chapter LVI. Rivals in Politics.
Chapter LVII. Rivals in Love.
Chapter LVIII. King and Noble.
Chapter LIX. After the Storm.
Chapter LX. Heu! Miser!
Chapter LXI. Wounds within Wounds.
Chapter LXII. What Raoul Had Guessed.
Chapter LXIII. Three Guests Astonished to Find Themselves at Supper Together.
Chapter LXIV. What Took Place at the Louvre During the Supper at the Bastile.
Chapter LXV. Political Rivals.
Chapter LXVI. In Which Porthos Is Convinced without Having Understood Anything.
Chapter LXVII. M. de Baisemeaux’s “Society.”

Footnotes:

THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK

By Alexandre Dumas

CONTENTS

Transcriber’s Notes:
Introduction:
Chapter I. The Prisoner.
Chapter II. How Mouston Had Become Fatter without Giving Porthos Notice Thereof
Chapter III. Who Messire Jean Percerin Was.
Chapter IV. The Patterns.
Chapter V. Where, Probably, Moliere Obtained His First Idea of the Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
Chapter VI. The Bee-Hive, the Bees, and the Honey.
Chapter VII. Another Supper at the Bastile.
Chapter VIII. The General of the Order.
Chapter IX. The Tempter.
Chapter X. Crown and Tiara.
Chapter XI. The Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte.
Chapter XII. The Wine of Melun.
Chapter XIII. Nectar and Ambrosia.
Chapter XIV. A Gascon, and a Gascon and a Half.
Chapter XV. Colbert.
Chapter XVI. Jealousy.
Chapter XVII. High Treason.
Chapter XVIII. A Night at the Bastile.
Chapter XIX. The Shadow of M. Fouquet.
Chapter XX. The Morning.
Chapter XXI. The King’s Friend.
Chapter XXII. Showing How the Countersign Was Respected at the Bastile.
Chapter XXIII. The King’s Gratitude.
Chapter XXIV. The False King.
Chapter XXV. In Which Porthos Thinks He Is Pursuing a Duchy.
Chapter XXVI. The Last Adieux.
Chapter XXVII. Monsieur de Beaufort.
Chapter XXVIII. Preparations for Departure.
Chapter XXIX. Planchet’s Inventory.
Chapter XXX. The Inventory of M. de Beaufort.
Chapter XXXI. The Silver Dish.
Chapter XXXII. Captive and Jailers.
Chapter XXXIII. Promises.
Chapter XXXIV. Among Women.
Chapter XXXV. The Last Supper.
Chapter XXXVI. In M. Colbert’s Carriage.
Chapter XXXVII. The Two Lighters.
Chapter XXXVIII. Friendly Advice.
Chapter XXXIX. How the King, Louis XIV., Played His Little Part.
Chapter XL: The White Horse and the Black.
Chapter XLI. In Which the Squirrel Falls, the Adder Flies.
Chapter XLII. Belle-Ile-en-Mer.
Chapter XLIII. Explanations by Aramis.
Chapter XLIV. Result of the Ideas of the King, and the Ideas of D’Artagnan.
Chapter XLV. The Ancestors of Porthos.
Chapter XLVI. The Son of Biscarrat.
Chapter XLVII. The Grotto of Locmaria.
Chapter XLVIII. The Grotto.
Chapter XLIX. An Homeric Song.
Chapter L: The Death of a Titan.
Chapter LI. Porthos’s Epitaph.
Chapter LII. M. de Gesvres’s Round.
Chapter LIII. King Louis XIV.
Chapter LIV. M. Fouquet’s Friends.
Chapter LV. Porthos’s Will.
Chapter LVI. The Old Age of Athos.
Chapter LVII. Athos’s Vision.
Chapter LVIII. The Angel of Death.
Chapter LIX. The Bulletin.
Chapter LX. The Last Canto of the Poem.
Epilogue.
Footnotes

CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE

By Alexandre Dumas, Pere

1910

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CONTENTS
NOTE:
INTRODUCTION
THE BORGIAS
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
EPILOGUE
THE CENCI"1598
MASSACRES OF THE SOUTH"1551-1815
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
MARY STUART"1587
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
KARL-LUDWIG SAND"1819
URBAIN GRANDIER"1634
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
NISIDA"1825
DERUES
LA CONSTANTIN"1660
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
JOAN OF NAPLES"1343-1382
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK [An Essay]
MARTIN GUERRE
ALI PACHA
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
THE COUNTESS DE SAINT-GERAN"1639
MURAT"1815
I. TOULON
II."CORSICA
III."PIZZO
THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS
VANINKA
THE MARQUISE DE GANGES" 1657

THE COMPANIONS OF JEHU

By Alexandre Dumas, père

CONTENTS

| AN INTRODUCTORY WORD TO THE READER
PROLOGUE | THE CITY OF AVIGNON
CHAPTER I | A TABLE D’HÔTE
CHAPTER II | AN ITALIAN PROVERB
CHAPTER III | THE ENGLISHMAN
CHAPTER IV | THE DUEL
CHAPTER V | ROLAND
CHAPTER VI | MORGAN
CHAPTER VII | THE CHARTREUSE OF SEILLON
CHAPTER VIII | HOW THE MONEY OF THE DIRECTORY WAS USED
CHAPTER IX | ROMEO AND JULIET
CHAPTER X | THE FAMILY OF ROLAND
CHAPTER XI | CHÂTEAU DES NOIRES-FONTAINES
CHAPTER XII | PROVINCIAL PLEASURES
CHAPTER XIII | THE WILD-BOAR
CHAPTER XIV | AN UNPLEASANT COMMISSION
CHAPTER XV | THE STRONG-MINDED MAN
CHAPTER XVI | THE GHOST
CHAPTER XVII | INVESTIGATIONS
CHAPTER XVIII | THE TRIAL
CHAPTER XIX | THE LITTLE HOUSE IN THE RUE DE LA VICTOIRE
CHAPTER XX | THE GUESTS OF GENERAL BONAPARTE
CHAPTER XXI | THE SCHEDULE OF THE DIRECTORY
CHAPTER XXII | THE OUTLINE OF A DECREE
CHAPTER XXIII | ALEA JACTA EST
CHAPTER XXIV | THE EIGHTEENTH BRUMAIRE
CHAPTER XXV | AN IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER XXVI | THE BALL OF THE VICTIMS
CHAPTER XXVII | THE BEAR’S SKIN
CHAPTER XXVIII | FAMILY MATTERS
CHAPTER XXIX | THE GENEVA DILIGENCE
CHAPTER XXX | CITIZEN FOUCHÉ’S REPORT
CHAPTER XXXI | THE SON OF THE MILLER OF LEGUERNO
CHAPTER XXXII | WHITE AND BLUE
CHAPTER XXXIII | THE LAW OF RETALIATION
CHAPTER XXXIV | THE DIPLOMACY OF GEORGES CADOUDAL
CHAPTER XXXV | A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XXXVI | SCULPTURE AND PAINTING
CHAPTER XXXVII | THE AMBASSADOR
CHAPTER XXXVIII | THE TWO SIGNALS
CHAPTER XXXIX | THE GROTTO OF CEYZERIAT
CHAPTER XL | A FALSE SCENT
CHAPTER XLI | THE HÔTEL DE LA POSTE
CHAPTER XLII | THE CHAMBÉRY MAIL-COACH
CHAPTER XLIII | LORD GRENVILLE’S REPLY
CHAPTER XLIV | CHANGE OF RESIDENCE
CHAPTER XLV | THE FOLLOWER OF TRAILS
CHAPTER XLVI | AN INSPIRATION
CHAPTER XLVII | A RECONNOISSANCE
CHAPTER XLVIII | IN WHICH MORGAN’S PRESENTIMENTS ARE VERIFIED
CHAPTER XLIX | ROLAND’S REVENGE
CHAPTER L | CADOUDAL AT THE TUILERIES
CHAPTER LI | THE ARMY OF THE RESERVES
CHAPTER LII | THE TRIAL
CHAPTER LIII | IN WHICH AMÉLIE KEEPS HER WORD
CHAPTER LIV | THE CONFESSION
CHAPTER LV | INVULNERABLE
CHAPTER LVI | CONCLUSION

CHICOT THE JESTER

Abridged translation of “La dame de Monsoreau”

By Alexandre Dumas

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. | THE WEDDING OF ST. LUC.
CHAPTER II. | HOW IT IS NOT ALWAYS HE WHO OPENS THE DOOR, WHO ENTERS THE HOUSE.
CHAPTER III. | HOW IT IS SOMETIMES DIFFICULT TO DISTINGUISH A DREAM FROM THE REALITY.
CHAPTER IV. | HOW MADAME DE ST. LUC HAD PASSED THE NIGHT.
CHAPTER V. | HOW MADAME DE ST. LUC PASSED THE SECOND NIGHT OF HER MARRIAGE.
CHAPTER VI. | LE PETIT COUCHER OF HENRI III.
CHAPTER VII. | HOW, WITHOUT ANY ONE KNOWING WHY, THE KING WAS CONVERTED BEFORE THE NEXT DAY.
CHAPTER VIII. | HOW THE KING WAS AFRAID OF BEING AFRAID.
CHAPTER IX. | HOW THE ANGEL MADE A MISTAKE AND SPOKE TO CHICOT, THINKING IT WAS THE KING.
CHAPTER X. | HOW BUSSY WENT TO SEEK FOR THE REALITY OF HIS DREAM.
CHAPTER XI. | M. BRYAN DE MONSOREAU.
CHAPTER XII. | HOW BUSSY FOUND BOTH THE PORTRAIT AND THE ORIGINAL.
CHAPTER XIII. | WHO DIANA WAS.
CHAPTER XIV. | THE TREATY.
CHAPTER XV. | THE MARRIAGE.
CHAPTER XVI. | THE MARRIAGE.
CHAPTER XVII. | HOW HENRI III. TRAVELED, AND HOW LONG IT TOOK HIM TO GET FROM PARIS TO FONTAINEBLEAU.
CHAPTER XVIII. | BROTHER GORENFLOT.
CHAPTER XIX. | HOW CHICOT FOUND OUT THAT IT WAS EASIER TO GO IN THAN OUT OF THE ABBEY.
CHAPTER XX. | HOW CHICOT, FORCED TO REMAIN IN THE ABBEY, SAW AND HEARD THINGS VERY DANGEROUS TO SEE AND HEAR.
CHAPTER XXI. | HOW CHICOT LEARNED GENEALOGY.
CHAPTER XXII. | HOW M. AND MADAME DE ST. LUC MET WITH A TRAVELING COMPANION.
CHAPTER XXIII. | THE OLD MAN.
CHAPTER XXIV. | HOW REMY-LE-HAUDOUIN HAD, IN BUSSY'S ABSENCE, ESTABLISHED A COMMUNICATION WITH THE RUE ST. ANTOINE.
CHAPTER XXV. | THE FATHER AND DAUGHTER.
CHAPTER XXVI. | HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT AWOKE, AND THE RECEPTION HE MET WITH AT HIS CONVENT.
CHAPTER XXVII. | HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT REMAINED CONVINCED THAT HE WAS A SOMNAMBULIST, AND BITTERLY DEPLORED THIS INFIRMITY.
CHAPTER XXVIII. | HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT TRAVELED UPON AN ASS, NAMED PANURGE, AND LEARNED MANY THINGS HE DID NOT KNOW BEFORE.
CHAPTER XXIX. | HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT CHANGED HIS ASS FOR A MULE, AND HIS MULE FOR A HORSE.
CHAPTER XXX. | HOW CHICOT AND HIS COMPANION INSTALLED THEMSELVES AT THE HOTEL OF THE CROSS, AND HOW THEY WERE RECEIVED BY THE HOST.
CHAPTER XXXI. | HOW THE MONK CONFESSED THE ADVOCATE, AND THE ADVOCATE THE MONK.
CHAPTER XXXII. | HOW CHICOT USED HIS SWORD.
CHAPTER XXXIII. | HOW THE DUC D'ANJOU LEARNED THAT DIANA WAS NOT DEAD.
CHAPTER XXXIV. | HOW CHICOT RETURNED TO THE LOUVRE, AND WAS RECEIVED BY THE KING HENRI III.
CHAPTER XXXV. | WHAT PASSED BETWEEN M. DE MONSOREAU AND THE DUKE.
CHAPTER XXXVI. | CHICOT AND THE KING.
CHAPTER XXXVII. | WHAT M. DE GUISE CAME TO DO AT THE LOUVRE.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. | CASTOR AND POLLUX.
CHAPTER XXXIX. | IN WHICH IT IS PROVED THAT LISTENING IS THE BEST WAY TO HEAR.
CHAPTER XL. | THE EVENING OF THE LEAGUE.
CHAPTER XLI. | THE RUE DE LA FERRONNERIE.
CHAPTER XLII. | THE PRINCE AND THE FRIEND.
CHAPTER XLIII. | ETYMOLOGY OF THE RUE DE LA JUSSIENNE.
CHAPTER XLIV. | HOW D'EPERNON HAD HIS DOUBLET TORN, AND HOW CHOMBERG WAS STAINED BLUE.
CHAPTER XLV. | CHICOT MORE THAN EVER KING OF FRANCE.
CHAPTER XLVI. | HOW CHICOT PAID A VISIT TO BUSSY, AND WHAT FOLLOWED.
CHAPTER XLVII. | THE CHESS OF M. CHICOT, AND THE CUP AND BALL OF M. QUELUS.
CHAPTER XLVIII. | THE RECEPTION OF THE CHIEFS OF THE LEAGUE.
CHAPTER XLIX. | HOW THE KING ANNEXED A CHIEF WHO WAS NEITHER THE DUC DE GUISE NOR M. D'ANJOU.
CHAPTER L. | ETEOCLES AND POLYNICES.
CHAPTER LI. | HOW PEOPLE DO NOT ALWAYS LOSE THEIR TIME BY SEARCHING EMPTY DRAWERS.
CHAPTER LII. | VENTRE ST. GRIS.
CHAPTER LIII. | THE FRIENDS.
CHAPTER LIV. | BUSSY AND DIANA.
CHAPTER LV. | HOW BUSSY WAS OFFERED THREE HUNDRED PISTOLES FOR HIS HORSE, AND PARTED WITH HIM FOR NOTHING.
CHAPTER LVI. | THE DIPLOMACY OF THE DUC D'ANJOU.
CHAPTER LVII. | THE IDEAS OF THE DUC D'ANJOU.
CHAPTER LVIII. | A FLIGHT OF ANGEVINS.
CHAPTER LIX. | ROLAND.
CHAPTER LX. | WHAT M. DE MONSOREAU CAME TO ANNOUNCE.
CHAPTER LXI. | HOW THE KING LEARNED THE FLIGHT OF HIS BELOVED BROTHER, AND WHAT FOLLOWED.
CHAPTER LXII. | HOW, AS CHICOT AND THE QUEEN MOTHER WERE AGREED, THE KING BEGAN TO AGREE WITH THEM.
CHAPTER LXIII. | IN WHICH IT IS PROVED THAT GRATITUDE WAS ONE OF ST. LUC'S VIRTUES.
CHAPTER LXIV. | THE PROJECT OF M. DE ST. LUC.
CHAPTER LXV. | HOW M. DE ST. LUC SHOWED M. DE MONSOREAU THE THRUST THAT THE KING HAD TAUGHT HIM.
CHAPTER LXVI. | HOW M. DE ST. LUC SHOWED M. DE MONSOREAU THE THRUST THAT THE KING HAD TAUGHT HIM.
CHAPTER LXVII. | LITTLE CAUSES AND GREAT EFFECTS.
CHAPTER LXVIII. | HOW M. DE MONSOREAU OPENED AND SHUT HIS EYES, WHICH PROVED THAT HE WAS NOT DEAD.

CHAPTER LXIX.

HOW M. LE DUC D'ANJOU WENT TO MÉRIDOR TO CONGRATULATE MADAME DE MONSOREAU ON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, AND FOUND HIM THERE BEFORE HIM.

CHAPTER LXX. | THE INCONVENIENCE OF LARGE LITTERS AND NARROW DOORS.
CHAPTER LXXI. | WHAT TEMPER THE KING WAS IN WHEN ST. LUC REAPPEARED AT THE LOUVRE.
CHAPTER LXXII. | IN WHICH WE MEET TWO IMPORTANT PERSONAGES WHOM WE HAVE LOST SIGHT OF FOR SOME TIME.
CHAPTER LXXIII. | DIANA'S SECOND JOURNEY TO PARIS.
CHAPTER LXXIV. | HOW THE AMBASSADOR OF THE DUC D'ANJOU ARRIVED AT THE LOUVRE, AND THE RECEPTION HE MET WITH.
CHAPTER LXXV. | WHICH IS ONLY THE END OF THE PRECEDING ONE.
CHAPTER LXXVI. | HOW M. DE ST. LUC ACQUITTED HIMSELF OF THE COMMISSION GIVEN TO HIM BY BUSSY.

CHAPTER LXXVII.

IN WHAT RESPECT M. DE ST. LUC WAS MORE CIVILIZED THAN M. DE BUSSY, THE LESSONS WHICH HE GAVE HIM, AND THE USE WHICH M. DE BUSSY MADE OF THEM.

CHAPTER LXXVIII. | THE PRECAUTIONS OF M. DE MONSOREAU.
CHAPTER LXXIX. | A VISIT TO THE HOUSE AT LES TOURNELLES.
CHAPTER LXXX. | THE WATCHERS.
CHAPTER LXXXI. | HOW M. LE DUC D'ANJOU SIGNED, AND AFTER HAVING SIGNED, SPOKE.
CHAPTER LXXXII. | A PROMENADE AT THE TOURNELLES.
CHAPTER LXXXIII. | IN WHICH CHICOT SLEEPS.
CHAPTER LXXXIV. | WHERE CHICOT WAKES.
CHAPTER LXXXV. | THE FÊTE DIEU.
CHAPTER LXXXVI. | WHICH WILL ELUCIDATE THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER.
CHAPTER LXXXVII.
CHAPTER LXXXVIII. | THE PROCESSION.
CHAPTER LXXXIX. | INTEREST AND CAPITAL.
CHAPTER XC. | WHAT WAS PASSING NEAR THE BASTILE WHILE CHICOT WAS PAYING HIS DEBT TO Y. DE MAYENNE.
CHAPTER XCI. | THE ASSASSINATION.
CHAPTER XCII. | HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT FOUND HIMSELF MORE THAN EVER BETWEEN A GALLOWS AND AN ABBEY.
CHAPTER XCIII. | WHERE CHICOT GUESSES WHY D'EPERNON HAD BLOOD ON HIS FEET AND NONE IN HIS CHEEKS.
CHAPTER XCIV. | THE MORNING OF THE COMBAT.
CHAPTER XCV. | THE FRIENDS OF BUSSY.
CHAPTER XCVI. | THE COMBAT.
CHAPTER XCVII. | THE END.

THE CONSPIRATORS.

By Alexandre Dumas

CONTENTS

1. | Captain Roquefinette | 240
2. | The Meeting | 243
3. | The Chevalier | 247
4. | A Bal-Masque of the Period.--The Bat | 251
5. | The Arsenal | 257
6. | The Prince de Cellamare | 261
7. | Alberoni | 264
8. | The Garret | 269
9. | A Citizen of the Rue du Temps-Perdu | 272
10. | The Agreement | 276
11. | Pros and Cons | 279
12. | The Denis Family | 285
13. | The Crimson Ribbon | 290
14. | The Rue des bons Enfants | 295
15. | Jean Buvat | 301
16. | Bathilde | 310
17. | First Love | 319
18. | The Consul Duilius | 325
19. | The Abbe Dubois | 331
20. | The Conspiracy | 335
21. | The Order of the Honey Bee | 338
22. | The Queen of the Greenlanders | 340
23. | The Duc de Richelieu | 344
24. | Jealousy | 348
25. | A Pretext | 352
26. | Counterplots | 355
27. | The Seventh Heaven | 360
28. | Fenelon's Successor | 363
29. | The Prince de Listhnay's Accomplice | 368
30. | The Fox and Goose | 372
31. | A Chapter of Saint-Simon | 376
32. | A Snare | 378
33. | The Beginning of the End | 382
34. | Parliamentary Justice | 387
35. | Man Proposes | 391
36. | David and Goliath | 395
37. | The Savior of France | 400
38. | God Disposes | 408
39. | A Prime Minister's Memory | 412
40. | Boniface | 416
41. | The Three Visits | 420
42. | The Closet | 424
43. | The Marriage in Extremis | 427
| Postscriptum | 429

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

7. | He attacked the captain with such fury that their swords engaged at the hilt.
8. | D'Harmental.
9. | He then returned to his work with all the eagerness of an artist.
10. | The chevalier set Mirza to eat sugar.
11. | Buvat found himself in a sort of laboratory, situated on the ground-floor.
12. | The body of the captain lay stretched on the floor, swimming in a sea of blood.

THE PRUSSIAN TERROR

By Alexandre Dumas

A First Translation From The French By R.S. Garnett

1916

CONTENTS

TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION
I. BERLIN
II. THE HOUSE OF HOHENZOLLERN
III. COUNT VON BISMARCK
IV. IN WHICH BISMARCK EMERGES FROM AN IMPOSSIBLE POSITION
V. A SPORTSMAN AND A SPANIEL
VI. BENEDICT TURPIN
VII. KAULBACH'S STUDIO
VIII. THE CHALLENGE
IX. THE TWO DUELS
X. WHAT WAS WRITTEN IN A KING'S HAND
XI. BARON FREDERIC VON BÜLOW
XII. HELEN
XIII. COUNT KARL VON FREYBERG
XIV. THE GRANDMOTHER
XV. FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN
XVI. THE DEPARTURE
XVII. AUSTRIANS AND PRUSSIANS
XVIII. THE DECLARATION OF WAR
XIX. THE BATTLE OF LANGENSALZA
XX. IN WHICH BENEDICT'S PREDICTION CONTINUES TO BE FULFILLED
XXI. WHAT PASSED AT FRANKFURT BETWEEN THE BATTLES OF LANGENSALZA AND SADOWA
XXII. THE FREE MEAL
XXIII. THE BATTLE OF ASCHAFFENBURG
XXIV. THE EXECUTOR
XXV. FRISK
XXVI. THE WOUNDED MAN
XXVII. THE PRUSSIANS AT FRANKFORT
XXVIII. GENERAL MANTEUFFEL'S THREATS
XXIX. GENERAL STURM
XXX. THE BREAKING OF THE STORM
XXXI. THE BURGOMASTER
XXXII. QUEEN AUGUSTA
XXXIII. THE TWO PROCESSIONS
XXXIV. THE TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD
XXXV. THE MARRIAGE IN EXTREMIS
XXXVI. "WAIT AND SEE"
CONCLUSION
EPILOGUE

CAPTAIN PAUL

By Alexandre Dumas, pere

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.
CAPTAIN PAUL.
CHAPTER I | A STRANGE SAIL
CHAPTER II. | THE FRIGATE.
CHAPTER III. | THE SEA FIGHT.
CHAPTER IV. | THE MARCHIONESS.
CHAPTER V. | DEVOTED LOVE.
CHAPTER VI. | BROTHER AND SISTER.
CHAPTER VII. | THE FAITHFUL SERVANT.
CHAPTER VIII. | THE SECRET.
CHAPTER IX. | FATAL LOVE.
CHAPTER X. | CONFIDENCE.
CHAPTER XI. | THE COURTIER.
CHAPTER XII. | THE CHALLENGE.
CHAPTER XIII. | THE CONTRACT.
CHAPTER XIV. | RELIGIOUS CONVICTION.
CHAPTER XV. | THE PAPERS.
CHAPTER XVI. | RECRIMINATION.
CHAPTER XVII. | THE BROTHERS
CHAPTER XVIII | RECOGNITION.
CHAPTER XIX. | THE FAREWELL.
EPILOGUE.

THE SICILIAN BANDIT

From the Volume “Captain Paul”

By Alexandre Dumas, pere

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. | INTRODUCTION -- PALERMO.
CHAPTER II. | BRUNO AND ALI.
CHAPTER III. | THE FATAL BRIDAL.
CHAPTER IV. | THE PRINCE AND THE BANDIT.
CHAPTER IV. | THE ROBBER’S CASTLE.
CHAPTER VI. | A BANDIT’S GRATITUDE.
CHAPTER VII. | A BRIGAND’S VENGEANCE.
CHAPTER VIII. | -TREACHERY.
CHAPTER IX. | THE SIEGE.
CHAPTER X. | THE CHAPELLE ARDENTE.
CHAPTER XI. | DEATH OF THE BANDIT.
CHAPTER XII. | CONCLUSION.

THE HERO OF THE PEOPLE.

By Alex. Dumas

CONTENTS

CHAPTER: I. | LOCKSMITH AND GUNSMITH.
II. | THE THREE ODDITIES.
III. | THE UNDYING MAN.
IV. | FATALITY.
V. | THE CANDLE OMEN.
VI. | THE REVOLUTION IN THE COUNTRY.
VII. | THE ABDICATION IN A FARMHOUSE.
VIII. | ANOTHER BLOW.
IX. | PITOU BECOMES A TACTICIAN.
X. | THE LOVER'S PARTING.
XI. | THE ROAD TO PARIS.
XII. | THE SPIRIT MATERIALIZED.,
XIII. | HUSBAND AND WIFE.
XIV. | IN SEARCH OF THEIR SON.
XV. | THE MAN WITH THE MODEL.
XVI. | THE PORTRAIT OF CHARLES FIRST.
XVII. | THE KING ATTENDS TO PRIVATE MATTERS.
XVIII. | THE KING ATTENDS TO PUBLIC MATTERS.
XIX. | A LOVING QUEEN.
XX. | WITHOUT HUSBAND-WITHOUT LOVER.,
XXI. | WHAT A CUT-OFF HEAD MAY COUNSEL.
XXII. | THE SMILE AND THE NOD.
XXIII. | THE ROYAL LOCKSMITH.
XXIV. | HAPPY FAMILY.
XXV. | DOWN AMONG THE DEAD.
XXVI. | GAMAIN PROVES HE IS THE MASTER.
XXVII. | THE FRIEND OF THE FALLEN.
XXVIII. | THE FIRST GUILLOTINE.
XXX. | UNDER THE WINDOW.

THE MESMERIST'S VICTIM.

By Alex. Dumas

CONTENTS

Chapter: I. | THE DESPERATE RESCUE.
II. | THE FIELD OF THE DEAD.
III. | THE RESTORATION.
IV. | AN AERIAL JOURNEY.
V. | SUSPICIONS.
VI. | WHAT GILBERT EXPECTED.
VII. | THE TRAP TO CATCH PHILOSOPHERS.
VIII. | THE LITTLE TRIANON.
IX. | THE HUNT.
X. | A SEANCE OF MESMERISM.
XI. | THE DOWNFALL AND THE ELEVATION.
XII. | ANDREA IN FAVOR.
XIII. | NICOLE IS VALUED PROPERLY.
XIV. | ONE MAN'S MEAT IS ANOTHER'S POISON.
XV. | THE ROAD TO PREMIERSHIP IS NOT STREWN WITH ROSES.
XVI. | THE ENDLESS LAW SUIT.
XVII. | THE SECRET SOCIETY LODGE.
XVIII. | THE INNERMOST CIRCLE.
XIX. | BODY AND SOUL.
XX. | THE DIAMOND COLLAR.
XXI. | THE KING'S PRIVATE SUPPER-PARTY.
XXII. | PRESENTIMENTS.
XXIII. | FATHER AND DAUGHTER.
XXIV. | THE RICHELIEU ELIXIR.
XXV. | SECOND SIGHT.
XXVI. | SARTINES BELIEVES BALSAMO IS A MAGICIAN.
XXVII. | LOVE VERSUS SCIENCE.
XXVIII. | THE ULTIMATE TEST.
XXIX. | THE LIQUOR OF BEAUTY.
XXX. | THE BLOOD
XXXI. | THE TRIAL.
XXXII. | MAN AND GOD.
XXXIII. | THE FAINTING FITS.
XXXIV. | THE AVENGER.
XXXV. | THE MISUNDERSTANDING.
XXXVI. | TWO SORROWS.
XXXVII. | THE GUILTY ONE.
XXXVIII. | FATHER AND SON.
XXXIX. | GILBERT'S PROJECT.
XL. | DECEMBER THE FIFTEENTH.
XLI. | THE KIDNAPPING.
XLII. | A STRANGE ENCOUNTER.
XLIII. | THE LAST ABSOLUTE KING.

THE COUNTESS OF CHARNY or, THE EXECUTION OF KING LOUIS XVI.

By Alex. Dumas

CONTENTS

Chapter | | Page
I. | THE NEW MEN AT THE WHEEL. | 5
II. | GILBERT'S CANDIDATE. | 17
III. | POWERFUL, PERHAPS; HAPPY, NEVER. | 24
IV. | THE FOES FACE TO FACE. | 38
V. | THE UNINVITED VISITORS. | 42
VI. | "THE COUNTRY IS IN DANGER!" | 56
VII. | THE MEN FROM MARSEILLES. | 63
VIII. | THE FRIEND IN NEED. | 66
IX. | CHARNY ON GUARD. | 71
X. | BILLET AND PITOU. | 76
XI. | IN THE MORNING. | 82
XII. | THE FIRST MASSACRE. | 88
XIII. | THE REPULSE. | 92
XIV. | THE LAST OF THE CHARNYS. | 99
XV. | THE BLOOD-STAINS. | 109
XVI. | THE WIDOW. | 117
XVII. | WHAT ANDREA WANTED OF GILBERT. | 126
XVIII. | THE ASSEMBLY AND THE COMMUNE. | 131
XIX. | CAPTAIN BEAUSIRE APPEARS AGAIN. | 136
XX. | THE EMETIC. | 142
XXI. | BEAUSIRE'S BRAVADO. | 148
XXII. | SET UPON DYING. | 153
XXIII. | THE DEATH OF THE COUNTESS. | 162
XXIV. | THE ROYAL MARTYR. | 167
XXV. | MASTER GAMAIN TURNS UP. | 174
XXVI. | THE TRIAL OF THE KING. | 178
XXVII. | THE PARALLEL TO CHARLES I. | 185
XXVIII. | CAGLIOSTRO'S ADVICE. | 190
XXIX. | THE CROWN OF ANGE'S LOVE. | 195
XXX. | THE EFFECT OF HAPPY NEWS. | 201
XXXI. | THE EASY-CHAIR. | 206
XXXII. | WHAT PITOU DID WITH THE FIND. | 210
| ADVERTISEMENTS. | 215

THE ROYAL LIFE GUARD.

By Alex. Dumas

CONTENTS

I. | A NEW LEASE OF LIFE. | 3
II. | THE FEDERATION OF FRANCE. | 8
III. | WHERE THE BASTILE STOOD. | 14
IV. | THE LODGE OF THE INVISIBLES. | 21
V. | THE CONSPIRATORS ACCOUNT. | 27
VI. | WOMEN AND FLOWERS. | 33
VII. | THE KING'S MESSENGER. | 44
VIII. | THE HUSBAND'S PROMISE. | 49
IX. | OFF AND AWAY. | 53
X. | ON THE HIGHWAY. | 61
XI. | THE QUEEN'S HAIRDRESSER. | 67
XII. | MISCHANCE. | 71
XIII. | STOP, KING! | 76
XIV. | THE CAPTURE. | 84
XV. | POOR CATHERINE. | 96
XVI. | THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE. | 102
XVII. | THE FEUD. | 110
XVIII. | ON THE BACK TRACK. | 120
XIX. | THE DOLOROUS WAY. | 125
XX. | MIRABEAU'S SUCCESSOR. | 135
XXI. | ANOTHER DUPE. | 141
XXII. | THE CENTRE OF CATASTROPHES. | 150
XXIII. | THE BITTER CUP. | 155
XXIV. | AT LAST THEY ARE HAPPY! | 161
XXV. | CORRECTING THE PETITION. | 168
XXVI. | CAGLIOSTRO'S COUNSEL. | 176
XXVII. | THE SQUEEZED LEMON. | 181
XXVIII. | THE FIELD OF BLOOD. | 186
XXIX. | IN THE HOSPITAL. | 191
XXX. | THE MOTHER'S BLESSING. | 196
XXXI. | FORTIER EXECUTES HIS THREAT. | 201

TAKING THE BASTILE; or PITOU THE PEASANT

A Historical Story of The Great French Revolution.

By Alex. Dumas

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. | | THE SON OF GILBERT.
CHAPTER II. | | ANGE PITOU.
CHAPTER III. | | A REVOLUTIONARY FARMER.
CHAPTER IV. | | LONG LEGS ARE GOOD FOR RUNNING, IF NOT FOR DANCING.
CHAPTER V. | | WHY THE POLICE AGENT CAME WITH THE CONSTABLES.
CHAPTER VI. | | ON THE ROAD.
CHAPTER VII. | | THE FIRST BLOOD.
CHAPTER VIII. | | PITOU DISCOVERS HE IS BRAVE.
CHAPTER IX. | | "TO THE BASTILE!"
CHAPTER X. | | BLOWING HOT AND COLD.
CHAPTER XI. | | THE PRISON GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER XII. | | STORMING THE BASTILE.
CHAPTER XIII. | | DOWN IN THE DUNGEONS.
CHAPTER XIV. | | THE TRIANGLE OF LIBERTY.
CHAPTER XV. | | THE YOUNG VISIONARY.
CHAPTER XVI. | | THE PHYSICIAN FOR THE STATE.
CHAPTER XVII. | | THE COUNTESS OF CHARNY.
CHAPTER XVIII. | | THE QUEEN AT BAY.
CHAPTER XIX. | | THE QUEEN'S FAVOURITE.
CHAPTER XX. | | THE TRIO OF LOVE.
CHAPTER XXI. | | THE QUEEN AND HER MASTER.
CHAPTER XXII. | | THE PRIVATE COUNCIL.
CHAPTER XXIII. | | WHY THE QUEEN WAITED.
CHAPTER XXIV. | | THE ARMY OF WOMEN.
CHAPTER XXV. | | THE NIGHT OF HORRORS.
CHAPTER XXVI. | | BILLET'S SORROW.

THE LAST VENDÉE OR, THE SHE-WOLVES OF MACHECOUL

Two Volumes In One

By Alexandre Dumas

CONTENTS

CHAPTER |
I. | Charette's Aide-de-camp.
II. | The Gratitude of Kings.
III. | The Twins.

IV.

How Jean Oullier, coming to see the Marquis for an Hour, would be there still if they had not both been in their Grave these ten years.

V. | A Litter of Wolves.
VI. | The Wounded Hare.
VII. | Monsieur Michel.
VIII. | The Baronne de la Logerie.
IX. | Galon-d'or and Allégro.

X.

In which Things do not Happen precisely as Baron Michel Dreamed they would.

XI. | The Foster-father.
XII. | Noblesse Oblige.
XIII. | A Distant Cousin.
XIV. | Petit-Pierre.
XV. | An Unseasonable Hour.
XVI. | Courtin's Diplomacy.

XVII.

The Tavern of Aubin Courte-Joie.

XVIII. | The Man from La Logerie.
XIX. | The Fair at Montaigu.
XX. | The Outbreak.
XXI. | Jean Oullier's Resources.
XXII. | Fetch! Pataud, fetch!
XXIII. | To whom the Cottage belonged.

XXIV.

How Marianne Picaut mourned her Husband.

XXV.

In which Love lends Political Opinions to those who have none.

XXVI. | The Springs of Baugé.
XXVII. | The Guests at Souday.

XXVIII.

In which the Marquis de Souday bitterly regrets that Petit-Pierre is not a Gentleman.

XXIX. | The Vendéans of 1832.
XXX. | The Warning.
XXXI. | My Old Crony Loriot.

XXXII.

The General eats a Supper which had not been Prepared for him.

XXXIII.

In which Maître Loriot's Curiosity is not exactly satisfied.

XXXIV. | The Tower Chamber.

XXXV.

Which ends quite otherwise than as Mary expected.

XXXVI. | Blue and White.

XXXVII.

Which shows that it is not for Flies only that Spiders' Webs are dangerous.

XXXVIII.

In which the Daintiest Foot of France and of Navarre finds that Cinderella's Slipper does not fit it as well as Seven-league Boots.

XXXIX.

Petit-Pierre makes the best Meal he ever made in his Life.

XL. | Equality in Death.
XLI. | The Search.

XLII.

In which Jean Oullier speaks his mind About young Baron Michel.

XLIII.

Baron Michel becomes Bertha's Aide-de-camp.

XLIV. | Maître Jacques and his Rabbits.

XLV.

The Danger of Meeting bad Company in the Woods.

XLVI.

Maître Jacques proceeds to keep the Oath he made to Aubin Courte-Joie.

THE LAST VENDÉE;
OR, THE SHE-WOLVES OF MACHECOUL.

VOLUME II.

CONTENTS.

I.

In which it appears that all Jews are not from Jerusalem, nor all Turks from Tunis.

II. | Maître Marc.

III.

How Persons travelled in the Department of the Lower Loire in May, 1832.

IV. | A little History does no Harm.

V.

Petit-Pierre resolves on keeping a Brave Heart against Misfortune.

VI.

How Jean Oullier proved that when the Wine is drawn it is best to drink it.

VII.

Herein is explained how and why Baron Michel decided to go to Nantes.

VIII.

The Sheep, returning to the Fold, tumbles into a Pit-fall.

IX.

Trigaud proves that if he had been Hercules He would probably have accomplished Twenty-four labors instead of twelve.

X. | Giving the Slip.

XI.

Mary is victorious after the Manner of Pyrrhus.

XII.

Baron Michel finds an Oak instead of a Reed on which to lean.

XIII. | The Last Knights of Royalty.

XIV.

Jean Oullier lies for the Good of the Cause.

XV.

Jailer and Prisoner escape together.

XVI. | The Battlefield.
XVII. | After the Fight.
XVIII. | The Chateau de la Pénissière.
XIX. | The Moor of Bouaimé.

XX.

The Firm of Aubin Courte-Joie & Co. does Honor to its Partnership.

XXI.

In which Succor comes from an Unexpected Quarter.

XXII. | On the Highway.
XXIII. | What became of Jean Oullier.
XXIV. | Maître Courtin's Batteries.

XXV.

Madame la Baronne de la Logerie, Thinking to serve her Son's interests, serves those of Petit-Pierre.

XXVI. | Marches and Counter-marches.

XXVII.

Michel's Love Affairs seem to be taking a Happier Turn.

XXVIII.

Showing how there may be Fishermen and Fishermen.

XXIX. | Interrogatories and Confrontings.

XXX.

We again meet the General, and find he is not changed.

XXXI.

Courtin meets with Another Disappointment.

XXXII.

The Marquis de Souday drags for Oysters and brings up Picaut.

XXXIII.

That which happened in Two Dwellings.

XXXIV.

Courtin fingers at last his Fifty Thousand Francs.

XXXV.

The Tavern of the Grand Saint-Jacques.

XXXVI. | Judas and Judas.

XXXVII.

An Eye for an Eye, and a Tooth for a Tooth.

XXXVIII. | The Red-Breeches.
XXXIX. | A Wounded Soul.
XL. | The Chimney-back.
XLI. | Three Broken Hearts.
XLII. | God's Executioner.

XLIII.

Shows that a Man with Fifty Thousand Francs about him may be much Embarrassed.

| EPILOGUE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

VOL. I.

Portrait of Dumas Frontispiece
Portrait of Charette
Castle Souday
Portrait of Louis XVIII.
Portrait of Dermoncourt

VOL. II.

Portrait of Louis Philippe
Cathedral of Nantes
Chateau of Nantes

MY MEMOIRS

Vol. I.

By Alexandre Dumas

CONTENTS

BOOK I

CHAPTER I

My birthMy name is disputedExtracts from the official registers of Villers-CotteretsCorbeil ClubMy father's marriage certificateMy motherMy maternal grandfatherLouis-Philippe d'Orléans, father of Philippe-ÉgalitéMadame de MontessonM. de Noailles and the AcademyA morganatic marriage 1

CHAPTER II

My fatherHis birthThe arms of the familyThe serpents of JamaicaThe alligators of St. DomingoMy grandfatherA young man's adventureA first duelM. le duc de Richelieu acts as second for my fatherMy father enlists as a private soldierHe changes his nameDeath of my grandfatherHis death certificate 11

CHAPTER III

My father rejoins his regimentHis portraitHis strengthHis skillThe Nile serpentThe regiment of the King and the regiment of the QueenEarly days of the RevolutionDeclaration of PilnitzThe camp at MauldeThe thirteen Tyrolean chasseursMy father's name is mentioned in the order of the dayFrance under ProvidenceVoluntary enlistmentsSt.-Georges and BoyerMy father lieutenant-colonelThe camp of the MadeleineThe pistols of LepageMy father General of Brigade in the Army of the North 21

CHAPTER IV

My father is sent to join KléberHe is nominated General-in-Chief in the Western PyreneesBouchotte's lettersInstructions of the ConventionThe Representatives of the People who sat at BayonneTheir proclamationIn spite of this proclamation my father remains at BayonneMonsieur de l'Humanité 33

CHAPTER V

My father is appointed General-in-Chief of the Army of the WestHis report on the state of La VendéeMy father is sent to the Army of the Alps as General-in-ChiefState of the armyCapture of Mont Valaisan and of the Little Saint-BernardCapture of Mont CenisMy father is recalled to render an account of his conductWhat he had doneHe is acquitted 43

CHAPTER VI

The result of a sword-stroke across the headSt. Georges and the remountsThe quarrel he sought with my fatherMy father is transferred to the Army of Sambre-et-MeuseHe hands in his resignation and returns to Villers-CotteretsA retrospect over what had happened at home and abroad during the four years that had just elapsed 56

CHAPTER VII

My father at Villers-CotteretsHe is called to Paris to carry out the 13th VendémiaireBonaparte takes his placeHe arrives the next dayBuonaparte's attestationMy father is sent into the district of BouillonHe goes to the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse and to the Army of the Rhine, and is appointed Commandant at LandauHe returns as Divisional General in the Army of the Alps, of which he had been Commander-in-ChiefEnglish blood and honourBonaparte's planBonaparte appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Army of ItalyThe campaign of 1796 69

CHAPTER VIII

My father in the Army of ItalyHe is received at Milan by Bonaparte and JoséphineBonaparte's troubles in ItalyScurvyThe campaign is resumedDiscouragementBattle of Arcole 82

CHAPTER IX

The despatch is sent to BonaparteDermoncourt's receptionBerthier's open responseMilitary movements in consequence of the despatchCorrespondence between my father and Serrurier and DallemagneBattle of St.-Georges and La FavoriteCapture of MantuaMy father as a looker-on 90

CHAPTER X

My father's first breeze with BonaparteMy father is sent to Masséna's army corpsHe shares Joubert's command in the TyrolJoubertThe campaign in the Tyrol 109

BOOK II

CHAPTER I

The bridge of ClausenDermoncourt's reportsPrisoners on paroleLepage's pistolsThree generals-in-chief at the same table 119

CHAPTER II

Joubert's loyalty towards my father"Send me Dumas"The Horatius Codes of the TyrolMy father is appointed Governor of the TrévisanThe agent of the DirectoryMy father fêted at his departureThe treaty of Campo-FormioThe return to ParisThe flag of the Army of ItalyThe charnel-house of MoratCharles the BoldBonaparte is elected a member of the InstituteFirst thoughts of the expedition to EgyptToulonBonaparte and JoséphineWhat was going to happen in Egypt 135

CHAPTER III

The voyageThe landingThe taking of AlexandriaThe Chant du Départ and the Arabian concertThe respited prisonersThe march on CairoRum and biscuitMy father's melonsThe Scientific InstituteBattle of the PyramidsScene of the victoryMy father's letter establishing the truth 151

CHAPTER IV

Admissions of General Dupuis and Adjutant-General BoyerThe malcontentsFinal discussion between Bonaparte and my fatherBattle of AboukirMy father finds treasureHis letter on this subject 161

CHAPTER V

Revolt at CairoMy father enters the Grand Mosque on horsebackHis home-sicknessHe leaves Egypt and lands at NaplesFerdinand and Caroline of NaplesEmma Lyon and NelsonFerdinand's manifestoComments of his minister, Belmonte-Pignatelli 172

CHAPTER VI

Report presented to the French Government by Divisional-General Alexandre Dumas, on his captivity at Taranto and at Brindisi, ports in the Kingdom of Naples 181

CHAPTER VII

My father is exchanged for General MackEvents during his captivityHe asks in vain for a share in the distribution of the 500,000 francs indemnity granted to the prisonersThe arrears of his pay also refused himHe is placed on the retired list, in spite of his energetic protests 197

CHAPTER VIII

Letter from my father to General Brune on my birthThe postscriptMy godfather and godmotherFirst recollections of infancyTopography of the château des Fossés and sketches of some of its inhabitantsThe snake and the frogWhy I asked Pierre if he could swimContinuation of Jocrisse 204

CHAPTER IX

Mocquet's nightmareHis pipeMother DurandLes bêtes fausses et le piergeM. CollardMy father's remedyRadical cure of Mocquet 212

CHAPTER X

Who was Berlick?The fête of Villers-CotteretsFaust and PolichinelleThe sabotsJourney to ParisDolléManetteMadame de Mauclerc's pensionMadame de MontessonPaul and VirginiaMadame de Saint-Aubin 218

CHAPTER XI

Brune and MuratThe return to Villers-CotteretsL'hôtel de l'ÉpéePrincess PaulineThe chaseThe chief forester's permissionMy father takes to his bed never to rise againDeliriumThe gold-headed caneDeath 225

CHAPTER XII

My love for my fatherHis love for meI am taken away to my cousin Marianne'sPlan of the houseThe forgeThe apparitionI learn the death of my fatherI wish to go to heaven to kill GodOur situation at the death of my fatherHatred of Bonaparte 232

BOOK III

CHAPTER I

My mother and I take refuge with my grandfatherMadame Darcourt's houseMy first books and my first terrorsThe park at Villers-CotteretsM. Deviolaine and his familyThe swarm of beesThe old cloister 243

CHAPTER II

The two snakesM. de Valence and Madame de MontessonWho little Hermine wasGarnier the wheelwright and Madame de ValenceMadame LafargeFantastic apparition of Madame de Genlis 253

CHAPTER III

Mademoiselle PivertI make her read the Thousand and One Nights, or, rather, one story in that collectionOld Hiraux, my music-masterThe little worries of his lifeHe takes his revenge on his persecutors after the fashion of the Maréchal de MontlucHe is condemned to be flogged, and nearly loses the sight of his eyesWhat happened on Easter Day in the organ-loft at the monasteryHe becomes a grocer's ladHis vocation leads him to the study of musicI have little aptitude for the violin 259

CHAPTER IV

The dog lantern-bearerDemoustier's epitaphMy first fencing-master"The king drinks"The fourth terror of my lifeThe tub of honey 277

CHAPTER V

My horror of great heightsThe Abbé ConseilMy opening at the SeminaryMy mother, much pressed, decides to enter me thereThe horn inkstandCécile at the grocer'sMy flight 285

CHAPTER VI

The Abbé Grégoire's CollegeThe reception I got thereThe fountains play to celebrate my arrivalThe conspiracy against meBligny challenges me to single combatI win 295

CHAPTER VII

The Abbé FortierThe jealous husband and the viaticumA pleasant visitVictor LetellierThe pocket-pistolI terrify the populationTournemolle is requisitionedHe disarms me 304

CHAPTER VIII

A political chronologyTrouble follows troubleThe fire at the farm at NoneDeath of Stanislas PicotThe hiding-place for the louis d'orThe CossacksThe haricot mutton 315

CHAPTER IX

The quarryFrenchmen eat the haricot cooked for the CossacksThe Duc de TrevisoHe allows himself to be surprisedDucoudray the hosierTerrors 324

CHAPTER X

The return to Villers-Cotterets, and what we met on the wayThe box with the thirty louis in itThe leather-bagThe moleOur departureThe journeyThe arrival at Mensal and our sojourn theirKing JosephThe King of RomeWe leave MensalOur visit to Crispy in ValoisThe dead and woundedThe surrender of ParisThe isle of Elba 331

CHAPTER XI

Am I to be called Davy de La Pailleterie or Alexandre Dumas?Deus dedit, Deus dabitThe tobacco-shopThe cause of the Emperor Napoleon's fall, as it appeared to my writing-masterMy first communionHow I prepared for it 345

BOOK IV

CHAPTER I

Auguste LafargeBird-snaring on a large scaleA wonderful catchAn epigramI wish to write French versesMy method of translating Virgil and TacitusMontananMy political opinions 355

CHAPTER II

The single-barrelled gunQuiot BicheBiche and Boudoux comparedI become a poacherIt is proposed to issue a writ against meMadame Darcourt as plenipotentiaryHow it happened that Cretan's writ caused me no bother 363

CHAPTER III

Bonaparte's landing at the Gulf of JuanProclamations and OrdonnancesLouis XVIII. and M. de VitrollesCornu the hatterNewspaper information 374

CHAPTER IV

General ExelmansHis trialThe two brothers LallemandTheir conspiracyThey are arrested and led through Villers-CotteretsThe affronts to which they were subjected 382

CHAPTER V

My mother and I conspireThe secretM. RichardLa pistole and the pistolsThe offer made to the brothers Lallemand in order to save themThey refuseI meet one of them, twenty-eight years later, at the house of M. le duc de Cazes 389

CHAPTER VI

Napoleon and the AlliesThe French army and the Emperor pass through Villers-CotteretsBearers of ill tidings 402

CHAPTER VII

WaterlooThe ÉlyséeLa Malmaison 411

CHAPTER VIII

CæsarCharlemagneNapoleon 421

CHAPTER IX

The routThe haricot mutton reappearsM. Picot the lawyerBy diplomatic means, he persuades my mother to let me go shooting with himI despise sleep, food and drink 427

CHAPTER X

Trapping larksI wax strong in the matter of my compositionsThe wounded partridgeI take the consequences whatever they areThe farm at BrassoireM. Deviolaine's sally at the accouchement of his wife 435

CHAPTER XI

M. Moquet de BrassoireThe ambuscadeThree hares charge meWhat prevents me from being the king of the battueBecause I did not take the bull by the horns, I just escape being disembowelled by itSabine and her puppies 441

BOOK V

CHAPTER I

The second period of my youthForest-keepers and sailorsChoron, Moinat, Mildet, BerthelinLa Maison-Neuve 449

CHAPTER II

Choron and the mad dogNiquet, otherwise called BobinoHis mistressThe boar-huntThe killBobino's triumphHe is decoratedThe boar which he had killed rises again 456

CHAPTER III

Boars and keepersThe bullet of Robin-des-BoisThe pork-butcher 464

CHAPTER IV

A wolf-huntSmall townsChoron's tragic death 474

CHAPTER V

My mother realises that I am fifteen years old, and that la marette and la pipée will not lead to a brilliant future for meI enter the office of Me. Mennesson, notary, as errand-boy, otherwise guttersnipeMe. Mennesson and his clerksLa Fontaine-Eau-Claire 483

CHAPTER VI

Who the assassin was and who the assassinatedAuguste PicotEquality before the lawLast exploits of MarotHis execution 491

CHAPTER VII

Spring at Villers-CotteretsWhitsuntideThe Abbé Grégoire invites me to dance with his nieceRed booksThe Chevalier de FaublasLaurence and VittoriaA dandy of 1818 499

CHAPTER VIII

I leap the HahaA slit followsThe two pairs of glovesThe quadrilleFourcade's triumphI pick up the crumbsThe waltzThe child becomes a man 508

MY MEMOIRS

Vol. II., 1822 to 1825

By Alexandre Dumas

CONTENTS

BOOK I

CHAPTER I

An unpublished chapter from the Diable boiteuxHistory of Samud and the beautiful Doña Lorenza 1

CHAPTER II

The good my flouting at the hands of the two Parisians had done meThe young girls of Villers-CotteretsMy three friendsFirst love affairs 13

CHAPTER III

Adolphe de LeuvenHis familyUnpublished details concerning the death of Gustavus III.The Count de RibbingThe shoemakers of the château de Villers-Hellon 24

CHAPTER IV

Adolphe's quatrainThe water-hen and King WilliamLunch in the woodThe irritant powder, the frogs and the cockThe doctor's spectreDe Leuven, Hippolyte Leroy and I are exiled from the drawing-roomUnfortunate result of a geographical errorM. Paroisse 34

CHAPTER V

Amédée de la PonceHe teaches me what work isM. Arnault and his two sonsA journey by diligenceA gentleman fights me with cough lozenges and I fight him with my fistsI learn the danger from which I escaped 48

CHAPTER VI

First dramatic impressionsThe Hamlet of DucisThe Bourbons en 1815Quotations from it 57

CHAPTER VII

The events of 1814 againMarmont, Duc de Raguse, Maubreuil and Roux-Laborie at M. de Talleyrand'sThe Journal des Débats and the Journal de ParisLyrics of the Bonapartists and enthusiasm of the BourbonsEnd of the Maubreuil affairPlot against the life of the EmperorThe Queen of Westphalia is robbed of her money and jewels 63

CHAPTER VIII

Account of the proceedings relative to the abstraction of the jewels of the Queen of Westphalia by the Sieur de MaubreuilChamber of the Court of AppealThe sitting of 17 April, 1817 88

BOOK II

CHAPTER I

The last shot of WaterlooTemper of the provinces in 1817, 1818 and 1819The MesséniennesThe Vêpres siciliennesLouis IX.Appreciation of these two tragediesA phrase of TerenceMy claim to a similar sentimentThree o'clock in the morningThe course of love-makingValeat res ludrica 96

CHAPTER II

Return of Adolphe de LeuvenHe shows me a corner of the artistic and literary worldThe death of Holbein and the death of OrcagnaEntrance into the green-roomsBürger's LénoreFirst thoughts of my vocation 103

CHAPTER III

The Cerberus of the rue de LargnyI tame itThe ambushMadame LebègueA confession 109

CHAPTER IV

De Leuven makes me his collaboratorThe Major de StrasbourgMy first couplet-ChauvinThe Dîner d'amisThe Abencérages 117

CHAPTER V

Unrecorded stories concerning the assassination of the Duc de Berry. 123

CHAPTER VI

Carbonarism 132

CHAPTER VII

My hopesDisappointmentM. Deviolaine is appointed forest-ranger to the Duc d'OrléansHis coldness towards meHalf promisesFirst cloud on my love-affairsI go to spend three months with my brother-in-law at DreuxThe news waiting for me on my returnMuphtiWalls and hedgesThe summer-houseTennisWhy I gave up playing itThe wedding party in the wood 147

CHAPTER VIII

I leave Villers-Cotterets to be second or third clerk at CrespyM. LefèvreHis characterMy journeys to Villers-CotteretsThe Pélerinage d'ErmenonvilleAthénaïsNew matter sent to AdolpheAn uncontrollable desire to pay a visit to ParisHow this desire was accomplishedThe journeyHôtel des Vieux-AugustinsAdolpheSyllaTalma 155

CHAPTER IX

The theatre ticketThe Café du RoiAuguste LafargeThéaulonRochefortFerdinand LangléPeople who dine and people who don'tCanarisFirst sight of TalmaAppreciation of Mars and RachelWhy Talma has no successorSylla and the CensorshipTalma's boxA cab-drive after midnightThe return to CrespyM. Lefèvre explains that a machine, in order to work well, needs all its wheelsI hand in my resignation as his third clerk 166

BOOK III

CHAPTER I

I return to my mother'sThe excuse I give concerning my returnThe calfs lightsPyramus and CartoucheThe intelligence of the fox more developed than that of the dogDeath of CartouchePyramus's various gluttonous habits 184

CHAPTER II

Hope in LaffitteA false hopeNew projectsM. LecomierHow and on what conditions I clothe myself anewBamps, tailor, 12 rue du HelderBamps at Villers-CotteretsI visit our estate along with himPyramus follows a butcher ladAn Englishman who loved gluttonous dogsI sell PyramusMy first hundred francsThe use to which they are putBamps departs for ParisOpen credit 191

CHAPTER III

My mother is obliged to sell her land and her houseThe residuThe PiranèsesAn architect at twelve hundred francs salaryI discount my first billGondonHow I was nearly killed at his houseThe fifty francsCartierThe game of billiardsHow six hundred small glasses of absinthe equalled twelve journeys to Paris 204

CHAPTER IV

How I obtain a recommendation to General FoyM. Danré of Vouty advises my mother to let me go to ParisMy good-byesLaffitte and PerregauxThe three things which Maître Mennesson asks me not to forgetThe Abbé Grégoire's advice and the discussion with himI leave Villers-Cotterets 213

CHAPTER V

I find Adolphe againThe pastoral dramaFirst stepsThe Duc de BelluneGeneral SébastianiHis secretaries and his snuff-boxesThe fourth floor, small door to the leftThe general who painted battles 223

CHAPTER VI

RégulusTalma and the playGeneral FoyThe letter of recommendation and the interviewThe Duc de Bellune's replyI obtain a place as temporary clerk with M. le Duc d'OrléansJourney to Villers-Cotterets to tell my mother the good newsNo. 9I gain a prize in a lottery 234

CHAPTER VII

I find lodgingsHiraux's sonJournals and journalists in 1823By being saved the expense of a dinner I am enabled to go to the play at the Porte-Saint-MartinMy entry into the pitSensation caused by my hairI am turned outHow I am obliged to pay for three places in order to have oneA polite gentleman who reads Elzevirs 251

CHAPTER VIII

My neighbourHis portraitThe Pastissier françoisA course in bibliomaniaMadame Méchin and the governor of SoissonsCannons and Elzevirs 263

CHAPTER IX

Prologue of the VampireThe style offends my neighbour's earFirst actIdealogyThe rotiferWhat the animal isIts conformation, its life, its death and its resurrection 272

CHAPTER X

Second act of the VampireAnalysisMy neighbour again objectsHe has seen a vampireWhere and howA statement which records the existence of vampiresNeroWhy he established the race of hired applaudersMy neighbour leaves the orchestra 284

CHAPTER XI

A parenthesisHariadan Barberousse at Villers-CotteretsI play the rôle of Don Ramire as an amateurMy costumeThe third act of the VampireMy friend the bibliomaniac whistles at the most critical momentHe is expelled from the theatreMadame Allan-DorvalHer family and her childhoodPhilippeHis death and his funeral 295

BOOK IV

CHAPTER I

My beginning at the officeErnest BassetLassagneM. OudardI see M. DeviolaineM. le Chevalier de BrovalHis portraitFolded letters and oblong lettersHow I acquire a splendid reputation for sealing lettersI learn who was my neighbour the bibliomaniac and whistler 307

CHAPTER II

Illustrious contemporariesThe sentence written on my foundation stoneMy replyI settle down in the place des ItaliensM. de Leuven's tableM. Louis-Bonaparte's witty sayingLassagne gives me my first lesson in literature and history 323

CHAPTER III

Adolphe reads a play at the GymnaseM. DormeuilKenilworth CastleM. Warez and SouliéMademoiselle LévesqueThe Arnault familyThe FeuilleMarius à MinturnesDanton's epigramThe reversed passportThree fablesGermanicus Inscriptions and epigramsRamponneauThe young man and the tilburyExtra ecclesiam nulla est salusMadame Arnault 334

CHAPTER IV

Frédéric Soulié, his character, his talentChoruses of the various plays, sung as prologues and epiloguesTransformation of the vaudevilleThe Gymnase and M. ScribeThe Folie de Waterloo 349

CHAPTER V

The Duc d'OrléansMy first interview with himMaria-Stella-ChiappiniHer attempts to gain rankHer historyThe statement of the Duc d'OrléansJudgment of the Ecclesiastical Court of FaenzaRectification of Maria-Stella's certificate of birth 360

CHAPTER VI

The "year of trials"The case of Potier and the director of the theatre of the Porte-Saint-MartinTrial and condemnation of MagallonThe anonymous journalistBeaumarchais sent to Saint-LazareA few words on censorships in generalTrial of Benjamin ConstantTrial of M. de JouyA few words concerning the author of SyllaThree letters extracted from the Ermite de la Chaussée-d'AntinLouis XVIII. as author 375

CHAPTER VII

The house in the rue ChaillotFour poets and a doctorCorneille and the CensorshipThings M. Faucher does not knowThings the President of the Republic ought to know 389

BOOK V

CHAPTER I

Chronology of the dramaMademoiselle Georges WeymerMademoiselle RaucourtLegouvé and his worksMarie-Joseph ChénierHis letter to the company of the Comédie-FrançaiseYoung boys perfectionnésDucisHis work 398

CHAPTER II

Bonaparte's attempts at discovering poetsLuce de LancivalBaour-LormianLebrun-PindareLucien Bonaparte, the authorDébut of Mademoiselle GeorgesThe Abbé Geoffroy's critiquePrince ZappiaHermione at Saint-Cloud 407

CHAPTER III

Imperial literatureThe Jeunesse de Henri IVMercier and Alexandre DuvalThe Templiers and their authorCésar DelrieuPerpignanMademoiselle Georges' rupture with the Théâtre-FrançaisHer flight to RussiaThe galaxy of kingsThe tragédienne acts as ambassador 420

CHAPTER IV

The Comédie-Française at DresdenGeorges returns to the Théâtre-FrançaisThe Deux GendresMahomet II.Tippo-Saëb1814FontainebleauThe allied armies enter ParisLiliesReturn from the isle of ElbaVioletsAsparagus stalksGeorges returns to Paris 430

CHAPTER V

The drawbacks to theatres which have the monopoly of a great actorLafond takes the rôle of Pierre de Portugal upon Talma declining itLafondHis schoolHis sayingsMademoiselle DuchesnoisHer failings and her abilities-Pierre de Portugal succeeds 438

CHAPTER VI

General RiégoHis attempted insurrectionHis escape and flightHe is betrayed by the brothers LaraHis trialHis execution 445

CHAPTER VII

The inn of the Tête-NoireAuguste BalletCastaingHis trialHis attitude towards the audience and his words to the juryHis execution 452

CHAPTER VIII

Casimir DelavigneAn appreciation of the man and of the poetThe origin of the hatred of the old school of literature for the newSome reflections upon Marino Faliero and the Enfants d'ÉdouardWhy Casimir Delavigne was more a comedy writer than a tragic poetWhere he found the ideas for his chief plays 465

CHAPTER IX

Talma in the École des VieillardsOne of his lettersOrigin of his name and of his familyTamerlan at the pension VerdierTalma's débutDugazon's adviceMore advice from ShakespeareOpinions of the critics of the day upon the débutantTalma's passion for his art 480

MY MEMOIRS

Vol. III

1826 TO 1830

By Alexandre Dumas

CONTENTS

BOOK I

CHAPTER I

I become a fully fledged employéBad playsThibautMy studies with himWhere they have been of use to meAmaury and the consumptivesMy readingWalter ScottCooperByronThe pleasure of eating sauerkraut at the Parthenon. 1

CHAPTER II

Byron's childhoodHis grief at being lameMary DuffThe Malvern fortune-tellerHow Byron and Robert Peel became acquaintedMiss ParkerMiss ChaworthVerses on her portraitMrs. MustersLady MorganEnglish Bards and Scotch ReviewersByron's letters to his motherHe takes his seat in the House of Lords. 3

CHAPTER III

Byron at LisbonHow he quarrelled with his own countrymenHis poem Childe HaroldHis fits of mad folly and subsequent depressionHis marriageHis conjugal squabblesHe again quits EnglandHis farewell to wife and childHis life and amours at VeniceHe sets out for GreeceHis arrival at MissolonghiHis illness and death. 21

CHAPTER IV

Usurped celebrityM. Lemercier and his worksRacan's white hareLe Fiesque by M. AncelotThe Romantic artists SchefferDelacroixSigalonSchnetzCoignietBoulanger GéricaultLa Méduse in the artist's studioLord Byron's funeral obsequies in EnglandSheridan's body claimed for debt. 42

CHAPTER V

My mother comes to live with meA Duc de Chartres born to meChateaubriand and M. de VillèleEpistolary brevityRe-establishment of the CensorshipA King of France should never be illBulletins of the health of Louis XVIII.His last moments and deathOde by Victor HugoM. Torbet and Napoleon's tombLa Fayette's voyage to AmericaThe ovations showered upon him. 54

CHAPTER VI

Tallancourt and BetzThe café HollandaisMy Quiroga cloakFirst challengeA lesson in shootingThe eve of my duelAnalysis of my sensationsMy opponent fails to keep his appointmentThe seconds hunt him outThe duelTallancourt and the mad dog. 65

CHAPTER VII

The Duc d'Orléans is given the title of Royal HighnessThe coronation of Charles X.Account of the ceremony by Madame la Duchesse d'OrléansDeath of Ferdinand of NaplesDe La ville de MiremontLe Cid d'AndalousieM. Pierre LebrunA reading at the camp at CompiègneM. Taylor is appointed a royal commissioner to the Théâtre-FrançaisThe curé BergeronM. ViennetTwo of his lettersPichat and his Léonidas. 75

CHAPTER VIII

Death of General FoyHis funeralThe Royal HighnessAssassination of Paul-Louis CourierDeath of the Emperor AlexanderComparison of England and RussiaThe reason why these two powers have increased during the last centuryHow Napoleon meant to conquer India. 87

CHAPTER IX

The Emperor AlexanderLetter from Czar Nicolas to KaramsineHistory after the style of Suetonius and Saint-SimonCatherine and PotemkinMadame BraniskaThe cost of the imperial cab-driveA ball at M. de Caulaincourt'sThe man with the pipeThe emperor's boatman and coachman. 100

CHAPTER X

Alexander leaves St. PetersburgHis presentiments of his deathThe two stars seen at TaganrogThe emperor's illnessHis last momentsHow they learnt of his death in St. PetersburgThe Grand-Duke ConstantineHis character and tastesWhy he renounced his right to the imperial throneJeannette Groudzenska. 115

BOOK II

CHAPTER I

Rousseau and RomieuConversation with the porterThe eight hours' candleThe Deux MagotsAt what hour one should wind up one's watchM. le sous-préfet enjoys a jokeHenry MonnierA paragraph of informationOn suppersOn cigars. 131

CHAPTER II

The lanternLe Chasse et l'AmourRousseau's part in itThe couplet about the hareThe couplet de factureHow there may be hares and haresReception at l'AmbiguMy first receipts as an authorWho Porcher wasWhy no one might say anything against Mélesville. 144

CHAPTER III

The success of my first playMy three storiesM. Marle and his orthographyMadame SetierA bad speculationThe Pâtre, by MontvoisinThe OreillerMadame Desbordes-ValmoreHow she became a poetessMadame Amable TastuThe Dernier jour de l'annéeZéphire. 160

CHAPTER IV

Talma's illnessHow he would have acted TassoHis nephewsHe receives a visit from M. de QuélenWhy his children renounced his faithHis deathLa Noce et l'EnterrementOudard lectures me on my fondness for theatre-goingThe capital reply that put the Palais-Royal in a gay humourI still keep the confidence of Lassagne and de la PonceI obtain a success anonymously at the Porte-Saint-Martin. 173

CHAPTER V

Soulié at the mechanical saw-millHis platonic love of goldI desire to write a drama with himI translate FiesqueDeath of Auguste LafargeMy pay is increased and my position loweredFélix Deviolaine, condemned by the medical faculty, is saved by illnessLouis XI. à PéronneTalma's theatrical wardrobeThe loi de justice et d'amourThe disbanding of the National Guard. 187

CHAPTER VI

English actors in ParisLiterary importationsTrente Ans, or la Vie d'un JoueurThe Hamlet of Kemble and Miss SmithsonA bas-relief of Mademoiselle de FauveauVisit to Frédéric SouliéHe declines to write Christine with meA night attackI come across Adèle d'Alvin once moreI spend the night au violon. 198

CHAPTER VII

Future landmarksCompliments to the Duc de BordeauxVotesCauchois-Lemaire's Orléaniste brochureThe lake of EnghienColonel Bro's parrotDoctor FerrusMorriselA tip-top funeral cortègeHunting in full cryAn autopsyExplanation of the death of the parrot. 207

CHAPTER VIII

Barthélemy and MéryM. Éliça GallayMéry the draught-player and anatomistL'Épître à Sidi MahmoudThe Ponthieu librarySouléThe VilléliadeBarthélemy the printerMéry the improvisatorThe Voux de la nouvelle annéeThe pastiche of Lucrèce. 223

CHAPTER IX

I pass from the Secretarial Department to the Record OfficeM. BichetWherein I resemble PironMy spare timeM. Pieyre and M. Parseval de GrandmaisonA scene missing in DistraitLa PeyrouseA success all to myself. 239

CHAPTER X

The painter LethièreBrutus unveiled by M. PonsardMadame HannemannGohierAndrieuxRenaudDesgenettesLarrey, Augereau and the Egyptian mummySoldiers of the new schoolMy dramatic educationI enter the offices of the Forestry DepartmentThe cupboard full of empty bottlesThree days away from the officeAm summoned before M. Deviolaine. 250

CHAPTER XI

Conclusion of ChristineA patron, after a fashionNodier recommends me to TaylorThe Royal Commissary and the author of HécubeSemi-official reading before TaylorOfficial reading before the CommitteeI am received with acclamationThe intoxication of successHow history is writtenM. Deviolaine's incredulityPicard's opinions concerning my playNodier's opinionSecond reading at the Théâtre-Français and definite acceptance. 262

CHAPTER XII

Cordelier-DelanoueA sitting of the AthénéeM. VillenaveHis familyThe one hundred and thirty-two NantaisCathelineauThe hunt aux bleusForestA chapter of historySauveurThe Royalist CommitteeSouchuThe miraculous tombCarrier. 278

CHAPTER XIII

M. Villenave's houseThe master's despotic ruleThe savant's coquetryDescription of the sanctuary of the man of scienceI am admitted, thanks to an autograph of BuonaparteThe crevice in the wallThe eight thousand foliosThe pastel by LatourVoyages of discovery for an Elzevir or a FaustThe fall of the portrait and the death of the original. 292

CHAPTER XIV

First representation of Soulié's Roméo et JulietteAnaïs and LockroyWhy French actresses cannot act JulietThe studies of the ConservatoireA second Christine at the Théâtre-FrançaisM. Évariste Dumoulin and Madame ValmonzeyConspiracy against meI give up my turn to have my play producedHow I found the subject of Henri III.My opinion of that play. 308

CHAPTER XV

The reading of Henri III. at M. Villenave's and M. Roqueplan'sAnother reading at Firmin'sBéranger is presentA few words about his influence and popularityEffect produced by my dramaReception by the Comédie-FrançaiseStruggle for the distribution of partsM. de Broval's ultimatumConvicted of the crime of poetry I appeal to the Duc d'OrléansHis Royal Highness withholds my salaryM. Laffitte lends me three thousand francsCondemnation of Béranger. 318

CHAPTER XVI

The Duc d'Orléans has my salary stoppedA scribbler (folliculaire)Henri III. and the CensorshipMy mother is seized with paralysisCazalEdmond HalphenA call on the Duc d'OrléansFirst night of Henri III.Effect is produced on M. DeviolaineM. de Broval's congratulations. 328

CHAPTER XVII

The day following my victoryHenri III. is interdictedI obtain an audience with M. de MartignacHe removes the interdiction-Les hommes-obstaclesThe Duc d'Orléans sends for me into his boxHis talk with Charles X. on the subject of my dramaAnother scribblerVisit to CarrelGosset's shooting-box and pistols No. 5An impossible duel. 341

BOOK III

CHAPTER I

The ArsenalNodier's houseThe master's profileThe congress of bibliophilesThe three candlesDebureauMademoiselle Mars and MerlinNodier's familyHis friendsIn which houses I am at my bestThe salon of the ArsenalNodier as a teller of talesThe ball and the warming-pan. 351

CHAPTER II

Oudard transmits to me the desires of the Duc d'OrléansI am appointed assistant librarianHow this saved His Highness four hundred francsRivalry with Casimir DelavignePetition of the Classical School against Romantic productionsLetter of support from Mademoiselle DuchesnoisA fantastic danceThe person who called Racine a blackguardFine indignation of the ConstitutionnelFirst representation of Marino Faliero 365

CHAPTER III

MesmerismExperiment during a tranceI submit to being mesmerisedMy observation upon itI myself start to mesmeriseExperiment made in a diligenceAnother experiment in the house of the procureur de la République of JoignyLittle Marie D****Her political predictionsI cure her of fear. 380

CHAPTER IV

Fresh trials of newspaper editorsThe Mouton-enragéFontanHarel's witticism concerning himThe Fils de l'Homme before the Police CourtThe author pleads his cause in verseM. Guillebert's prosePrison charges at Sainte-PélagieEmbarrassment of the Duc d'Orléans about a historical portraitThe two usurpations. 395

CHAPTER V

The things that are the greatest enemies to the success of a playThe honesty of Mademoiselle Mars as an actressHer dressing-roomThe habitués at her supper-partiesVatoutDenniéeBecquetMornayMademoiselle Mars in her own homeHer last days on the stageMaterial result of the success of Henri III.My first speculationThe recasting of ChristineWhere I looked for my inspirationTwo other ideas. 408

CHAPTER VI

Victor HugoHis birthHis motherLes Chassebouf and les CornetCaptain HugoThe signification of his nameVictor's godfatherThe Hugo family in CorsicaM. Hugo is called to Naples by Joseph BonaparteHe is appointed colonel and governor of the province of AvellinoRecollections of the poet's early childhoodFra DiavoloJoseph, King of SpainColonel Hugo is made a general, count, marquis and major-domoThe Archbishop of TarragonaMadame Hugo and her children in ParisThe convent of Feuillantines. 420

CHAPTER VII

Departure for SpainJourney from Paris to BayonneThe treasureOrder of march of the convoyM. du SaillantM. de CotadillaIrunErnaniSalinasThe battalion of écloppés (cripples)Madame Hugo's supplies of provisionsThe forty Dutch grenadiersMondragonThe precipiceBurgosCeladasAlerteThe queen's review. 435

CHAPTER VIII

SegoviaM. de TillyThe AlcazarThe doubloonsThe castle of M. de la Calprenède and that of a Spanish grandeeThe bourdaloueOteroThe Dutchmen againThe GuadarramaArrival at MadridThe palace of MasseranoThe cometThe CollegeDon Manoël and Don BazilioTacitus and PlautusLilloThe winter of 1812 to 1813The EmpecinadoThe glass of eau sucréeThe army of merinoesReturn to Paris. 450

CHAPTER IX

The college and the garden of the FeuillantinesGrenadier or generalVictor Hugo's first appearance in publicHe obtains honourable mention at the Academy examinationHe carries off three prizes in the Jeux FlorauxHan d'IslandeThe poet and the bodyguardHugo's marriageThe Odes et BalladesProposition made by cousin Cornet. 466

CHAPTER X

LéopoldineThe opinions of the son of the VendéenneThe Delon conspiracyHugo offers Delon shelterLouis XVIII. bestows a pension of twelve hundred francs on the author of the Odes et BalladesThe poet at the office of the director-general des postesHow he learns the existence of the cabinet noirHe is made a chevalier of the Legion d'honneurBeauchesne-Bug-JargalThe Ambassador of Austria's soiréeOde à la ColonneCromwellHow Marion Delorme was written. 480

CHAPTER XI

Reading of Marion Delorme at the house of DevériaSteeplechase of directorsMarion Delorme is stopped by the CensorshipHugo obtains an audience with Charles X.His drama is definitely interdictedThey send him the brevet of a pension, which he declinesHe sets to work on Hernani and completes it in twenty-four days. 496

CHAPTER XII

The invasion of barbariansRehearsals of HernaniMademoiselle Mars and the lines about the lionThe scene over the portraitsHugo takes away from Mademoiselle Mars the part of Doña SolMichelot's flattering complaisance to the publicThe quatrain about the cupboardJoanny. 507

CHAPTER XIII

Alfred de VignyThe man and his worksHarel, the manager at the OdéonDownfall of Soulié's ChristineParenthesis about LassaillyLetter of Harel, with preface by myself and postscript by SouliéI read my Christine at the OdéonHarel asks me to put it into proseFirst representation of the More de VeniseThe actors and the papers. 521

CHAPTER XIV

Citizen-general BarrasDoctor Cabarrus introduces me to himBarras's only two regretsHis dinnersThe Princess de Chimay's footmanFauche-BorelThe Duc de Bordeaux makes a messHistory lesson given to an ambassadorWalter Scott and BarrasThe last happiness of the old directeurHis death. 535

MY MEMOIRS

Vol. IV

Alexandre Dumas

CONTENTS

BOOK I

CHAPTER I

Mademoiselle Georges' houseHarel and Jules JaninYoung Tom and PopolThe latter's prayer against choleraGeorges' Oriental style of livingHer cleanlinessHarel's fault to the contraryTwenty-four thousand francs flung out of the windowSaint AnthonyPiaff-PiaffHis dissolutenessHis deathHis funeral oration 1

CHAPTER II

M. Briffaut, Censor and AcademicianHistory of Ninus II.M. de LourdoueixThe idea of AntonyThe piece received by the Français is stopped by the CensorshipThe Duc de ChartresNegotiations for his presence with that of his two brothers at the first representation of ChristineLouëtAn autograph of the Prince Royal 9

CHAPTER III

The first representation of HernaniThe old ace of spadesThe old man has a quarrelParodiesOrigin of the story of Cabrion and of PipeletEugène Sue and DesmaresSoulié returns to meHe offers me fifty of his workmen in the capacity of applaudersFirst representation of ChristineA supper at my lodgingsHugo and de Vigny correct the objectionable lines 23

CHAPTER IV

A passing cabMadame Dorval in the IncendiaireTwo actressesThe Duc d'Orléans asks for the Cross of the Legion of Honour on my behalfHis recommendation has no effectM. EmpisMadame Lafond's SalonMy costume as ArnauteMadame MalibranBrothers and sisters in Art 34

CHAPTER V

Why the Duc d'Orléans' recommendation on the subject of my croix d'honneur failedThe indemnity of a milliardLa Fayette's journey to AuvergneHis reception at Grenoble, Vizille and at LyonsCharles X.'s journey to AlsaceVarennes and NancyOpening of the ChambersThe royal speech and the Address of the 221Article 14The conquest of Algiers and the recapture of our Rhine frontiers 44

CHAPTER VI

The soirée on 31 May 1830 at the Palais-RoyalThe King of NaplesA question of etiquetteHow the King of France ought to be addressedThe real Charles X.M. de SalvandyThe first flames of the volcanoThe Duc de Chartres sends me to inquire into the commotionAlphonse SignolI tear him from the clutches of a soldier of the Garde royalHis irritation and threatsThe volcano nothing but a fire of straw 54

CHAPTER VII

A pressing affairOne witness lost, and two foundRochefortSignol at the Théâtre des ItaliensHe insults Lieutenant MarulazThe two swordsThe duelSignol is killedVictorine and le ChiffonnierDeath steps in 61

BOOK II

CHAPTER I

Alphonse KarrThe cuirassierThe medal for life saving and the Cross of the Légion d'honneurKarr's home at MontmartreSous les tilleuls and the criticsThe taking of AlgiersM. Dupin seniorWhy he did not write his MemoirsSigning of the Ordinances of JulyReasons that prevented my going to Algiers 67

CHAPTER II

The third storey of No. 7 in the rue de l'UniversitéThe first results of the OrdinancesThe café du RoiÉtienne AragoFrançois AragoThe AcademyLa BourseLe Palais-RoyalMadame de LeuvenJourney in search of her husband and sonProtest of the journalistsNames of the signatories 77

CHAPTER III

The morning of July 27Visit to my motherPaul FoucherAmy RobsartArmand CarrelThe office of the TempsBaudeThe Commissary of PoliceThe three locksmithsThe office of the NationalCadet GassicourtColonel GourgaudM. de RémusatPhysiognomy of the passers-by 86

CHAPTER IV

Doctor ThibautThe Government of Gérard and MortemartÉtienne Arago and Mazue, the Superintendent of PoliceThe café GobillardFire at the guard-house in the place de la BourseThe first barricadesThe night 97

CHAPTER V

The morning of the 27thJoubertCharles TesteLa Petite JacobinièreChemist RobinetThe arms used in Sergent MathieuPillage of an armourer's storesThe three Royal GuardsA tall and fair young manOudard's fears 105

CHAPTER VI

The aspect of the rue de RichelieuCharrasL'École polytechniqueThe head with the wigThe café of the Porte Saint-HonoréThe tricoloured flagI become head of a troopMy landlord gives me noticeA gentleman who distributes powderThe captain of the 15th Light Infantry 114

CHAPTER VII

The attack on the Hôtel de VilleRoutI take refuge at M. Lethière'sThe newsMy landlord becomes generousGeneral La FayetteTaschereauBérangerThe list of the Provisional GovernmentHonest mistake of the Constitutionnel 125

CHAPTER VIII

Invasion of the Artillery MuseumArmour of François I.Charles IX.'s arquebuseLa place de l'OdéonWhat Charras had been doingThe uniform of the École polytechniqueMillotteThe prison MontaiguThe barracks of l'EstrapadeD'HostelA BonapartistRiding-master ChopinLothonThe general in command 134

CHAPTER IX

Aspect of the LouvreFight on the Pont des ArtsThe dead and woundedA cannon ball for myselfMadame Guyet-DesfontainesReturn from the Babylone barracksCharras's cockadeThe taking of the TuileriesA copy of ChristineQuadrille danced in the Tuileries courtThe men who made the Revolution of 1830 149

BOOK III

CHAPTER I

I go in search of OudardThe house at the corner of the rue de RohanOudard is with LaffitteDegouséeGeneral Pajol and M. DupinThe officers of the 53rd RegimentInterior of Laffitte's salonPanicA deputation comes to offer La Fayette the command of ParisHe acceptsÉtienne Arago and the tricoloured cockadeHistory of the Hôtel de Ville from eight in the morning to half-past three in the afternoon 164

CHAPTER II

General La Fayette at the Hôtel de VilleCharras and his men"The Prunes of Monsieur"The Municipal CommissionIts first ActCasimir Périer's bankGeneral GérardThe Duc de ChoiseulWhat happened at Saint-CloudThe three negotiatorsIt is too lateM. d'Argout with Laffitte 175

CHAPTER III

Alexander de la BordeOdilon BarrotColonel DumoulinHippolyte BonnelierMy studyA note in Oudard's handwritingThe Duc de Chartres is arrested at MontrougeThe danger he incurred and how he was savedI propose to go to Soissons to fetch gunpowderI procure my commission from General GérardLa Fayette draws up a proclamation for meThe painter bardM. Thiers to the fore once more 187

CHAPTER IV

Gee up, Polignac!André MarchaisPost-master at BourgetI display the Tricolour on my carriageBard joins meM. Cunin-GridaineOld LevasseurStruggle with himI blow out his brains!Two old acquaintancesThe terror of Jean-LouisOur halt at Villers-CotteretsHutinSupper with Paillet 203

CHAPTER V

Arrival at SoissonsStrategic preparationsReconnaissance round the magazineHutin and Bard plant the tricolour flag upon the cathedralI climb the wall of the powder magazineCaptain MollardSergeant RagonLieutenant-Colonel d'OrcourtParleys with themThey promise me neutrality 217

CHAPTER VI

How matters had proceeded with the sacristanThe four-inch gunBard as gunnerThe commander of the fortLieutenant TingaM. de LenfernaM. BonvilliersMadame de LinièresThe revolt of the negroesThe conditions upon which the commander of the fort signed the orderM. MoreauM. QuinetteThe Mayor of SoissonsBard and the green plums 224

CHAPTER VII

The Mayor of SoissonsThe excise-office powderM. Jousselin The hatchet belonging to the warehouse-keeperM. QuinetteI break open the door of the powder magazineTriumphant exit from SoissonsM. Mennesson attempts to have me arrestedThe Guards of the Duc d'OrléansM. BoyerReturn to Paris"Those devils of Republicans!" 234

CHAPTER VIII

First Orléanist proclamationMM. Thiers and Scheffer go to NeuillyThe evening at Saint-CloudCharles X. revokes the OrdinancesRepublican deputation at the Hôtel de VilleM. de SussyAudry de PuyraveauRepublican proclamationLa Fayette's reply to the Duc de MortemartCharras and Mauguin 245

CHAPTER IX

Philippe VII.How Béranger justified himself for having helped to make a KingThe Duc d'Orléans during the three daysHis arrival in Paris on the evening of the 30thHe sends for M. de MortemartUnpublished letter by him to Charles X.Benjamin Constant and LaffitteDeputation of the Chamber to the Palais-RoyalM. SébastianiM. de TalleyrandThe Duc d'Orléans accepts the Lieutenant-Generalship of the KingdomCurious papers found at the Tuileries 239

CHAPTER X

The Duc d'Orléans goes to the Hôtel de VilleM. Laffitte in his sedan-chairThe king sans culotteTardy manifestation of the Provisional GovernmentOdilon Barrot sleeps on a milestoneAnother Balthasar GérardThe Duc d'Orléans is received by La FayetteA superb voiceFresh appearance of general DubourgThe balcony of the Hôtel de VilleThe road to Joigny 276

BOOK IV

CHAPTER I

M. Thiers' way of writing historyRepublicans at the Palais-RoyalLouis-Philippe's first ministryCasimir Périer's cunningMy finest dramaLothon and CharrasA sword-thrustThe posting-master of Bourget once moreLa FèreLieutenant-Colonel DuriveauLothon and General La Fayette 284

CHAPTER II

Letter of Charles X. to the Duc d'OrléansA conjuring trickReturn of the Duc de Chartres to the Palais-RoyalBourbons and ValoisAbdication of Charles X.Preparations for the expedition of RambouilletAn idea of HarelThe scene-shifters of the OdéonNineteen persons in one fiacreDistribution of arms at the Palais-RoyalColonel Jacqueminot 309

CHAPTER III

Mission of four commissioners to Charles X.General PajolHe is appointed commander of the Paris VolunteersCharras offers to be his aide-de-campThe map of Seine-et-OiseThe spiesThe hirer of carriagesRations of breadD'ArpentignyThe taking of the artillery of Saint-CyrHalt at CognièresM. Detours 320

CHAPTER IV

Boyer the CruelThe ten thousand rations of breadGeneral Exelmans and CharrasThe concierge at the prefecture of VersaillesM. AubernonColonel PoqueInterview of Charles X. with MM. de Schonen, Odilon Barrot and Marshal MaisonThe Royal Family leave RambouilletPanicThe crown jewelsReturn to Paris 332

CHAPTER V

Harel's ideaIt is suggested I should compose La ParisienneAuguste BarbierMy state of morals after the Three DaysI turn solicitorBreakfast with General La FayetteMy interview with himAn indiscreet questionThe Marquis de FavrasA letter from MonsieurMy commission

CHAPTER VI

Léon PilletHis uniformSoissonnais susceptibilityHard returns to the charge with his playI set out for la VendéeThe quarryI obtain pardon for a coiner condemned to the galleysMy stay at MeursCommandant BourgeoisDisastrous effect of the tricolours in le BocageFresh proofs that a kindness done is never lost 354

CHAPTER VII

A warning to Parisian sportsmenClissonThe château of M. LemotMy guideThe Vendean columnThe battle of TorfouTwo omitted namesPiffangesTibulle and the LoireGilles de LavalHis edifying deathMeans taken to engrave a remembrance on the minds of children 368

CHAPTER VIII

Le BocageIts deep lanes and hedgesThe Chouan tacticsVendean horses and ridersVendean politicsThe Marquis de la Bretèche and his farmersThe means I suggested to prevent a fresh ChouannerieThe tottering stoneI leave la JarrieAdieux to my guide 376

CHAPTER IX

The Nantes RevolutionRégnierPaimboufLandlords and travellersJacometyThe native of la Guadeloupe and his wifeGull shootingAxiom for sea-bird shootingThe captain of la PaulineWoman and swallowLovers' superstitionGetting under sail 384

CHAPTER X

Story of Bougainville and his friend the curé of Boulogne 392

CHAPTER XI

Breakfast on deckSaint-NazaireA thing husbands never think ofNoirmontiers Belle-IleI leave the two PaulinesThe rope-ladderThe ship's boatA total immersionThe inn at Saint-NazaireI throw money through the windowA batch of clothesReturn to Paris 409

BOOK V

CHAPTER I

Confidential letter from Louis-Philippe to the Emperor NicholasThe Czar's replyWhat France could do after the Revolution of JulyLouis-Philippe and Ferdinand VII.The Spanish refugeesReaction in the Home departmentScraping of the public monumentsProtest 418

CHAPTER II

The drama of Saint-LeuThe bravery of the Duc d'AumaleThe arrest of MM. Peyronnet, Chantelauze, Guernon-Ranville and PolignacMadame de Saint-Fargeau's servantThomas and M. de PolignacThe ex-ministers at VincennesThe abolition of the death penalty in the ChamberLa FayetteM. de KératrySalverteDeath to the ministersVive Odilon Barrot and Pétion! 429

CHAPTER III

Oudard tells me that Louis-Philippe wishes to see meVisit to M. DeviolaineHutin, supernumerary horse-guardsmanMy interview with the king about la Vendée and the policy of juste milieuBixio an artillerymanHe undertakes to get me enrolled in his batteryI send in my resignation to Louis-Philippe 443

CHAPTER IV

First performance of la Mère et la FilleI have supper with Harel after the performanceHarel imprisons me after supperI am sentenced to eight days' enforced work at NapoléonOn the ninth day the piece is read to the actors and I am set at libertyThe rehearsalsThe actor CharlesHis story about Nodier 457

CHAPTER V

I am officially received into the Artillery Corps of the National GuardAntony is put under rehearsal at the Théâtre-FrançaisIll-will of the actorsTreaty between Hugo and the manager of the Porte-Saint-MartinFirmin's proposition and confidenceMademoiselle Mars' dresses and the new gas lightsI withdraw Antony from the Théâtre-FrançaisI offer Dorval the part of Adèle 472

CHAPTER VI

My agreements with DorvalI read AntonyHer impressions She makes me alter the last act there and thenMerle's roomBocage as artistBocage as negotiatorReading to M. CrosnierHe falls into a profound slumberThe play nevertheless is accepted

APPENDIX493

MY MEMOIRS

Vol. V

By Alexandre Dumas

CONTENTS

BOOK I

CHAPTER I

Organisation of the Parisian ArtilleryMetamorphosis of my uniform of a Mounted National GuardsmanBastideGodefroy CavaignacGuinardThomasNames of the batteries and of their principal servantsI am summoned to seize the ChamberHow many of us came to the rendez-vous 1

CHAPTER II

Odilon Barrot, Préfet of the SeineHis soiréesHis proclamation upon the subject of riotsDupont (de l'Eure) and Louis-PhilippeResignation of the ministry of Molé and GuizotThe affair of the forest of BreteuilThe Laffitte ministryThe prudent way in which registration was carried out 10

CHAPTER III

Béranger as Patriot and Republican 20

CHAPTER IV

Béranger, as Republican 28

CHAPTER V

Death of Benjamin ConstantConcerning his lifeFuneral honours that were conferred upon himHis funeralLaw respecting national rewardsThe trial of the ministersGrouvelle and his sisterM. Mérilhou and the neophyteColonel LavocatThe Court of PeersPanicFieschi 38

CHAPTER VI

The artillerymen at the LouvreBonapartist plot to take our cannon from usDistribution of cartridges by Godefroy CavaignacThe concourse of people outside the Luxembourg when the ministers were sentencedDeparture of the condemned for VincennesDefeat of the judgesLa Fayette and the riotBastide and Commandant Barré on guard with Prosper Mérimée 50

CHAPTER VII

We are surrounded in the Louvre courtyardOur ammunition taken by surpriseProclamation of the ÉcolesLetter of Louis-Philippe to La FayetteThe Chamber vote of thanks to the CollegesProtest of the École polytechniqueDiscussion at the Chamber upon the General Commandership of the National GuardResignation of La FayetteThe king's replyI am appointed second captain 59

CHAPTER VIII

The Government memberChodruc-DuclosHis portraitHis life at BordeauxHis imprisonment at VincennesThe Mayor of OrgonChodruc-Duclos converts himself into a DiogenesM. Giraud-SavineWhy Nodier was growing oldStibertA lesson in shootingDeath of Chodruc-Duclos 68

CHAPTER IX

Alphonse RabbeMadame CardinalRabbe and the Marseilles AcademyLes MassénairesRabbe in SpainHis returnThe Old DaggerThe Journal Le PhocéenRabbe in prisonThe writer of fablesMa pipe 77

CHAPTER X

Rabbe's friendsLa Sour griseThe historical résumésM. Brézé's adviceAn imaginative manBerruyer's styleRabbe with his hairdresser, his concierge and confectionerLa Sour grise stolenLe Centaure 88

CHAPTER XI

AdèleHer devotion to RabbeStrong meatAppel à DieuL'âme et la comédie humaineLa mortUltime lettereSuicideÀ Alphonse Rabbe, by Victor Hugo 99

CHAPTER XII

ChéronHis last compliments to HarelObituary of 1830My official visit on New Year's DayA striking costumeRead the MoniteurDisbanding of the Artillery of the National GuardFirst representation of Napoléon BonaparteDelaistreFrédérick-Lemaître 109

BOOK II

CHAPTER I

The Abbé ChâtelThe programme of his churchThe Curé of Lèves and M. Clausel de MontalsThe Lévois embrace the religion of the primate of the GaulsMass in FrenchThe Roman curéA dead body to inter 117

CHAPTER II

Fine example of religious tolerationThe Abbé DallierThe Circes of LèvesWaterloo after LeipzigThe Abbé Dallier is kept as hostageThe barricadesThe stones of ChartresThe outlookPreparations for fighting 124

CHAPTER III

Attack of the barricadeA sequel to MalplaquetThe GrenadierThe Chartrian philanthropistsSack of the bishop's palaceA fancy dressHow order was restoredThe culprits both small and greatDeath of the Abbé LedruScruples of conscience of the former schismaticsThe Dies iræ of Kosciusko 130

CHAPTER IV

The Abbé de LamennaisHis prediction of the Revolution of 1830Enters the ChurchHis views on the EmpireCasimir Delavigne, RoyalistHis early daysTwo pieces of poetry by M. de LamennaisHis literary vocationEssay on Indifference in Religious MattersReception given to this book by the ChurchThe academy of the château de la Chesnaie 138

CHAPTER V

The founding of l'AvenirL'Abbé LacordaireM. Charles de MontalembertHis article on the sacking of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerroisl'Avenir and the new literatureMy first interview with M. de LamennaisLawsuit against l'AvenirMM. de Montalembert and Lacordaire as schoolmastersTheir trial in the Cour des pairsThe capture of WarsawAnswer of four poets to a word spoken by a statesman 148

CHAPTER VI

Suspension of l'AvenirIts three principal editors present themselves at RomeThe Abbé de Lamennais as musicianThe trouble it takes to obtain an audience of the PopeThe convent of Santo-Andrea della ValleInterview of M. de Lamennais with Gregory XVI.The statuette of MosesThe doctrines of l'Avenir are condemned by the Council of CardinalsRuin of M. de LamennaisThe Paroles d'un Croyant 160

CHAPTER VII

Who Gannot wasMapahHis first miracleThe wedding at CanaGannot, phrenologistWhere his first ideas on phrenology came fromThe unknown womanThe change wrought in Gannot's lifeHow he becomes Mapah 167

CHAPTER VIII

The god and his sanctuaryHe informs the Pope of his overthrowHis manifestoesHis portrait-Doctrine of escapeSymbols of that religionChaudesaigues takes me to the MapahIswara and PracritiQuestions which are wanting in actuality-War between the votaries of bidja and the followers of saktiMy last interview with the Mapah 176

CHAPTER IX

Apocalypse of the being who was once called Caillaux186

BOOK III

CHAPTER I

The scapegoat of powerLegitimist hopesThe expiatory massThe Abbé OlivierThe Curé of Saint-Germain-l'AuxerroisPachelWhere I begin to be wrongGeneral JacqueminotPillage of Saint-Germain-l'AuxerroisThe sham Jesuit and the Préfet of PoliceThe Abbé Paravey's room 203

CHAPTER II

The Préfet of Police at the Palais-RoyalThe function of fireValérius, the truss-makerDemolition of the archbishop's palaceThe Chinese albumFrançois AragoThe spectators of the riotThe erasure of the fleurs-de-lisI give in my resignation a second timeMM. Chambolle and Casimir Périer 211

CHAPTER III

My dramatic faith waversBocage and Dorval reconcile me with myselfA political trial wherein I deserved to figureDownfall of the Laffitte MinistryAustria and the Duc de ModenaMaréchal Maison is Ambassador at ViennaThe story of one of his dispatchesCasimir Périer Prime MinisterHis reception at the Palais-RoyalThey make him the amende honorable 220

CHAPTER IV

Trial of the artillerymenProcureur-général MillerPescheux d'HerbinvilleGodefroy CavaignacAcquittal of the accusedThe ovation they receivedCommissioner GourdinThe cross of JulyThe red and black ribbonFinal rehearsals of Antony 229

CHAPTER V

The first representation of AntonyThe play, the actors, the publicAntony at the Palais-RoyalAlterations of the dénoûment 238

CHAPTER VI

The inspiration under which I composed AntonyThe PrefaceWherein lies the moral of the pieceCuckoldom, Adultery and the Civil CodeQuem nuptiæ demonstrantWhy the Critics exclaimed that my Drama was immoralAccount given by the least malevolent among themHow prejudices against bastardy are overcome 249

CHAPTER VII

A word on criticismMolière estimated by Bossuet, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and by BourdaloueAn anonymous libelCritics of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuriesM. François de Salignac de la Motte de FénelonOrigin of the word TartuffeM. Taschereau and M. Étienne 256

CHAPTER VIII

Thermometer of Social CrisesInterview with M. ThiersHis intentions with regard to the Théâtre-FrançaisOur conventionsAntony comes back to the rue de RichelieuThe ConstitutionnelIts leader against Romanticism in general, and against my drama in particularMorality of the ancient theatreParallel between the Théâtre-Français and that of the Porte-Saint-MartinFirst suspension of Antony 265

CHAPTER IX

My discussion with M. ThiersWhy he had been compelled to suspend AntonyLetter of Madame Dorval to the ConstitutionnelM. Jay crowned with rosesMy lawsuit with M. Jouslin de LasalleThere are still judges in Berlin! 278

CHAPTER X

Republican banquet at the Vendanges de BourgogneThe toastsTo Louis-Philippe!Gathering of those who were decorated in JulyFormation of the boardProtestsFifty yards of ribbonA dissentientContradiction in the MoniteurTrial of Évariste GalloisHis examinationHis acquittal 289

CHAPTER XI

The incompatibility of literature with riotingsLa Maréchale d'AncreMy opinion concerning that pieceFarruck le MaureThe début of Henry Monnier at the VaudevilleI leave ParisRouenHavreI meditate going to explore TrouvilleWhat is Trouville?The consumptive English ladyHonfleurBy land or by sea 299

CHAPTER XII

Appearance of TrouvilleMother OseraieHow people are accommodated at Trouville when they are marriedThe price of painters and of the community of martyrsMother Oseraie's acquaintancesHow she had saved the life of Huet, the landscape painterMy room and my neighbour'sA twenty-franc dinner for fifty sousA walk by the sea-shoreHeroic resolution 308

CHAPTER XIII

A reading at Nodier'sThe hearers and the readersDébutLes Marrons du feuLa Camargo and the Abbé DesiderioGenealogy of a dramatic ideaOrestes and HermioneChimène and Don SanchoGoetz von BerlichingenFragmentsHow I render to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's 317

CHAPTER XIV

Poetry is the Spirit of GodThe Conservatoire and l'École of RomeLetter of counsel to my SonEmployment of my time at TrouvilleMadame de la GarenneThe Vendéan BonnechoseM. BeudinI am pursued by a fishWhat came of it 336

CHAPTER XV

Why M. Beudin came to TrouvilleHow I knew him under another namePrologue of a dramaWhat remained to be doneDivision into three partsI finish Charles VII.Departing from TrouvilleIn what manner I learn of the first performance of Marion Delorme 345

CHAPTER XVI

Marion Delorme 356

CHAPTER XVII

Collaboration 364

BOOK IV

CHAPTER I

The feudal edifice and the industrialThe workmen of LyonsM. Bouvier-DumolardGeneral RoguetDiscussion and signing of the tariff regulating the price of the workmanship of fabricsThe makers refuse to submit to itArtificial prices for silk-workersInsurrection of LyonsEighteen millions on the civil listTimon's calculationsAn unlucky saying of M. de Montalivet 376

CHAPTER II

Death of MirabeauThe accessories of Charles VII.A shooting partyMontereauA temptation I cannot resistCritical position in which my shooting companions and I find ourselvesWe introduce ourselves into an empty house by breaking into it at nightInspection of the premisesImprovised supperAs one makes one's bed, so one lies on itI go to see the dawn riseFowl and duck shootingPreparations for breakfastMother Galop 388

CHAPTER III

Who Mother Galop wasWhy M. Dupont-Delporte was absent How I quarrelled with ViardotRabelais's quarter of an hourProvidence No. IThe punishment of TantalusA waiter who had not read SocratesProvidence No. 2A breakfast for fourReturn to Paris 397

CHAPTER IV

Le Masque de ferGeorges' suppersThe garden of the Luxembourg by moonlightM. Scribe and the Clerc de la BasocheM. d'Épagny and Le Clerc et le ThéologienClassical performances at the Théâtre-FrançaisLes Guelfes, by M. ArnaultParenthesisDedicatory epistle to the prompter 406

CHAPTER V

M. Arnault's PertinaxPizarre, by M. FulchironM. Fulchiron as a politicianM. Fulchiron as magic poetA word about M. ViennetMy opposite neighbour at the performance of PertinaxSplendid failure of the playQuarrel with my vis-à-visThe newspapers take it upMy reply in the Journal de ParisAdvice of M. Pillet 419

CHAPTER VI

Chateaubriand ceases to be a peer of FranceHe leaves the countryBéranger's song thereuponChateaubriand as versifierFirst night of Charles VII.Delafosse's vizorYaqoub and Frédérick-LemaîtreLa Reine d'EspagneM. Henri de LatoucheHis works, talent and characterInterlude of La Reine d'EspagnePreface of the playReports of the pit collected by the author 432

CHAPTER VII

Victor Escousse and Auguste Lebras 440

CHAPTER VIII

First performance of Robert le DiableVéron, manager of the OpéraHis opinion concerning Meyerbeer's musicMy opinion concerning Véron's intellectMy relations with himHis articles and MemoirsRossini's judgment of Robert le DiableNourrit, the preacherMeyerbeerFirst performance of the Fuite de Law, by M. MennechetFirst performance of Richard DarlingtonFrédérickLemaîtreDelafosseMademoiselle Noblet 446

CHAPTER IX

Horace Vernet 456

CHAPTER X

Paul Delaroche 463

CHAPTER XI

Eugène Delacroix 472

CHAPTER XII

Three portraits in one frame 483

CHAPTER XIII

CollaborationA whim of BocageAnicet BourgeoisTeresaDrama at the Opéra-ComiqueLaferrière and the eruption of VesuviusMélingueFancy-dress ball at the TuileriesThe place de Grève and the barrière Saint-JacquesThe death penalty 491

CHAPTER XIV

The peregrinations of Casimir DelavigneJeanne VaubernierRougemontHis translation of Cambronne's motFirst representation of TeresaLong and short piecesCordelier Delanoue and his Mathieu LucClosing of the Taitbout Hall and arrest of the leaders of the Saint-Simonian cult 500

CHAPTER XV

Mély-Janin's Louis XI. 506

CHAPTER XVI

Casimir Delavigne's Louis XI. 514

NOTE (Béranger) 523

NOTE (de Latouche) 531

MY MEMOIRS

By Alexandre Dumas

CONTENTS

BOOK I

CHAPTER I

Preparations for my Fancy Dress BallI find that my lodgings are too much after the style of SocratesMy artist-decoratorsThe question of the supperI go for provisions to la Ferté-VidameView of this capital town of the Canton, by night, in a snowstormMy nephew's roomMy friend GondonRoebuck huntingReturn to ParisI invent a Bank of Exchange before M. ProudhonThe artists at workThe dead 1

CHAPTER II

Alfred Johannot 10

CHAPTER III

Clément Boulanger 18

CHAPTER IV

Grandville 28

CHAPTER V

Tony Johannot 36

BOOK II

CHAPTER I

Sequel to the preparations for my ballOil and distemperInconveniences of working at nightHow Delacroix did his taskThe ballSerious menLa Fayette and BeaucheneVariety of costumesThe invalid and the undertaker's manThe last galopA political playA moral play 42

CHAPTER II

Dix ans de la vie d'une femme 53

CHAPTER III

Doligny manager of the theatre in ItalySaint-Germain bitten by the tarantulaHow they could have livened up Versailles if Louis-Philippe had wished itThe censorship of the Grand-Duke of TuscanyThe bindings of printer BatelliRichard Darlington, Angèle, Antony and La Tour de Nesle performed under the name of Eugène Scribe 83

CHAPTER IV

A few words on La Tour de Nesle and M. Frédérick GaillardetThe Revue des Deux MondesM. BulozThe Journal des VoyagesMy first attempt at Roman historyIsabeau de BavièreA witty man of five foot nine inches 91

CHAPTER V

Success of my Scènes historiquesClovis and Hlodewig (Chlodgwig)I wish to apply myself seriously to the study of the history of FranceThe Abbé Gauthier and M. de MoyencourtCordelier-Delanoue reveals to me Augustine Thierry and ChateaubriandNew aspects of historyGaule et FranceA drama in collaboration with Horace Vernet and Auguste Lafontaine 99

CHAPTER VI

Édith aux longs cheveuxCatherine Howard 107

BOOK III

CHAPTER I

An invasion of choleraAspect of ParisMedicine and the scourgeProclamation of the Prefect of PoliceThe supposed poisonersHarel's newspaper paragraphMademoiselle DupontEugène Durieu and Anicet BourgeoisCatherine (not Howard) and the choleraFirst performance of Mari de la veuveA horoscope which did not come true 115

CHAPTER II

My régime against the choleraI am attacked by the epidemic I invent etherisationHarel comes to suggest to me La Tour de NesleVerteuil's manuscriptJanin and the tirade of the grandes damesFirst idea of the prison sceneMy terms with HarelAdvantages offered by me to M. GaillardetThe spectator in the OdéonKnown and unknown authorsMy first letter to M. Gaillardet 127

CHAPTER III

M. Gaillardet's answer and protestFrédérick and Buridan's partTransaction with M. GaillardetFirst performance of La Tour de NesleThe play and its interpretersThe day following a successM. * * *A profitable trial in prospectGeorges' capriceThe manager, author and collaborator 142

CHAPTER IV

The use of friendsLe Musée des FamillesAn article by M. GaillardetMy reply to itChallenge from M. Gaillardet I accept it with effusionMy adversary demands a first respite of a weekI summon him before the Commission of Dramatic AuthorsHe declines that arbitrationI send him my secondsHe asks a delay of two monthsJanin's letter to the newspapers 156

CHAPTER V

Sword and pistolWhence arose my aversion to the latter weaponPhilippe's puppetThe statue of CorneilleAn autograph in extremisLe bois de VincennesA duelling toiletScientific question put by BixioThe conditions of the duelOfficial report of the secondsHow Bixio's problem found its solution 186

BOOK IV

CHAPTER I

The masquerade of the budget at GrenobleM. Maurice DuvalThe serenadersEscapade of the 35th of the lineThe insurrection it excitesArrest of General Saint-ClairTaking of the préfecture and of the citadel by BastideBastide at LyonsOrder reigns at GrenobleCasimir Périer, Gamier-Pages and M. DupinReport of the municipality of GrenobleAcquittal of the riotersRestoration of the 35thProtest of a smoker 198

CHAPTER II

General Dermoncourt's papersProtest of Charles X. against the usurpation of the Duc d'OrléansThe stoutest of political menAttempt at restoration planned by Madame la duchesse de BerryThe Carlo-AlbertoHow I write authentic notesLanding of Madame near La CiotatLegitimist affray at MarseillesMadame set out for La VendéeM. de BonnechoseM. de VilleneuveM. de Lorge 215

CHAPTER III

Madame's itineraryPanicM. de PuylaroqueDomine salvum fac PhilippumThe château de DampierreMadame de la MyreThe pretended cousin and the curéM. GuibourgM. de BourmontLetter of Madame to M. de CoislinThe noms de guerreProclamation of MadameNew kind of hennaM. CharetteMadame is nearly drowned in the MaineThe sexton in charge of the provisionsA night in the stableThe Legitimists of ParisThey dispatch M. Berryer into la Vendée 230

CHAPTER IV

Interview between MM. Berryer and de BourmontThe messenger's guidesThe movable columnM. CharlesMadame's hiding-placeMadame refuses to leave la VendéeShe rallies her followers to armsDeath of General LamarqueThe deputies of the Opposition meet together at Laffitte's houseThey decide to publish a statement to the nationMM. Odilon Barrot and de Cormenin are commissioned to draw up this reportOne hundred and thirty-three deputies sign it 247

CHAPTER V

Last moments of General LamarqueWhat his life had been One of my interviews with himI am appointed one of the stewards of the funeral cortègeThe processionSymptoms of popular agitationThe marching past across the place VendômeThe Duke Fitz-JamesConflicts provoked by the town policeThe students of the École Polytechnique join the cortègeArrival of the funeral procession at the pont d'AusterlitzSpeechesFirst shotsThe man with the red flagAllocution of Étienne Arago 260

CHAPTER VI

The artillerymenCarrel and le NationalBarricades of the boulevard Bourdon and in the rue de Ménilmontant The carriage of General La FayetteA bad shot from my friendsDespair of HarelThe pistols in RichardThe women are against usI distribute arms to the insurgentsChange of uniformThe meeting at Laffitte'sProgress of the insurrectionM. ThiersBarricade Saint-MerryJeanneRossignolBarricade of the passage du SaumonMorning of 6 June 281

CHAPTER VII

Inside the barricade Saint-Merry, according to a Parisian child's accountGeneral Tiburce SébastianiLouis-Philippe during the insurrectionM. GuizotMM. François Arago, Laffitte and Odilon Barrot at the TuileriesThe last argument of KingsÉtienne Arago and HoweltDenunciation against meM. Binet's report 301

BOOK V

CHAPTER I

Le Fils de l'ÉmigréI learn the news of my premature deathI am advised to take a voyage for prudence and health's sakeI choose SwitzerlandGosselin's literary opinion on that countryFirst effect of change of airFrom Châlon to Lyons by a low trainThe ascent of CerdonArrival at Geneva 317

CHAPTER II

Great explanations about the bear-steakJacototAn ill-sounding epithetA seditious felt hatThe carabineers who were too cleverI quarrel with King Charles-Albert over the Dent du ChatPrinces and men of intellect 323

CHAPTER III

22 July 1832 339

CHAPTER IV

Edict unbaptizing the King of RomeAnecdotes of the childhood of the Duc de ReichstadtLetter of Sir Hudson Lowe announcing the death of Napoleon 346

CHAPTER V

Prince Metternich is appointed to teach the history of Napoleon to the Duc de ReichstadtThe Duke's plan of political conductThe poet Barthélemy at ViennaHis interviews with Count DietrichsteinOpinion of the Duc de Reichstadt on the poem Napoleon en Egypt 353

CHAPTER VI

Journey of the Duc de ReichstadtM. le Chevalier de ProkeschQuestions concerning the recollections left by Napoléon en ÉgypteThe ambition of the Duc de ReichstadtThe Countesse CamerataThe prince is appointed lieutenant-colonelHe becomes hoarse when holding a reviewHe falls illReport upon his health by Dr. Malfatti 363

CHAPTER VII

The Duc de Reichstadt at SchönbrünnProgress of his diseaseThe Archduchess SophiaThe prince's last momentsHis deathEffect produced by the news at ParisArticle of the Constitutionnel upon this event 373

BOOK VI

CHAPTER I

LucerneThe lion of August 10M. de Chateaubriand's fowlsReichenauA picture by ConderLetter to M. le duc d'OrléansA walk in the park of Arenenberg 383

CHAPTER II

News of FranceFirst performance of Le Fils de l'Émigré What Le Constitutionnel thought of itEffect produced by that play on the Parisian population in general and on M. Véron in particularDeath of Walter ScottPerrinet LeclercSic vos non vobis 401

CHAPTER III

La Duchesse de Berry returns to Nantes disguised as a peasant womanThe basket of applesThe house DuguignyMadame in her hiding-placeSimon DeutzHis antecedentsHis missionHe enters into treaty with MM. Thiers and MontalivetHe starts for la Vendée 412

CHAPTER IV

M. Maurice Duval is made Préfet of the Loire-Inférieure The Nantais give him a charivariDeutz's persistent attempts to see MadameHe obtains a first and then a second audienceBesieging of the maison DuguignyThe hiding-placeThe police searchesDiscovery of the Duchess 424

CHAPTER V

First moments after the arrestMadame's 13,000 francsWhat a gendarme can win by sleeping on a camp-bed and making philosophic reflections thereonThe duchess at the Château de NantesShe is transferred to BlayeJudas 438

BOOK VII

CHAPTER I

Le Roi s'amuseCriticism and censorship 462

CHAPTER II

Le Corsaire trialThe Duc d'Orléans as caricaturistThe Tribune trialThe right of association established by juryStatistics of the political sentences under the RestorationLe Pré-aux-Clercs 500

CHAPTER III

Victor Jacquemont 505

CHAPTER IV

George Sand 513

CHAPTER V

Eugène SueHis family, birth, godfather and godmother His educationDr. Sue's wine-cellarChoir of botanists Committee of chemistryDinner on the grassEugène Sue sets out for SpainHis returnFerdinand Langlé's roomCaptain Gauthier 520

CHAPTER VI

Eugène Sue is ambitious enough to have a groom, horse and trapHe does business with the maison Ermingot, Godefroi et Cie which permits him to gratify that fancyTriumph at the Champs-ÉlyséesA vexing encounterDesforges and Eugène Sue separateDesforges starts Le Kaléidoscope at BordeauxFerdinand Langlé starts La Nouveauté at ParisCésar and the negro ZoyoDossion and his dog 531

CHAPTER VII

Eugène Sue's début in journalismL'Homme-MoucheThe merino sheepEugène Sue in the NavyHe takes part in the battle of NavarinoHe furnishes a houseThe last folly of youthAnother Fils de l'HommeBossange and Desforges 540

BOOK VIII

CHAPTER I

The political duels 547

CHAPTER II

Lucrèce BorgiaDiscouragementFirst conception of the Historical Romances 572

CHAPTER III

Condition of the Théâtre-Français in 1832 and 1833Causes which had led to our emigration from the Théatre-FrançaisReflections concerning the education of dramatic artists 577

CHAPTER IV

TalmaMademoiselle MarsThe ConservatoireMacreadyYoung KeanMiss SmithsonMrs. SiddonsMiss FaucitShakespeare The limits to dramatic art in France 582

APPENDIX 587

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE 636

THE WOLF-LEADER

By Alexandre Dumas

CONTENTS

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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An immense Wolf entered the Room, walking on its hind Legs | Frontispiece
A young Girl suddenly emerged from the Underwood | 23
The Baron's Horse Shied, throwing the Rider over its Head | 80

CONTENTS

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Introduction. | Who Mocquet was, and how this Tale became known to the Narrator | 1
I. | | The Grand Master of His Highness' Wolf Hounds | 12
II. | | The Seigneur Jean and the Sabot Maker | 16
III. | | Agnelette | 22
IV. | | The Black Wolf | 27
V. | | The Pact with Satan | 31
VI. | | The Bedevilled Hair | 35
VII. | | The Boy at the Mill | 40
VIII. | | Thibault's Wishes | 44
IX. | | The Wolf-Leader | 47
X. | | Maître Magloire | 51
XI. | | David and Goliath | 55
XII. | | Wolves in the Sheep-fold | 60
XIII. | | Where it is demonstrated that a Woman never speaks more eloquently than when she holds her Tongue | 67
XIV. | | A Village Wedding | 72
XV. | | The Lord of Vauparfond | 76
XVI. | | My Lady's Lady | 80
XVII. | | The Baron de Mont-Gobert | 84
XVIII. | | Death and Resurrection | 88
XIX. | | The Dead and the Living | 90
XX. | | True to Tryst | 94
XXI. | | The Genius of Evil | 99
XXII. | | Thibault's Last Wish | 105
XXIII. | | The Anniversary | 108
XXIV. | | Hunting down the Were-Wolf | 111

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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF ALEXANDRE DUMAS, [père]

- Compiled by David Widger

- CONTENTS

- Click on the ## before each title to view a linked table of contents for each of the ebooks. Click on the title itself to open the original online file.

TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES

THE BLACK TULIP

- CONTENTS

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

- First Volume of the d'Artagnan Series

- CONTENTS

THE YEARS LATER

TWENTY YEARS AFTER

- Second Volume of the d'Artagnan Series 1910

- CONTENTS

THE VICOMTE DE BRAGELONNE

- This Begins the Final Volume of the D'Artagnan Series

- CONTENTS

TEN YEARS LATER

- (1660-1661, Chapters 76-140 of the Third Volume of the D’Artagnan series)

- THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITOR’S NOTE TO THE PG D’ARTAGNAN SERIES

- CONTENTS

LOUISE DE LA VALLIERE

- THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITOR’S NOTE TO THE PG D’ARTAGNAN SERIES

- CONTENTS

THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK

- CONTENTS

CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE

- 1910
- CONTENTS
- CONTENTS

THE COMPANIONS OF JEHU

- CONTENTS

CHICOT THE JESTER

- Abridged translation of “La dame de Monsoreau”

- CONTENTS

THE CONSPIRATORS.

- CONTENTS

- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE PRUSSIAN TERROR

- A First Translation From The French By R.S. Garnett

- CONTENTS

CAPTAIN PAUL

- CONTENTS

THE SICILIAN BANDIT

- From the Volume “Captain Paul”

- CONTENTS

THE HERO OF THE PEOPLE.

- CONTENTS

THE MESMERIST'S VICTIM.

- CONTENTS

THE COUNTESS OF CHARNY or, THE EXECUTION OF KING LOUIS XVI.

- CONTENTS

THE ROYAL LIFE GUARD.

- CONTENTS

TAKING THE BASTILE; or PITOU THE PEASANT

- A Historical Story of The Great French Revolution.

- CONTENTS

THE LAST VENDÉE OR, THE SHE-WOLVES OF MACHECOUL

- Two Volumes In One

- CONTENTS

THE LAST VENDÉE; OR, THE SHE-WOLVES OF MACHECOUL.

- VOLUME II.

- CONTENTS.

- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

- VOL. I.

- VOL. II.

MY MEMOIRS

- Vol. I.

- CONTENTS

MY MEMOIRS

- Vol. II., 1822 to 1825

- CONTENTS

MY MEMOIRS

- Vol. III 1826 TO 1830

- CONTENTS

MY MEMOIRS

- Vol. IV

- Alexandre Dumas

- CONTENTS

MY MEMOIRS

- Vol. V

- CONTENTS

MY MEMOIRS

- CONTENTS

THE WOLF-LEADER

- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CONTENTS
- THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE