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Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Alexandre Dumas, [père]
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CONTENTS
## 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
by Alexandre Dumas [père]
Contents
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
By Alexandre Dumas, Pere
First Volume of the d'Artagnan Series
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
TEN YEARS LATER
by Alexandre Dumas
Contents
THE VICOMTE DE BRAGELONNE.
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—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
By Alexandre Dumas, Pere
Second Volume of the d'Artagnan Series
1910
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
By Alexandre Dumas, Pere
This Begins the Final Volume of the D'Artagnan Series
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:
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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
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 CENCIâ?"1598
MASSACRES OF THE SOUTHâ?"1551-1815
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
MARY STUARTâ?"1587
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
KARL-LUDWIG SANDâ?"1819
URBAIN GRANDIERâ?"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
NISIDAâ?"1825
DERUES
LA CONSTANTINâ?"1660
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
JOAN OF NAPLESâ?"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-GERANâ?"1639
MURATâ?"1815
Iâ?"TOULON
IIâ?"CORSICA
IIIâ?"PIZZO
THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS
VANINKA
THE MARQUISE DE GANGESâ?"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.
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.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER XXVI.
CHAPTER XXVII.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
CHAPTER XXIX.
CHAPTER XXX.
CHAPTER XXXI.
CHAPTER XXXII.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
CHAPTER XXXV.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XLI.
CHAPTER XLII.
CHAPTER XLIII.
CHAPTER XLIV.
CHAPTER XLV.
CHAPTER XLVI.
CHAPTER XLVII.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
CHAPTER XLIX.
CHAPTER L.
CHAPTER LI.
CHAPTER LII.
CHAPTER LIII.
CHAPTER LIV.
CHAPTER LV.
CHAPTER LVI.
CHAPTER LVII.
CHAPTER LVIII.
CHAPTER LIX.
CHAPTER LX.
CHAPTER LXI.
CHAPTER LXII.
CHAPTER LXIII.
CHAPTER LXIV.
CHAPTER LXV.
CHAPTER LXVI.
CHAPTER LXVII.
CHAPTER LXVIII.
CHAPTER LXIX.
CHAPTER LXX.
CHAPTER LXXI.
CHAPTER LXXII.
CHAPTER LXXIII.
CHAPTER LXXIV.
CHAPTER LXXV.
CHAPTER LXXVI.
CHAPTER LXXVII.
CHAPTER LXXVIII.
CHAPTER LXXIX.
CHAPTER LXXX.
CHAPTER LXXXI.
CHAPTER LXXXII.
CHAPTER LXXXIII.
CHAPTER LXXXIV.
CHAPTER LXXXV.
CHAPTER LXXXVI.
CHAPTER LXXXVII.
CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
CHAPTER LXXXIX.
CHAPTER XC.
CHAPTER XCI.
CHAPTER XCII.
CHAPTER XCIII.
CHAPTER XCIV.
CHAPTER XCV.
CHAPTER XCVI.
CHAPTER XCVII.
THE CONSPIRATORS.
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
GAMBETTA.
CONTENTS
TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 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.
A HISTORICAL ROMANCE
OF
LOVE, LIBERTY AND LOYALTY.
BY ALEX. DUMAS.
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XVII.,
XVIII.,
XIX.,
XX.,
XXI.,
XXII.,
XXIII.,
XXIV.,
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THE
COUNTESS OF CHARNY.
BY
Alex. Dumas.
The Countess of Charny;
OR,
THE EXECUTION OF KING LOUIS XVI.
A HISTORICAL NOVEL OF LOVE AND LOYALTY.
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.
TABLE OF 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.
TABLE OF 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
ILLUSTRATED
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.
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
BY
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
TRANSLATED BY
E. M. WALLER
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
ANDREW LANG
VOL. I
1802 TO 1821
1907
CONTENTS
BOOK I
CHAPTER I
My birth—My name is disputed—Extracts from the official registers of Villers-Cotterets—Corbeil Club—My father's marriage certificate—My mother—My maternal grandfather—Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, father of Philippe-Égalité—Madame de Montesson—M. de Noailles and the Academy—A morganatic marriage 1
CHAPTER II
My father—His birth—The arms of the family—The serpents of Jamaica—The alligators of St. Domingo—My grandfather—A young man's adventure—A first duel—M. le duc de Richelieu acts as second for my father—My father enlists as a private soldier—He changes his name—Death of my grandfather—His death certificate 11
CHAPTER III
My father rejoins his regiment—His portrait—His strength—His skill—The Nile serpent—The regiment of the King and the regiment of the Queen—Early days of the Revolution—Declaration of Pilnitz—The camp at Maulde—The thirteen Tyrolean chasseurs—My father's name is mentioned in the order of the day—France under Providence—Voluntary enlistments—St.-Georges and Boyer—My father lieutenant-colonel—The camp of the Madeleine—The pistols of Lepage—My father General of Brigade in the Army of the North 21
CHAPTER IV
My father is sent to join Kléber—He is nominated General-in-Chief in the Western Pyrenees—Bouchotte's letters—Instructions of the Convention—The Representatives of the People who sat at Bayonne—Their proclamation—In spite of this proclamation my father remains at Bayonne—Monsieur de l'Humanité 33
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CHAPTER V
My father is appointed General-in-Chief of the Army of the West—His report on the state of La Vendée—My father is sent to the Army of the Alps as General-in-Chief—State of the army—Capture of Mont Valaisan and of the Little Saint-Bernard—Capture of Mont Cenis—My father is recalled to render an account of his conduct—What he had done—He is acquitted 43
CHAPTER VI
The result of a sword-stroke across the head—St. Georges and the remounts—The quarrel he sought with my father—My father is transferred to the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse—He hands in his resignation and returns to Villers-Cotterets—A retrospect over what had happened at home and abroad during the four years that had just elapsed 56
CHAPTER VII
My father at Villers-Cotterets—He is called to Paris to carry out the 13th Vendémiaire—Bonaparte takes his place—He arrives the next day—Buonaparte's attestation—My father is sent into the district of Bouillon—He goes to the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse and to the Army of the Rhine, and is appointed Commandant at Landau—He returns as Divisional General in the Army of the Alps, of which he had been Commander-in-Chief—English blood and honour—Bonaparte's plan—Bonaparte appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Italy—The campaign of 1796 69
CHAPTER VIII
My father in the Army of Italy—He is received at Milan by Bonaparte and Joséphine—Bonaparte's troubles in Italy—Scurvy—The campaign is resumed—Discouragement—Battle of Arcole 82
CHAPTER IX
The despatch is sent to Bonaparte—Dermoncourt's reception—Berthier's open response—Military movements in consequence of the despatch—Correspondence between my father and Serrurier and Dallemagne—Battle of St.-Georges and La Favorite—Capture of Mantua—My father as a looker-on 90
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CHAPTER X
My father's first breeze with Bonaparte—My father is sent to Masséna's army corps—He shares Joubert's command in the Tyrol—Joubert—The campaign in the Tyrol 109
BOOK II
CHAPTER I
The bridge of Clausen—Dermoncourt's reports—Prisoners on parole—Lepage's pistols—Three generals-in-chief at the same table 119
CHAPTER II
Joubert's loyalty towards my father—"Send me Dumas"—The Horatius Codes of the Tyrol—My father is appointed Governor of the Trévisan—The agent of the Directory—My father fêted at his departure—The treaty of Campo-Formio—The return to Paris—The flag of the Army of Italy—The charnel-house of Morat—Charles the Bold—Bonaparte is elected a member of the Institute—First thoughts of the expedition to Egypt—Toulon—Bonaparte and Joséphine—What was going to happen in Egypt 135
CHAPTER III
The voyage—The landing—The taking of Alexandria—The Chant du Départ and the Arabian concert—The respited prisoners—The march on Cairo—Rum and biscuit—My father's melons—The Scientific Institute—Battle of the Pyramids—Scene of the victory—My father's letter establishing the truth 151
CHAPTER IV
Admissions of General Dupuis and Adjutant-General Boyer—The malcontents—Final discussion between Bonaparte and my father—Battle of Aboukir—My father finds treasure—His letter on this subject 161
CHAPTER V
Revolt at Cairo—My father enters the Grand Mosque on horseback—His home-sickness—He leaves Egypt and lands at Naples—Ferdinand and Caroline of Naples—Emma Lyon and Nelson—Ferdinand's manifesto—Comments of his minister, Belmonte-Pignatelli 172
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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 Mack—Events during his captivity—He asks in vain for a share in the distribution of the 500,000 francs indemnity granted to the prisoners—The arrears of his pay also refused him—He is placed on the retired list, in spite of his energetic protests 197
CHAPTER VIII
Letter from my father to General Brune on my birth—The postscript—My godfather and godmother—First recollections of infancy—Topography of the château des Fossés and sketches of some of its inhabitants—The snake and the frog—Why I asked Pierre if he could swim—Continuation of Jocrisse 204
CHAPTER IX
Mocquet's nightmare—His pipe—Mother Durand—Les bêtes fausses et le pierge—M. Collard—My father's remedy—Radical cure of Mocquet 212
CHAPTER X
Who was Berlick?—The fête of Villers-Cotterets—Faust and Polichinelle—The sabots—Journey to Paris—Dollé—Manette—Madame de Mauclerc's pension—Madame de Montesson—Paul and Virginia—Madame de Saint-Aubin 218
CHAPTER XI
Brune and Murat—The return to Villers-Cotterets—L'hôtel de l'Épée—Princess Pauline—The chase—The chief forester's permission—My father takes to his bed never to rise again—Delirium—The gold-headed cane—Death 225
CHAPTER XII
My love for my father—His love for me—I am taken away to my cousin Marianne's—Plan of the house—The forge—The apparition—I learn the death of my father—I wish to go to heaven to kill God—Our situation at the death of my father—Hatred of Bonaparte 232
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BOOK III
CHAPTER I
My mother and I take refuge with my grandfather—Madame Darcourt's house—My first books and my first terrors—The park at Villers-Cotterets—M. Deviolaine and his family—The swarm of bees—The old cloister 243
CHAPTER II
The two snakes—M. de Valence and Madame de Montesson—Who little Hermine was—Garnier the wheelwright and Madame de Valence—Madame Lafarge—Fantastic apparition of Madame de Genlis 253
CHAPTER III
Mademoiselle Pivert—I make her read the Thousand and One Nights, or, rather, one story in that collection—Old Hiraux, my music-master—The little worries of his life—He takes his revenge on his persecutors after the fashion of the Maréchal de Montluc—He is condemned to be flogged, and nearly loses the sight of his eyes—What happened on Easter Day in the organ-loft at the monastery—He becomes a grocer's lad—His vocation leads him to the study of music—I have little aptitude for the violin 259
CHAPTER IV
The dog lantern-bearer—Demoustier's epitaph—My first fencing-master—"The king drinks"—The fourth terror of my life—The tub of honey 277
CHAPTER V
My horror of great heights—The Abbé Conseil—My opening at the Seminary—My mother, much pressed, decides to enter me there—The horn inkstand—Cécile at the grocer's—My flight 285
CHAPTER VI
The Abbé Grégoire's College—The reception I got there—The fountains play to celebrate my arrival—The conspiracy against me—Bligny challenges me to single combat—I win 295
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CHAPTER VII
The Abbé Fortier—The jealous husband and the viaticum—A pleasant visit—Victor Letellier—The pocket-pistol—I terrify the population—Tournemolle is requisitioned—He disarms me 304
CHAPTER VIII
A political chronology—Trouble follows trouble—The fire at the farm at None—Death of Stanislas Picot—The hiding-place for the louis d'or—The Cossacks—The haricot mutton 315
CHAPTER IX
The quarry—Frenchmen eat the haricot cooked for the Cossacks—The Duc de Treviso—He allows himself to be surprised—Ducoudray the hosier—Terrors 324
CHAPTER X
The return to Villers-Cotterets, and what we met on the way—The box with the thirty louis in it—The leather-bag—The mole—Our departure—The journey—The arrival at Mensal and our sojourn their—King Joseph—The King of Rome—We leave Mensal—Our visit to Crispy in Valois—The dead and wounded—The surrender of Paris—The isle of Elba 331
CHAPTER XI
Am I to be called Davy de La Pailleterie or Alexandre Dumas?—Deus dedit, Deus dabit—The tobacco-shop—The cause of the Emperor Napoleon's fall, as it appeared to my writing-master—My first communion—How I prepared for it 345
BOOK IV
CHAPTER I
Auguste Lafarge—Bird-snaring on a large scale—A wonderful catch—An epigram—I wish to write French verses—My method of translating Virgil and Tacitus—Montanan—My political opinions 355
CHAPTER II
The single-barrelled gun—Quiot Biche—Biche and Boudoux compared—I become a poacher—It is proposed to issue a writ against me—Madame Darcourt as plenipotentiary—How it happened that Cretan's writ caused me no bother 363
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CHAPTER III
Bonaparte's landing at the Gulf of Juan—Proclamations and Ordonnances—Louis XVIII. and M. de Vitrolles—Cornu the hatter—Newspaper information 374
CHAPTER IV
General Exelmans—His trial—The two brothers Lallemand—Their conspiracy—They are arrested and led through Villers-Cotterets—The affronts to which they were subjected 382
CHAPTER V
My mother and I conspire—The secret—M. Richard—La pistole and the pistols—The offer made to the brothers Lallemand in order to save them—They refuse—I meet one of them, twenty-eight years later, at the house of M. le duc de Cazes 389
CHAPTER VI
Napoleon and the Allies—The French army and the Emperor pass through Villers-Cotterets—Bearers of ill tidings 402
CHAPTER VII
Waterloo—The Élysée—La Malmaison 411
CHAPTER VIII
Cæsar—Charlemagne—Napoleon 421
CHAPTER IX
The rout—The haricot mutton reappears—M. Picot the lawyer—By diplomatic means, he persuades my mother to let me go shooting with him—I despise sleep, food and drink 427
CHAPTER X
Trapping larks—I wax strong in the matter of my compositions—The wounded partridge—I take the consequences whatever they are—The farm at Brassoire—M. Deviolaine's sally at the accouchement of his wife 435
CHAPTER XI
M. Moquet de Brassoire—The ambuscade—Three hares charge me—What prevents me from being the king of the battue—Because I did not take the bull by the horns, I just escape being disembowelled by it—Sabine and her puppies 441
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BOOK V
CHAPTER I
The second period of my youth—Forest-keepers and sailors—Choron, Moinat, Mildet, Berthelin—La Maison-Neuve 449
CHAPTER II
Choron and the mad dog—Niquet, otherwise called Bobino—His mistress—The boar-hunt—The kill—Bobino's triumph—He is decorated—The boar which he had killed rises again 456
CHAPTER III
Boars and keepers—The bullet of Robin-des-Bois—The pork-butcher 464
CHAPTER IV
A wolf-hunt—Small towns—Choron'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 me—I enter the office of Me. Mennesson, notary, as errand-boy, otherwise guttersnipe—Me. Mennesson and his clerks—La Fontaine-Eau-Claire 483
CHAPTER VI
Who the assassin was and who the assassinated—Auguste Picot—Equality before the law—Last exploits of Marot—His execution 491
CHAPTER VII
Spring at Villers-Cotterets—Whitsuntide—The Abbé Grégoire invites me to dance with his niece—Red books—The Chevalier de Faublas—Laurence and Vittoria—A dandy of 1818 499
CHAPTER VIII
I leap the Haha—A slit follows—The two pairs of gloves—The quadrille—Fourcade's triumph—I pick up the crumbs—The waltz—The child becomes a man 508
MY MEMOIRS
BY
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
TRANsLATED BY
E. M. WALLER
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
ANDREW LANG
VOL. II
1822 TO 1825
1907
CONTENTS
BOOK I
CHAPTER I
An unpublished chapter from the Diable boiteux—History of Samud and the beautiful Doña Lorenza 1
CHAPTER II
The good my flouting at the hands of the two Parisians had done me—The young girls of Villers-Cotterets—My three friends—First love affairs 13
CHAPTER III
Adolphe de Leuven—His family—Unpublished details concerning the death of Gustavus III.—The Count de Ribbing—The shoemakers of the château de Villers-Hellon 24
CHAPTER IV
Adolphe's quatrain—The water-hen and King William—Lunch in the wood—The irritant powder, the frogs and the cock—The doctor's spectre—De Leuven, Hippolyte Leroy and I are exiled from the drawing-room—Unfortunate result of a geographical error—M. Paroisse 34
CHAPTER V
Amédée de la Ponce—He teaches me what work is—M. Arnault and his two sons—A journey by diligence—A gentleman fights me with cough lozenges and I fight him with my fists—I learn the danger from which I escaped 48
CHAPTER VI
First dramatic impressions—The Hamlet of Ducis—The Bourbons en 1815—Quotations from it 57
CHAPTER VII
The events of 1814 again—Marmont, Duc de Raguse, Maubreuil and Roux-Laborie at M. de Talleyrand's—The Journal des Débats and the Journal de Paris—Lyrics of the Bonapartists and enthusiasm of the Bourbons—End of the Maubreuil affair—Plot against the life of the Emperor—The 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 Maubreuil—Chamber of the Court of Appeal—The sitting of 17 April, 1817 88
BOOK II
CHAPTER I
The last shot of Waterloo—Temper of the provinces in 1817, 1818 and 1819—The Messéniennes—The Vêpres siciliennes—Louis IX.—Appreciation of these two tragedies—A phrase of Terence—My claim to a similar sentiment—Three o'clock in the morning—The course of love-making—Valeat res ludrica 96
CHAPTER II
Return of Adolphe de Leuven—He shows me a corner of the artistic and literary world—The death of Holbein and the death of Orcagna—Entrance into the green-rooms—Bürger's Lénore—First thoughts of my vocation 103
CHAPTER III
The Cerberus of the rue de Largny—I tame it—The ambush—Madame Lebègue—A confession 109
CHAPTER IV
De Leuven makes me his collaborator—The Major de Strasbourg—My first couplet-Chauvin—The Dîner d'amis—The Abencérages 117
CHAPTER V
Unrecorded stories concerning the assassination of the Duc de Berry. 123
CHAPTER VI
Carbonarism 132
CHAPTER VII
My hopes—Disappointment—M. Deviolaine is appointed forest-ranger to the Duc d'Orléans—His coldness towards me—Half promises—First cloud on my love-affairs—I go to spend three months with my brother-in-law at Dreux—The news waiting for me on my return—Muphti—Walls and hedges—The summer-house—Tennis—Why I gave up playing it—The wedding party in the wood 147
CHAPTER VIII
I leave Villers-Cotterets to be second or third clerk at Crespy—M. Lefèvre—His character—My journeys to Villers-Cotterets—The Pélerinage d'Ermenonville—Athénaïs—New matter sent to Adolphe—An uncontrollable desire to pay a visit to Paris—How this desire was accomplished—The journey—Hôtel des Vieux-Augustins—Adolphe—Sylla—Talma 155
CHAPTER IX
The theatre ticket—The Café du Roi—Auguste Lafarge—Théaulon—Rochefort—Ferdinand Langlé—People who dine and people who don't—Canaris—First sight of Talma—Appreciation of Mars and Rachel—Why Talma has no successor—Sylla and the Censorship—Talma's box—A cab-drive after midnight—The return to Crespy—M. Lefèvre explains that a machine, in order to work well, needs all its wheels—I hand in my resignation as his third clerk 166
BOOK III
CHAPTER I
I return to my mother's—The excuse I give concerning my return—The calfs lights—Pyramus and Cartouche—The intelligence of the fox more developed than that of the dog—Death of Cartouche—Pyramus's various gluttonous habits 184
CHAPTER II
Hope in Laffitte—A false hope—New projects—M. Lecomier—How and on what conditions I clothe myself anew—Bamps, tailor, 12 rue du Helder—Bamps at Villers-Cotterets—I visit our estate along with him—Pyramus follows a butcher lad—An Englishman who loved gluttonous dogs—I sell Pyramus—My first hundred francs—The use to which they are put—Bamps departs for Paris—Open credit 191
CHAPTER III
My mother is obliged to sell her land and her house—The residu—The Piranèses—An architect at twelve hundred francs salary—I discount my first bill—Gondon—How I was nearly killed at his house—The fifty francs—Cartier—The game of billiards—How six hundred small glasses of absinthe equalled twelve journeys to Paris 204
CHAPTER IV
How I obtain a recommendation to General Foy—M. Danré of Vouty advises my mother to let me go to Paris—My good-byes—Laffitte and Perregaux—The three things which Maître Mennesson asks me not to forget—The Abbé Grégoire's advice and the discussion with him—I leave Villers-Cotterets 213
CHAPTER V
I find Adolphe again—The pastoral drama—First steps—The Duc de Bellune—General Sébastiani—His secretaries and his snuff-boxes—The fourth floor, small door to the left—The general who painted battles 223
CHAPTER VI
Régulus—Talma and the play—General Foy—The letter of recommendation and the interview—The Duc de Bellune's reply—I obtain a place as temporary clerk with M. le Duc d'Orléans—Journey to Villers-Cotterets to tell my mother the good news—No. 9—I gain a prize in a lottery 234
CHAPTER VII
I find lodgings—Hiraux's son—Journals and journalists in 1823—By being saved the expense of a dinner I am enabled to go to the play at the Porte-Saint-Martin—My entry into the pit—Sensation caused by my hair—I am turned out—How I am obliged to pay for three places in order to have one—A polite gentleman who reads Elzevirs 251
CHAPTER VIII
My neighbour—His portrait—The Pastissier françois—A course in bibliomania—Madame Méchin and the governor of Soissons—Cannons and Elzevirs 263
CHAPTER IX
Prologue of the Vampire—The style offends my neighbour's ear—First act—Idealogy—The rotifer—What the animal is—Its conformation, its life, its death and its resurrection 272
CHAPTER X
Second act of the Vampire—Analysis—My neighbour again objects—He has seen a vampire—Where and how—A statement which records the existence of vampires—Nero—Why he established the race of hired applauders—My neighbour leaves the orchestra 284
CHAPTER XI
A parenthesis—Hariadan Barberousse at Villers-Cotterets—I play the rôle of Don Ramire as an amateur—My costume—The third act of the Vampire—My friend the bibliomaniac whistles at the most critical moment—He is expelled from the theatre—Madame Allan-Dorval—Her family and her childhood—Philippe—His death and his funeral 295
BOOK IV
CHAPTER I
My beginning at the office—Ernest Basset—Lassagne—M. Oudard—I see M. Deviolaine—M. le Chevalier de Broval—His portrait—Folded letters and oblong letters—How I acquire a splendid reputation for sealing letters—I learn who was my neighbour the bibliomaniac and whistler 307
CHAPTER II
Illustrious contemporaries—The sentence written on my foundation stone—My reply—I settle down in the place des Italiens—M. de Leuven's table—M. Louis-Bonaparte's witty saying—Lassagne gives me my first lesson in literature and history 323
CHAPTER III
Adolphe reads a play at the Gymnase—M. Dormeuil—Kenilworth Castle—M. Warez and Soulié—Mademoiselle Lévesque—The Arnault family—The Feuille—Marius à Minturnes—Danton's epigram—The reversed passport—Three fables—Germanicus —Inscriptions and epigrams—Ramponneau—The young man and the tilbury—Extra ecclesiam nulla est salus—Madame Arnault 334
CHAPTER IV
Frédéric Soulié, his character, his talent—Choruses of the various plays, sung as prologues and epilogues—Transformation of the vaudeville—The Gymnase and M. Scribe—The Folie de Waterloo 349
CHAPTER V
The Duc d'Orléans—My first interview with him—Maria-Stella-Chiappini—Her attempts to gain rank—Her history—The statement of the Duc d'Orléans—Judgment of the Ecclesiastical Court of Faenza—Rectification 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-Martin—Trial and condemnation of Magallon—The anonymous journalist—Beaumarchais sent to Saint-Lazare—A few words on censorships in general—Trial of Benjamin Constant—Trial of M. de Jouy—A few words concerning the author of Sylla—Three letters extracted from the Ermite de la Chaussée-d'Antin—Louis XVIII. as author 375
CHAPTER VII
The house in the rue Chaillot—Four poets and a doctor—Corneille and the Censorship—Things M. Faucher does not know—Things the President of the Republic ought to know 389
BOOK V
CHAPTER I
Chronology of the drama—Mademoiselle Georges Weymer—Mademoiselle Raucourt—Legouvé and his works—Marie-Joseph Chénier—His letter to the company of the Comédie-Française—Young boys perfectionnés—Ducis—His work 398
CHAPTER II
Bonaparte's attempts at discovering poets—Luce de Lancival—Baour-Lormian—Lebrun-Pindare—Lucien Bonaparte, the author—Début of Mademoiselle Georges—The Abbé Geoffroy's critique—Prince Zappia—Hermione at Saint-Cloud 407
CHAPTER III
Imperial literature—The Jeunesse de Henri IV—Mercier and Alexandre Duval—The Templiers and their author—César Delrieu—Perpignan—Mademoiselle Georges' rupture with the Théâtre-Français—Her flight to Russia—The galaxy of kings—The tragédienne acts as ambassador 420
CHAPTER IV
The Comédie-Française at Dresden—Georges returns to the Théâtre-Français—The Deux Gendres—Mahomet II.—Tippo-Saëb—1814—Fontainebleau—The allied armies enter Paris—Lilies—Return from the isle of Elba—Violets—Asparagus stalks—Georges returns to Paris 430
CHAPTER V
The drawbacks to theatres which have the monopoly of a great actor—Lafond takes the rôle of Pierre de Portugal upon Talma declining it—Lafond—His school—His sayings—Mademoiselle Duchesnois—Her failings and her abilities-Pierre de Portugal succeeds 438
CHAPTER VI
General Riégo—His attempted insurrection—His escape and flight—He is betrayed by the brothers Lara—His trial—His execution 445
CHAPTER VII
The inn of the Tête-Noire—Auguste Ballet—Castaing—His trial—His attitude towards the audience and his words to the jury—His execution 452
CHAPTER VIII
Casimir Delavigne—An appreciation of the man and of the poet—The origin of the hatred of the old school of literature for the new—Some reflections upon Marino Faliero and the Enfants d'Édouard—Why Casimir Delavigne was more a comedy writer than a tragic poet—Where he found the ideas for his chief plays 465
CHAPTER IX
Talma in the École des Vieillards—One of his letters—Origin of his name and of his family—Tamerlan at the pension Verdier—Talma's début—Dugazon's advice—More advice from Shakespeare—Opinions of the critics of the day upon the débutant—Talma's passion for his art 480
MY MEMOIRS
BY
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
TRANSLATED BY
E. M. WALLER
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
ANDREW LANG
VOL. III
1826 TO 1830
1907
CONTENTS
BOOK I
CHAPTER I
I become a fully fledged employé—Bad plays—Thibaut—My studies with him—Where they have been of use to me—Amaury and the consumptives—My reading—Walter Scott—Cooper—Byron—The pleasure of eating sauerkraut at the Parthenon. 1
CHAPTER II
Byron's childhood—His grief at being lame—Mary Duff—The Malvern fortune-teller—How Byron and Robert Peel became acquainted—Miss Parker—Miss Chaworth—Verses on her portrait—Mrs. Musters—Lady Morgan—English Bards and Scotch Reviewers—Byron's letters to his mother—He takes his seat in the House of Lords. 3
CHAPTER III
Byron at Lisbon—How he quarrelled with his own countrymen—His poem Childe Harold—His fits of mad folly and subsequent depression—His marriage—His conjugal squabbles—He again quits England—His farewell to wife and child—His life and amours at Venice—He sets out for Greece—His arrival at Missolonghi—His illness and death. 21
CHAPTER IV
Usurped celebrity—M. Lemercier and his works—Racan's white hare—Le Fiesque by M. Ancelot—The Romantic artists —Scheffer—Delacroix—Sigalon—Schnetz—Coigniet—Boulanger —Géricault—La Méduse in the artist's studio—Lord Byron's funeral obsequies in England—Sheridan's body claimed for debt. 42
CHAPTER V
My mother comes to live with me—A Duc de Chartres born to me—Chateaubriand and M. de Villèle—Epistolary brevity—Re-establishment of the Censorship—A King of France should never be ill—Bulletins of the health of Louis XVIII.—His last moments and death—Ode by Victor Hugo—M. Torbet and Napoleon's tomb—La Fayette's voyage to America—The ovations showered upon him. 54
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CHAPTER VI
Tallancourt and Betz—The café Hollandais—My Quiroga cloak—First challenge—A lesson in shooting—The eve of my duel—Analysis of my sensations—My opponent fails to keep his appointment—The seconds hunt him out—The duel—Tallancourt and the mad dog. 65
CHAPTER VII
The Duc d'Orléans is given the title of Royal Highness—The coronation of Charles X.—Account of the ceremony by Madame la Duchesse d'Orléans—Death of Ferdinand of Naples—De La ville de Miremont—Le Cid d'Andalousie—M. Pierre Lebrun—A reading at the camp at Compiègne—M. Taylor is appointed a royal commissioner to the Théâtre-Français—The curé Bergeron—M. Viennet—Two of his letters—Pichat and his Léonidas. 75
CHAPTER VIII
Death of General Foy—His funeral—The Royal Highness—Assassination of Paul-Louis Courier—Death of the Emperor Alexander—Comparison of England and Russia—The reason why these two powers have increased during the last century—How Napoleon meant to conquer India. 87
CHAPTER IX
The Emperor Alexander—Letter from Czar Nicolas to Karamsine—History after the style of Suetonius and Saint-Simon—Catherine and Potemkin—Madame Braniska—The cost of the imperial cab-drive—A ball at M. de Caulaincourt's—The man with the pipe—The emperor's boatman and coachman. 100
CHAPTER X
Alexander leaves St. Petersburg—His presentiments of his death—The two stars seen at Taganrog—The emperor's illness—His last moments—How they learnt of his death in St. Petersburg—The Grand-Duke Constantine—His character and tastes—Why he renounced his right to the imperial throne—Jeannette Groudzenska. 115
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BOOK II
CHAPTER I
Rousseau and Romieu—Conversation with the porter—The eight hours' candle—The Deux Magots—At what hour one should wind up one's watch—M. le sous-préfet enjoys a joke—Henry Monnier—A paragraph of information—On suppers—On cigars. 131
CHAPTER II
The lantern—Le Chasse et l'Amour—Rousseau's part in it—The couplet about the hare—The couplet de facture—How there may be hares and hares—Reception at l'Ambigu—My first receipts as an author—Who Porcher was—Why no one might say anything against Mélesville. 144
CHAPTER III
The success of my first play—My three stories—M. Marle and his orthography—Madame Setier—A bad speculation—The Pâtre, by Montvoisin—The Oreiller—Madame Desbordes-Valmore—How she became a poetess—Madame Amable Tastu—The Dernier jour de l'année—Zéphire. 160
CHAPTER IV
Talma's illness—How he would have acted Tasso—His nephews—He receives a visit from M. de Quélen—Why his children renounced his faith—His death—La Noce et l'Enterrement—Oudard lectures me on my fondness for theatre-going—The capital reply that put the Palais-Royal in a gay humour—I still keep the confidence of Lassagne and de la Ponce—I obtain a success anonymously at the Porte-Saint-Martin. 173
CHAPTER V
Soulié at the mechanical saw-mill—His platonic love of gold—I desire to write a drama with him—I translate Fiesque—Death of Auguste Lafarge—My pay is increased and my position lowered—Félix Deviolaine, condemned by the medical faculty, is saved by illness—Louis XI. à Péronne—Talma's theatrical wardrobe—The loi de justice et d'amour—The disbanding of the National Guard. 187
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CHAPTER VI
English actors in Paris—Literary importations—Trente Ans, or la Vie d'un Joueur—The Hamlet of Kemble and Miss Smithson—A bas-relief of Mademoiselle de Fauveau—Visit to Frédéric Soulié—He declines to write Christine with me—A night attack—I come across Adèle d'Alvin once more—I spend the night au violon. 198
CHAPTER VII
Future landmarks—Compliments to the Duc de Bordeaux—Votes—Cauchois-Lemaire's Orléaniste brochure—The lake of Enghien—Colonel Bro's parrot—Doctor Ferrus—Morrisel—A tip-top funeral cortège—Hunting in full cry—An autopsy—Explanation of the death of the parrot. 207
CHAPTER VIII
Barthélemy and Méry—M. Éliça Gallay—Méry the draught-player and anatomist—L'Épître à Sidi Mahmoud—The Ponthieu library—Soulé—The Villéliade—Barthélemy the printer—Méry the improvisator—The Voux de la nouvelle année—The pastiche of Lucrèce. 223
CHAPTER IX
I pass from the Secretarial Department to the Record Office—M. Bichet—Wherein I resemble Piron—My spare time—M. Pieyre and M. Parseval de Grandmaison—A scene missing in Distrait—La Peyrouse—A success all to myself. 239
CHAPTER X
The painter Lethière—Brutus unveiled by M. Ponsard—Madame Hannemann—Gohier—Andrieux—Renaud—Desgenettes—Larrey, Augereau and the Egyptian mummy—Soldiers of the new school—My dramatic education—I enter the offices of the Forestry Department—The cupboard full of empty bottles—Three days away from the office—Am summoned before M. Deviolaine. 250
CHAPTER XI
Conclusion of Christine—A patron, after a fashion—Nodier recommends me to Taylor—The Royal Commissary and the author of Hécube—Semi-official reading before Taylor—Official reading before the Committee—I am received with acclamation—The intoxication of success—How history is written—M. Deviolaine's incredulity—Picard's opinions concerning my play—Nodier's opinion—Second reading at the Théâtre-Français and definite acceptance. 262
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CHAPTER XII
Cordelier-Delanoue—A sitting of the Athénée—M. Villenave—His family—The one hundred and thirty-two Nantais—Cathelineau—The hunt aux bleus—Forest—A chapter of history—Sauveur—The Royalist Committee—Souchu—The miraculous tomb—Carrier. 278
CHAPTER XIII
M. Villenave's house—The master's despotic rule—The savant's coquetry—Description of the sanctuary of the man of science—I am admitted, thanks to an autograph of Buonaparte—The crevice in the wall—The eight thousand folios—The pastel by Latour—Voyages of discovery for an Elzevir or a Faust—The fall of the portrait and the death of the original. 292
CHAPTER XIV
First representation of Soulié's Roméo et Juliette—Anaïs and Lockroy—Why French actresses cannot act Juliet—The studies of the Conservatoire—A second Christine at the Théâtre-Français—M. Évariste Dumoulin and Madame Valmonzey—Conspiracy against me—I give up my turn to have my play produced—How 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's—Another reading at Firmin's—Béranger is present—A few words about his influence and popularity—Effect produced by my drama—Reception by the Comédie-Française—Struggle for the distribution of parts—M. de Broval's ultimatum—Convicted of the crime of poetry I appeal to the Duc d'Orléans—His Royal Highness withholds my salary—M. Laffitte lends me three thousand francs—Condemnation of Béranger. 318
CHAPTER XVI
The Duc d'Orléans has my salary stopped—A scribbler (folliculaire)—Henri III. and the Censorship—My mother is seized with paralysis—Cazal—Edmond Halphen—A call on the Duc d'Orléans—First night of Henri III.—Effect is produced on M. Deviolaine—M. de Broval's congratulations. 328
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CHAPTER XVII
The day following my victory—Henri III. is interdicted—I obtain an audience with M. de Martignac—He removes the interdiction-Les hommes-obstacles—The Duc d'Orléans sends for me into his box—His talk with Charles X. on the subject of my drama—Another scribbler—Visit to Carrel—Gosset's shooting-box and pistols No. 5—An impossible duel. 341
BOOK III
CHAPTER I
The Arsenal—Nodier's house—The master's profile—The congress of bibliophiles—The three candles—Debureau—Mademoiselle Mars and Merlin—Nodier's family—His friends—In which houses I am at my best—The salon of the Arsenal—Nodier as a teller of tales—The ball and the warming-pan. 351
CHAPTER II
Oudard transmits to me the desires of the Duc d'Orléans—I am appointed assistant librarian—How this saved His Highness four hundred francs—Rivalry with Casimir Delavigne—Petition of the Classical School against Romantic productions—Letter of support from Mademoiselle Duchesnois—A fantastic dance—The person who called Racine a blackguard—Fine indignation of the Constitutionnel—First representation of Marino Faliero 365
CHAPTER III
Mesmerism—Experiment during a trance—I submit to being mesmerised—My observation upon it—I myself start to mesmerise—Experiment made in a diligence—Another experiment in the house of the procureur de la République of Joigny—Little Marie D****—Her political predictions—I cure her of fear. 380
CHAPTER IV
Fresh trials of newspaper editors—The Mouton-enragé—Fontan—Harel's witticism concerning him—The Fils de l'Homme before the Police Court—The author pleads his cause in verse—M. Guillebert's prose—Prison charges at Sainte-Pélagie—Embarrassment of the Duc d'Orléans about a historical portrait—The two usurpations. 395
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CHAPTER V
The things that are the greatest enemies to the success of a play—The honesty of Mademoiselle Mars as an actress—Her dressing-room—The habitués at her supper-parties—Vatout—Denniée—Becquet—Mornay—Mademoiselle Mars in her own home—Her last days on the stage—Material result of the success of Henri III.—My first speculation—The recasting of Christine—Where I looked for my inspiration—Two other ideas. 408
CHAPTER VI
Victor Hugo—His birth—His mother—Les Chassebouf and les Cornet—Captain Hugo—The signification of his name—Victor's godfather—The Hugo family in Corsica—M. Hugo is called to Naples by Joseph Bonaparte—He is appointed colonel and governor of the province of Avellino—Recollections of the poet's early childhood—Fra Diavolo—Joseph, King of Spain—Colonel Hugo is made a general, count, marquis and major-domo—The Archbishop of Tarragona—Madame Hugo and her children in Paris—The convent of Feuillantines. 420
CHAPTER VII
Departure for Spain—Journey from Paris to Bayonne—The treasure—Order of march of the convoy—M. du Saillant—M. de Cotadilla—Irun—Ernani—Salinas—The battalion of écloppés (cripples)—Madame Hugo's supplies of provisions—The forty Dutch grenadiers—Mondragon—The precipice—Burgos—Celadas—Alerte—The queen's review. 435
CHAPTER VIII
Segovia—M. de Tilly—The Alcazar—The doubloons—The castle of M. de la Calprenède and that of a Spanish grandee—The bourdaloue—Otero—The Dutchmen again—The Guadarrama—Arrival at Madrid—The palace of Masserano—The comet—The College—Don Manoël and Don Bazilio—Tacitus and Plautus—Lillo—The winter of 1812 to 1813—The Empecinado—The glass of eau sucrée—The army of merinoes—Return to Paris. 450
CHAPTER IX
The college and the garden of the Feuillantines—Grenadier or general—Victor Hugo's first appearance in public—He obtains honourable mention at the Academy examination—He carries off three prizes in the Jeux Floraux—Han d'Islande—The poet and the bodyguard—Hugo's marriage—The Odes et Ballades—Proposition made by cousin Cornet. 466
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CHAPTER X
Léopoldine—The opinions of the son of the Vendéenne—The Delon conspiracy—Hugo offers Delon shelter—Louis XVIII. bestows a pension of twelve hundred francs on the author of the Odes et Ballades—The poet at the office of the director-general des postes—How he learns the existence of the cabinet noir—He is made a chevalier of the Legion d'honneur—Beauchesne-Bug-Jargal—The Ambassador of Austria's soirée—Ode à la Colonne—Cromwell—How Marion Delorme was written. 480
CHAPTER XI
Reading of Marion Delorme at the house of Devéria—Steeplechase of directors—Marion Delorme is stopped by the Censorship—Hugo obtains an audience with Charles X.—His drama is definitely interdicted—They send him the brevet of a pension, which he declines—He sets to work on Hernani and completes it in twenty-four days. 496
CHAPTER XII
The invasion of barbarians—Rehearsals of Hernani—Mademoiselle Mars and the lines about the lion—The scene over the portraits—Hugo takes away from Mademoiselle Mars the part of Doña Sol—Michelot's flattering complaisance to the public—The quatrain about the cupboard—Joanny. 507
CHAPTER XIII
Alfred de Vigny—The man and his works—Harel, the manager at the Odéon—Downfall of Soulié's Christine—Parenthesis about Lassailly—Letter of Harel, with preface by myself and postscript by Soulié—I read my Christine at the Odéon—Harel asks me to put it into prose—First representation of the More de Venise—The actors and the papers. 521
CHAPTER XIV
Citizen-general Barras—Doctor Cabarrus introduces me to him—Barras's only two regrets—His dinners—The Princess de Chimay's footman—Fauche-Borel—The Duc de Bordeaux makes a mess—History lesson given to an ambassador—Walter Scott and Barras—The last happiness of the old directeur—His death. 535
MY MEMOIRS
BY
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
TRANSLATED BY
E. M. WALLER
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
ANDREW LANG
IN SIX VOLUMES
VOL. IV
1830 TO 1831
1908
CONTENTS
BOOK I
CHAPTER I
Mademoiselle Georges' house—Harel and Jules Janin—Young Tom and Popol—The latter's prayer against cholera—Georges' Oriental style of living—Her cleanliness—Harel's fault to the contrary—Twenty-four thousand francs flung out of the window—Saint Anthony—Piaff-Piaff—His dissoluteness—His death—His funeral oration 1
CHAPTER II
M. Briffaut, Censor and Academician—History of Ninus II.—M. de Lourdoueix—The idea of Antony—The piece received by the Français is stopped by the Censorship—The Duc de Chartres—Negotiations for his presence with that of his two brothers at the first representation of Christine—Louët—An autograph of the Prince Royal 9
CHAPTER III
The first representation of Hernani—The old ace of spades—The old man has a quarrel—Parodies—Origin of the story of Cabrion and of Pipelet—Eugène Sue and Desmares—Soulié returns to me—He offers me fifty of his workmen in the capacity of applauders—First representation of Christine—A supper at my lodgings—Hugo and de Vigny correct the objectionable lines 23
CHAPTER IV
A passing cab—Madame Dorval in the Incendiaire—Two actresses—The Duc d'Orléans asks for the Cross of the Legion of Honour on my behalf—His recommendation has no effect—M. Empis—Madame Lafond's Salon—My costume as Arnaute—Madame Malibran—Brothers and sisters in Art 34
CHAPTER V
Why the Duc d'Orléans' recommendation on the subject of my croix d'honneur failed—The indemnity of a milliard—La Fayette's journey to Auvergne—His reception at Grenoble, Vizille and at[Pg vi] Lyons—Charles X.'s journey to Alsace—Varennes and Nancy—Opening of the Chambers—The royal speech and the Address of the 221—Article 14—The conquest of Algiers and the recapture of our Rhine frontiers 44
CHAPTER VI
The soirée on 31 May 1830 at the Palais-Royal—The King of Naples—A question of etiquette—How the King of France ought to be addressed—The real Charles X.—M. de Salvandy—The first flames of the volcano—The Duc de Chartres sends me to inquire into the commotion—Alphonse Signol—I tear him from the clutches of a soldier of the Garde royal—His irritation and threats—The volcano nothing but a fire of straw 54
CHAPTER VII
A pressing affair—One witness lost, and two found—Rochefort—Signol at the Théâtre des Italiens—He insults Lieutenant Marulaz—The two swords—The duel—Signol is killed—Victorine and le Chiffonnier—Death steps in 61
BOOK II
CHAPTER I
Alphonse Karr—The cuirassier—The medal for life saving and the Cross of the Légion d'honneur—Karr's home at Montmartre—Sous les tilleuls and the critics—The taking of Algiers—M. Dupin senior—Why he did not write his Memoirs—Signing of the Ordinances of July—Reasons that prevented my going to Algiers 67
CHAPTER II
The third storey of No. 7 in the rue de l'Université—The first results of the Ordinances—The café du Roi—Étienne Arago—François Arago—The Academy—La Bourse—Le Palais-Royal—Madame de Leuven—Journey in search of her husband and son—Protest of the journalists—Names of the signatories 77
CHAPTER III
The morning of July 27—Visit to my mother—Paul Foucher—Amy Robsart—Armand Carrel—The office of the Temps—Baude—The Commissary of Police—The three locksmiths—The office of the National—Cadet Gassicourt—Colonel Gourgaud—M. de Rémusat—Physiognomy of the passers-by [Pg vii] 86
CHAPTER IV
Doctor Thibaut—The Government of Gérard and Mortemart—Étienne Arago and Mazue, the Superintendent of Police—The café Gobillard—Fire at the guard-house in the place de la Bourse—The first barricades—The night 97
CHAPTER V
The morning of the 27th—Joubert—Charles Teste—La Petite Jacobinière—Chemist Robinet—The arms used in Sergent Mathieu—Pillage of an armourer's stores—The three Royal Guards—A tall and fair young man—Oudard's fears 105
CHAPTER VI
The aspect of the rue de Richelieu—Charras—L'École polytechnique—The head with the wig—The café of the Porte Saint-Honoré—The tricoloured flag—I become head of a troop—My landlord gives me notice—A gentleman who distributes powder—The captain of the 15th Light Infantry 114
CHAPTER VII
The attack on the Hôtel de Ville—Rout—I take refuge at M. Lethière's—The news—My landlord becomes generous—General La Fayette—Taschereau—Béranger—The list of the Provisional Government—Honest mistake of the Constitutionnel 125
CHAPTER VIII
Invasion of the Artillery Museum—Armour of François I.—Charles IX.'s arquebuse—La place de l'Odéon—What Charras had been doing—The uniform of the École polytechnique—Millotte—The prison Montaigu—The barracks of l'Estrapade—D'Hostel—A Bonapartist—Riding-master Chopin—Lothon—The general in command 134
CHAPTER IX
Aspect of the Louvre—Fight on the Pont des Arts—The dead and wounded—A cannon ball for myself—Madame Guyet-Desfontaines—Return from the Babylone barracks—Charras's cockade—The taking of the Tuileries—A copy of Christine—Quadrille danced in the Tuileries court—The men who made the Revolution of 1830 [Pg viii] 149
BOOK III
CHAPTER I
I go in search of Oudard—The house at the corner of the rue de Rohan—Oudard is with Laffitte—Degousée—General Pajol and M. Dupin—The officers of the 53rd Regiment—Interior of Laffitte's salon—Panic—A deputation comes to offer La Fayette the command of Paris—He accepts—Étienne Arago and the tricoloured cockade—History 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 Ville—Charras and his men—"The Prunes of Monsieur"—The Municipal Commission—Its first Act—Casimir Périer's bank—General Gérard—The Duc de Choiseul—What happened at Saint-Cloud—The three negotiators—It is too late—M. d'Argout with Laffitte 175
CHAPTER III
Alexander de la Borde—Odilon Barrot—Colonel Dumoulin—Hippolyte Bonnelier—My study—A note in Oudard's handwriting—The Duc de Chartres is arrested at Montrouge—The danger he incurred and how he was saved—I propose to go to Soissons to fetch gunpowder—I procure my commission from General Gérard—La Fayette draws up a proclamation for me—The painter bard—M. Thiers to the fore once more 187
CHAPTER IV
Gee up, Polignac!—André Marchais—Post-master at Bourget—I display the Tricolour on my carriage—Bard joins me—M. Cunin-Gridaine—Old Levasseur—Struggle with him—I blow out his brains!—Two old acquaintances—The terror of Jean-Louis—Our halt at Villers-Cotterets—Hutin—Supper with Paillet 203
CHAPTER V
Arrival at Soissons—Strategic preparations—Reconnaissance round the magazine—Hutin and Bard plant the tricolour flag upon the cathedral—I climb the wall of the powder magazine—Captain Mollard—Sergeant Ragon—Lieutenant-Colonel d'Orcourt—Parleys with them—They promise me neutrality [Pg ix] 217
CHAPTER VI
How matters had proceeded with the sacristan—The four-inch gun—Bard as gunner—The commander of the fort—Lieutenant Tinga—M. de Lenferna—M. Bonvilliers—Madame de Linières—The revolt of the negroes—The conditions upon which the commander of the fort signed the order—M. Moreau—M. Quinette—The Mayor of Soissons—Bard and the green plums 224
CHAPTER VII
The Mayor of Soissons—The excise-office powder—M. Jousselin— The hatchet belonging to the warehouse-keeper—M. Quinette—I break open the door of the powder magazine—Triumphant exit from Soissons—M. Mennesson attempts to have me arrested—The Guards of the Duc d'Orléans—M. Boyer—Return to Paris—"Those devils of Republicans!" 234
CHAPTER VIII
First Orléanist proclamation—MM. Thiers and Scheffer go to Neuilly—The evening at Saint-Cloud—Charles X. revokes the Ordinances—Republican deputation at the Hôtel de Ville—M. de Sussy—Audry de Puyraveau—Republican proclamation—La Fayette's reply to the Duc de Mortemart—Charras and Mauguin 245
CHAPTER IX
Philippe VII.—How Béranger justified himself for having helped to make a King—The Duc d'Orléans during the three days—His arrival in Paris on the evening of the 30th—He sends for M. de Mortemart—Unpublished letter by him to Charles X.—Benjamin Constant and Laffitte—Deputation of the Chamber to the Palais-Royal—M. Sébastiani—M. de Talleyrand—The Duc d'Orléans accepts the Lieutenant-Generalship of the Kingdom—Curious papers found at the Tuileries 239
CHAPTER X
The Duc d'Orléans goes to the Hôtel de Ville—M. Laffitte in his sedan-chair—The king sans culotte—Tardy manifestation of the Provisional Government—Odilon Barrot sleeps on a milestone—Another Balthasar Gérard—The Duc d'Orléans is received by La Fayette—A superb voice—Fresh appearance of general Dubourg—The balcony of the Hôtel de Ville—The road to Joigny [Pg x] 276
BOOK IV
CHAPTER I
M. Thiers' way of writing history—Republicans at the Palais-Royal—Louis-Philippe's first ministry—Casimir Périer's cunning—My finest drama—Lothon and Charras—A sword-thrust—The posting-master of Bourget once more—La Fère—Lieutenant-Colonel Duriveau—Lothon and General La Fayette 284
CHAPTER II
Letter of Charles X. to the Duc d'Orléans—A conjuring trick—Return of the Duc de Chartres to the Palais-Royal—Bourbons and Valois—Abdication of Charles X.—Preparations for the expedition of Rambouillet—An idea of Harel—The scene-shifters of the Odéon—Nineteen persons in one fiacre—Distribution of arms at the Palais-Royal—Colonel Jacqueminot 309
CHAPTER III
Mission of four commissioners to Charles X.—General Pajol—He is appointed commander of the Paris Volunteers—Charras offers to be his aide-de-camp—The map of Seine-et-Oise—The spies—The hirer of carriages—Rations of bread—D'Arpentigny—The taking of the artillery of Saint-Cyr—Halt at Cognières—M. Detours 320
CHAPTER IV
Boyer the Cruel—The ten thousand rations of bread—General Exelmans and Charras—The concierge at the prefecture of Versailles—M. Aubernon—Colonel Poque—Interview of Charles X. with MM. de Schonen, Odilon Barrot and Marshal Maison—The Royal Family leave Rambouillet—Panic—The crown jewels—Return to Paris 332
CHAPTER V
Harel's idea—It is suggested I should compose La Parisienne—Auguste Barbier—My state of morals after the Three Days—I turn solicitor—Breakfast with General La Fayette—My interview with him—An indiscreet question—The Marquis de Favras—A letter from Monsieur—My commission [Pg xi]344
CHAPTER VI
Léon Pillet—His uniform—Soissonnais susceptibility—Hard returns to the charge with his play—I set out for la Vendée—The quarry—I obtain pardon for a coiner condemned to the galleys—My stay at Meurs—Commandant Bourgeois—Disastrous effect of the tricolours in le Bocage—Fresh proofs that a kindness done is never lost 354
CHAPTER VII
A warning to Parisian sportsmen—Clisson—The château of M. Lemot—My guide—The Vendean column—The battle of Torfou—Two omitted names—Piffanges—Tibulle and the Loire—Gilles de Laval—His edifying death—Means taken to engrave a remembrance on the minds of children 368
CHAPTER VIII
Le Bocage—Its deep lanes and hedges—The Chouan tactics—Vendean horses and riders—Vendean politics—The Marquis de la Bretèche and his farmers—The means I suggested to prevent a fresh Chouannerie—The tottering stone—I leave la Jarrie—Adieux to my guide 376
CHAPTER IX
The Nantes Revolution—Régnier—Paimbouf—Landlords and travellers—Jacomety—The native of la Guadeloupe and his wife—Gull shooting—Axiom for sea-bird shooting—The captain of la Pauline—Woman and swallow—Lovers' superstition—Getting under sail 384
CHAPTER X
Story of Bougainville and his friend the curé of Boulogne 392
CHAPTER XI
Breakfast on deck—Saint-Nazaire—A thing husbands never think of—Noirmontiers —Belle-Ile—I leave the two Paulines—The rope-ladder—The ship's boat—A total immersion—The inn at Saint-Nazaire—I throw money through the window—A batch of clothes—Return to Paris 409
BOOK V
CHAPTER I
Confidential letter from Louis-Philippe to the Emperor Nicholas—The Czar's reply—What France could do after the Revolution of[Pg xii] July—Louis-Philippe and Ferdinand VII.—The Spanish refugees—Reaction in the Home department—Scraping of the public monuments—Protest 418
CHAPTER II
The drama of Saint-Leu—The bravery of the Duc d'Aumale—The arrest of MM. Peyronnet, Chantelauze, Guernon-Ranville and Polignac—Madame de Saint-Fargeau's servant—Thomas and M. de Polignac—The ex-ministers at Vincennes—The abolition of the death penalty in the Chamber—La Fayette—M. de Kératry—Salverte—Death to the ministers—Vive Odilon Barrot and Pétion! 429
CHAPTER III
Oudard tells me that Louis-Philippe wishes to see me—Visit to M. Deviolaine—Hutin, supernumerary horse-guardsman—My interview with the king about la Vendée and the policy of juste milieu—Bixio an artilleryman—He undertakes to get me enrolled in his battery—I send in my resignation to Louis-Philippe 443
CHAPTER IV
First performance of la Mère et la Fille—I have supper with Harel after the performance—Harel imprisons me after supper—I am sentenced to eight days' enforced work at Napoléon—On the ninth day the piece is read to the actors and I am set at liberty—The rehearsals—The actor Charles—His story about Nodier 457
CHAPTER V
I am officially received into the Artillery Corps of the National Guard—Antony is put under rehearsal at the Théâtre-Français—Ill-will of the actors—Treaty between Hugo and the manager of the Porte-Saint-Martin—Firmin's proposition and confidence—Mademoiselle Mars' dresses and the new gas lights—I withdraw Antony from the Théâtre-Français—I offer Dorval the part of Adèle 472
CHAPTER VI
My agreements with Dorval—I read Antony—Her impressions— She makes me alter the last act there and then—Merle's room—Bocage as artist—Bocage as negotiator—Reading to M. Crosnier—He falls into a profound slumber—The play nevertheless is accepted
APPENDIX493
MY MEMOIRS
BY
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
TRANSLATED BY
E. M. WALLER
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
ANDREW LANG
IN SIX VOLUMES
VOL. V
1831 TO 1832
1908
CONTENTS
BOOK I
CHAPTER I
Organisation of the Parisian Artillery—Metamorphosis of my uniform of a Mounted National Guardsman—Bastide—Godefroy Cavaignac—Guinard—Thomas—Names of the batteries and of their principal servants—I am summoned to seize the Chamber—How many of us came to the rendez-vous 1
CHAPTER II
Odilon Barrot, Préfet of the Seine—His soirées—His proclamation upon the subject of riots—Dupont (de l'Eure) and Louis-Philippe—Resignation of the ministry of Molé and Guizot—The affair of the forest of Breteuil—The Laffitte ministry—The 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 Constant—Concerning his life—Funeral honours that were conferred upon him—His funeral—Law respecting national rewards—The trial of the ministers—Grouvelle and his sister—M. Mérilhou and the neophyte—Colonel Lavocat—The Court of Peers—Panic—Fieschi 38
CHAPTER VI
The artillerymen at the Louvre—Bonapartist plot to take our cannon from us—Distribution of cartridges by Godefroy Cavaignac—The concourse of people outside the Luxembourg when the ministers were sentenced—Departure of the condemned for Vincennes—Defeat of the judges—La Fayette and the riot—Bastide and Commandant Barré on guard with Prosper Mérimée 50
CHAPTER VII
We are surrounded in the Louvre courtyard—Our ammunition taken by surprise—Proclamation of the Écoles—Letter of Louis-Philippe[Pg vi] to La Fayette—The Chamber vote of thanks to the Colleges—Protest of the École polytechnique—Discussion at the Chamber upon the General Commandership of the National Guard—Resignation of La Fayette—The king's reply—I am appointed second captain 59
CHAPTER VIII
The Government member—Chodruc-Duclos—His portrait—His life at Bordeaux—His imprisonment at Vincennes—The Mayor of Orgon—Chodruc-Duclos converts himself into a Diogenes—M. Giraud-Savine—Why Nodier was growing old—Stibert—A lesson in shooting—Death of Chodruc-Duclos 68
CHAPTER IX
Alphonse Rabbe—Madame Cardinal—Rabbe and the Marseilles Academy—Les Massénaires—Rabbe in Spain—His return—The Old Dagger—The Journal Le Phocéen—Rabbe in prison—The writer of fables—Ma pipe 77
CHAPTER X
Rabbe's friends—La Sour grise—The historical résumés—M. Brézé's advice—An imaginative man—Berruyer's style—Rabbe with his hairdresser, his concierge and confectioner—La Sour grise stolen—Le Centaure 88
CHAPTER XI
Adèle—Her devotion to Rabbe—Strong meat—Appel à Dieu—L'âme et la comédie humaine—La mort—Ultime lettere—Suicide—À Alphonse Rabbe, by Victor Hugo 99
CHAPTER XII
Chéron—His last compliments to Harel—Obituary of 1830—My official visit on New Year's Day—A striking costume—Read the Moniteur—Disbanding of the Artillery of the National Guard—First representation of Napoléon Bonaparte—Delaistre—Frédérick-Lemaître 109
BOOK II
CHAPTER I
The Abbé Châtel—The programme of his church—The Curé of Lèves and M. Clausel de Montals—The Lévois embrace the religion of the primate of the Gauls—Mass in French—The Roman curé—A dead body to inter 117
[Pg vii]
CHAPTER II
Fine example of religious toleration—The Abbé Dallier—The Circes of Lèves—Waterloo after Leipzig—The Abbé Dallier is kept as hostage—The barricades—The stones of Chartres—The outlook—Preparations for fighting 124
CHAPTER III
Attack of the barricade—A sequel to Malplaquet—The Grenadier—The Chartrian philanthropists—Sack of the bishop's palace—A fancy dress—How order was restored—The culprits both small and great—Death of the Abbé Ledru—Scruples of conscience of the former schismatics—The Dies iræ of Kosciusko 130
CHAPTER IV
The Abbé de Lamennais—His prediction of the Revolution of 1830—Enters the Church—His views on the Empire—Casimir Delavigne, Royalist—His early days—Two pieces of poetry by M. de Lamennais—His literary vocation—Essay on Indifference in Religious Matters—Reception given to this book by the Church—The academy of the château de la Chesnaie 138
CHAPTER V
The founding of l'Avenir—L'Abbé Lacordaire—M. Charles de Montalembert—His article on the sacking of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois—l'Avenir and the new literature—My first interview with M. de Lamennais—Lawsuit against l'Avenir—MM. de Montalembert and Lacordaire as schoolmasters—Their trial in the Cour des pairs—The capture of Warsaw—Answer of four poets to a word spoken by a statesman 148
CHAPTER VI
Suspension of l'Avenir—Its three principal editors present themselves at Rome—The Abbé de Lamennais as musician—The trouble it takes to obtain an audience of the Pope—The convent of Santo-Andrea della Valle—Interview of M. de Lamennais with Gregory XVI.—The statuette of Moses—The doctrines of l'Avenir are condemned by the Council of Cardinals—Ruin of M. de Lamennais—The Paroles d'un Croyant 160
CHAPTER VII
Who Gannot was—Mapah—His first miracle—The wedding at Cana—Gannot, phrenologist—Where his first ideas on phrenology came from—The unknown woman—The change wrought in Gannot's life—How he becomes Mapah 167
[Pg viii]
CHAPTER VIII
The god and his sanctuary—He informs the Pope of his overthrow—His manifestoes—His portrait—-Doctrine of escape—Symbols of that religion—Chaudesaigues takes me to the Mapah—Iswara and Pracriti—Questions which are wanting in actuality—-War between the votaries of bidja and the followers of sakti—My last interview with the Mapah 176
CHAPTER IX
Apocalypse of the being who was once called Caillaux186
BOOK III
CHAPTER I
The scapegoat of power—Legitimist hopes—The expiatory mass—The Abbé Olivier—The Curé of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois—Pachel—Where I begin to be wrong—General Jacqueminot—Pillage of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois—The sham Jesuit and the Préfet of Police—The Abbé Paravey's room 203
CHAPTER II
The Préfet of Police at the Palais-Royal—The function of fire—Valérius, the truss-maker—Demolition of the archbishop's palace—The Chinese album—François Arago—The spectators of the riot—The erasure of the fleurs-de-lis—I give in my resignation a second time—MM. Chambolle and Casimir Périer 211
CHAPTER III
My dramatic faith wavers—Bocage and Dorval reconcile me with myself—A political trial wherein I deserved to figure—Downfall of the Laffitte Ministry—Austria and the Duc de Modena—Maréchal Maison is Ambassador at Vienna—The story of one of his dispatches—Casimir Périer Prime Minister—His reception at the Palais-Royal—They make him the amende honorable 220
CHAPTER IV
Trial of the artillerymen—Procureur-général Miller—Pescheux d'Herbinville—Godefroy Cavaignac—Acquittal of the accused—The ovation they received—Commissioner Gourdin—The cross of July—The red and black ribbon—Final rehearsals of Antony 229
CHAPTER V
The first representation of Antony—The play, the actors, the public—Antony at the Palais-Royal—Alterations of the dénoûment 238
[Pg ix]
CHAPTER VI
The inspiration under which I composed Antony—The Preface—Wherein lies the moral of the piece—Cuckoldom, Adultery and the Civil Code—Quem nuptiæ demonstrant—Why the Critics exclaimed that my Drama was immoral—Account given by the least malevolent among them—How prejudices against bastardy are overcome 249
CHAPTER VII
A word on criticism—Molière estimated by Bossuet, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and by Bourdaloue—An anonymous libel—Critics of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries—M. François de Salignac de la Motte de Fénelon—Origin of the word Tartuffe—M. Taschereau and M. Étienne 256
CHAPTER VIII
Thermometer of Social Crises—Interview with M. Thiers—His intentions with regard to the Théâtre-Français—Our conventions—Antony comes back to the rue de Richelieu—The Constitutionnel—Its leader against Romanticism in general, and against my drama in particular—Morality of the ancient theatre—Parallel between the Théâtre-Français and that of the Porte-Saint-Martin—First suspension of Antony 265
CHAPTER IX
My discussion with M. Thiers—Why he had been compelled to suspend Antony—Letter of Madame Dorval to the Constitutionnel—M. Jay crowned with roses—My lawsuit with M. Jouslin de Lasalle—There are still judges in Berlin! 278
CHAPTER X
Republican banquet at the Vendanges de Bourgogne—The toasts—To Louis-Philippe!—Gathering of those who were decorated in July—Formation of the board—Protests—Fifty yards of ribbon—A dissentient—Contradiction in the Moniteur—Trial of Évariste Gallois—His examination—His acquittal 289
CHAPTER XI
The incompatibility of literature with riotings—La Maréchale d'Ancre—My opinion concerning that piece—Farruck le Maure—The début of Henry Monnier at the Vaudeville—I leave Paris—Rouen—Havre—I[Pg x] meditate going to explore Trouville—What is Trouville?—The consumptive English lady—Honfleur—By land or by sea 299
CHAPTER XII
Appearance of Trouville—Mother Oseraie—How people are accommodated at Trouville when they are married—The price of painters and of the community of martyrs—Mother Oseraie's acquaintances—How she had saved the life of Huet, the landscape painter—My room and my neighbour's—A twenty-franc dinner for fifty sous—A walk by the sea-shore—Heroic resolution 308
CHAPTER XIII
A reading at Nodier's—The hearers and the readers—Début—Les Marrons du feu—La Camargo and the Abbé Desiderio—Genealogy of a dramatic idea—Orestes and Hermione—Chimène and Don Sancho—Goetz von Berlichingen—Fragments—How I render to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's 317
CHAPTER XIV
Poetry is the Spirit of God—The Conservatoire and l'École of Rome—Letter of counsel to my Son—Employment of my time at Trouville—Madame de la Garenne—The Vendéan Bonnechose—M. Beudin—I am pursued by a fish—What came of it 336
CHAPTER XV
Why M. Beudin came to Trouville—How I knew him under another name—Prologue of a drama—What remained to be done—Division into three parts—I finish Charles VII.—Departing from Trouville—In 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 industrial—The workmen of Lyons—M. Bouvier-Dumolard—General Roguet—Discussion and signing of the tariff regulating the price of the workmanship of fabrics—The makers refuse to submit to it—Artificial prices for silk-workers—Insurrection[Pg xi] of Lyons—Eighteen millions on the civil list—Timon's calculations—An unlucky saying of M. de Montalivet 376
CHAPTER II
Death of Mirabeau—The accessories of Charles VII.—A shooting party—Montereau—A temptation I cannot resist—Critical position in which my shooting companions and I find ourselves—We introduce ourselves into an empty house by breaking into it at night—Inspection of the premises—Improvised supper—As one makes one's bed, so one lies on it—I go to see the dawn rise—Fowl and duck shooting—Preparations for breakfast—Mother Galop 388
CHAPTER III
Who Mother Galop was—Why M. Dupont-Delporte was absent— How I quarrelled with Viardot—Rabelais's quarter of an hour—Providence No. I—The punishment of Tantalus—A waiter who had not read Socrates—Providence No. 2—A breakfast for four—Return to Paris 397
CHAPTER IV
Le Masque de fer—Georges' suppers—The garden of the Luxembourg by moonlight—M. Scribe and the Clerc de la Basoche—M. d'Épagny and Le Clerc et le Théologien—Classical performances at the Théâtre-Français—Les Guelfes, by M. Arnault—Parenthesis—Dedicatory epistle to the prompter 406
CHAPTER V
M. Arnault's Pertinax—Pizarre, by M. Fulchiron—M. Fulchiron as a politician—M. Fulchiron as magic poet—A word about M. Viennet—My opposite neighbour at the performance of Pertinax—Splendid failure of the play—Quarrel with my vis-à-vis—The newspapers take it up—My reply in the Journal de Paris—Advice of M. Pillet 419
CHAPTER VI
Chateaubriand ceases to be a peer of France—He leaves the country—Béranger's song thereupon—Chateaubriand as versifier—First night of Charles VII.—Delafosse's vizor—Yaqoub and Frédérick-Lemaître—La Reine d'Espagne—M. Henri de Latouche—His works, talent and character—Interlude of La Reine d'Espagne—Preface of the play—Reports of the pit collected by the author 432
[Pg xii]
CHAPTER VII
Victor Escousse and Auguste Lebras 440
CHAPTER VIII
First performance of Robert le Diable—Véron, manager of the Opéra—His opinion concerning Meyerbeer's music—My opinion concerning Véron's intellect—My relations with him—His articles and Memoirs—Rossini's judgment of Robert le Diable—Nourrit, the preacher—Meyerbeer—First performance of the Fuite de Law, by M. Mennechet—First performance of Richard Darlington—Frédérick—Lemaître—Delafosse—Mademoiselle 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
Collaboration—A whim of Bocage—Anicet Bourgeois—Teresa—Drama at the Opéra-Comique—Laferrière and the eruption of Vesuvius—Mélingue—Fancy-dress ball at the Tuileries—The place de Grève and the barrière Saint-Jacques—The death penalty 491
CHAPTER XIV
The peregrinations of Casimir Delavigne—Jeanne Vaubernier—Rougemont—His translation of Cambronne's mot—First representation of Teresa—Long and short pieces—Cordelier Delanoue and his Mathieu Luc—Closing 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
TRANSLATED BY
E. M. WALLER
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
ANDREW LANG
VOL. VI
1832 TO 1833
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1909
CONTENTS
BOOK I
CHAPTER I
Preparations for my Fancy Dress Ball—I find that my lodgings are too much after the style of Socrates—My artist-decorators—The question of the supper—I go for provisions to la Ferté-Vidame—View of this capital town of the Canton, by night, in a snowstorm—My nephew's room—My friend Gondon—Roebuck hunting—Return to Paris—I invent a Bank of Exchange before M. Proudhon—The artists at work—The 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 ball—Oil and distemper—Inconveniences of working at night—How Delacroix did his task—The ball—Serious men—La Fayette and Beauchene—Variety of costumes—The invalid and the undertaker's man—The last galop—A political play—A moral play 42
[Pg vi]
CHAPTER II
Dix ans de la vie d'une femme 53
CHAPTER III
Doligny manager of the theatre in Italy—Saint-Germain bitten by the tarantula—How they could have livened up Versailles if Louis-Philippe had wished it—The censorship of the Grand-Duke of Tuscany—The bindings of printer Batelli—Richard 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 Gaillardet—The Revue des Deux Mondes—M. Buloz—The Journal des Voyages—My first attempt at Roman history—Isabeau de Bavière—A witty man of five foot nine inches 91
CHAPTER V
Success of my Scènes historiques—Clovis and Hlodewig (Chlodgwig)—I wish to apply myself seriously to the study of the history of France—The Abbé Gauthier and M. de Moyencourt—Cordelier-Delanoue reveals to me Augustine Thierry and Chateaubriand—New aspects of history—Gaule et France—A drama in collaboration with Horace Vernet and Auguste Lafontaine 99
CHAPTER VI
Édith aux longs cheveux—Catherine Howard 107
BOOK III
CHAPTER I
An invasion of cholera—Aspect of Paris—Medicine and the scourge—Proclamation of the Prefect of Police—The supposed poisoners—Harel's newspaper paragraph—Mademoiselle Dupont—Eugène Durieu and Anicet Bourgeois—Catherine (not Howard) and the cholera—First performance of Mari de la veuve—A horoscope which did not come true 115
CHAPTER II
My régime against the cholera—I am attacked by the epidemic —I invent etherisation—Harel comes to suggest to me[Pg vii] La Tour de Nesle—Verteuil's manuscript—Janin and the tirade of the grandes dames—First idea of the prison scene—My terms with Harel—Advantages offered by me to M. Gaillardet—The spectator in the Odéon—Known and unknown authors—My first letter to M. Gaillardet 127
CHAPTER III
M. Gaillardet's answer and protest—Frédérick and Buridan's part—Transaction with M. Gaillardet—First performance of La Tour de Nesle—The play and its interpreters—The day following a success—M. * * *—A profitable trial in prospect—Georges' caprice—The manager, author and collaborator 142
CHAPTER IV
The use of friends—Le Musée des Familles—An article by M. Gaillardet—My reply to it—Challenge from M. Gaillardet —I accept it with effusion—My adversary demands a first respite of a week—I summon him before the Commission of Dramatic Authors—He declines that arbitration—I send him my seconds—He asks a delay of two months—Janin's letter to the newspapers 156
CHAPTER V
Sword and pistol—Whence arose my aversion to the latter weapon—Philippe's puppet—The statue of Corneille—An autograph in extremis—Le bois de Vincennes—A duelling toilet—Scientific question put by Bixio—The conditions of the duel—Official report of the seconds—How Bixio's problem found its solution 186
BOOK IV
CHAPTER I
The masquerade of the budget at Grenoble—M. Maurice Duval—The serenaders—Escapade of the 35th of the line—The insurrection it excites—Arrest of General Saint-Clair—Taking of the préfecture and of the citadel by Bastide—Bastide at Lyons—Order reigns at Grenoble—Casimir Périer, Gamier-Pages and M. Dupin—Report of the municipality of Grenoble—Acquittal of the rioters—Restoration of the 35th—Protest of a smoker 198
[Pg viii]
CHAPTER II
General Dermoncourt's papers—Protest of Charles X. against the usurpation of the Duc d'Orléans—The stoutest of political men—Attempt at restoration planned by Madame la duchesse de Berry—The Carlo-Alberto—How I write authentic notes—Landing of Madame near La Ciotat—Legitimist affray at Marseilles—Madame set out for La Vendée—M. de Bonnechose—M. de Villeneuve—M. de Lorge 215
CHAPTER III
Madame's itinerary—Panic—M. de Puylaroque—Domine salvum fac Philippum—The château de Dampierre—Madame de la Myre—The pretended cousin and the curé—M. Guibourg—M. de Bourmont—Letter of Madame to M. de Coislin—The noms de guerre—Proclamation of Madame—New kind of henna—M. Charette—Madame is nearly drowned in the Maine—The sexton in charge of the provisions—A night in the stable—The Legitimists of Paris—They dispatch M. Berryer into la Vendée 230
CHAPTER IV
Interview between MM. Berryer and de Bourmont—The messenger's guides—The movable column—M. Charles—Madame's hiding-place—Madame refuses to leave la Vendée—She rallies her followers to arms—Death of General Lamarque—The deputies of the Opposition meet together at Laffitte's house—They decide to publish a statement to the nation—MM. Odilon Barrot and de Cormenin are commissioned to draw up this report—One hundred and thirty-three deputies sign it 247
CHAPTER V
Last moments of General Lamarque—What his life had been— One of my interviews with him—I am appointed one of the stewards of the funeral cortège—The procession—Symptoms of popular agitation—The marching past across the place Vendôme—The Duke Fitz-James—Conflicts provoked by the town police—The students of the École Polytechnique join the cortège—Arrival of the funeral procession at the pont d'Austerlitz—Speeches—First shots—The man with the red flag—Allocution of Étienne Arago 260
[Pg ix]
CHAPTER VI
The artillerymen—Carrel and le National—Barricades of the boulevard Bourdon and in the rue de Ménilmontant— The carriage of General La Fayette—A bad shot from my friends—Despair of Harel—The pistols in Richard—The women are against us—I distribute arms to the insurgents—Change of uniform—The meeting at Laffitte's—Progress of the insurrection—M. Thiers—Barricade Saint-Merry—Jeanne—Rossignol—Barricade of the passage du Saumon—Morning of 6 June 281
CHAPTER VII
Inside the barricade Saint-Merry, according to a Parisian child's account—General Tiburce Sébastiani—Louis-Philippe during the insurrection—M. Guizot—MM. François Arago, Laffitte and Odilon Barrot at the Tuileries—The last argument of Kings—Étienne Arago and Howelt—Denunciation against me—M. Binet's report 301
BOOK V
CHAPTER I
Le Fils de l'Émigré—I learn the news of my premature death—I am advised to take a voyage for prudence and health's sake—I choose Switzerland—Gosselin's literary opinion on that country—First effect of change of air—From Châlon to Lyons by a low train—The ascent of Cerdon—Arrival at Geneva 317
CHAPTER II
Great explanations about the bear-steak—Jacotot—An ill-sounding epithet—A seditious felt hat—The carabineers who were too clever—I quarrel with King Charles-Albert over the Dent du Chat—Princes and men of intellect 323
CHAPTER III
22 July 1832 339
CHAPTER IV
Edict unbaptizing the King of Rome—Anecdotes of the childhood of the Duc de Reichstadt—Letter of Sir Hudson Lowe announcing the death of Napoleon 346
[Pg x]
CHAPTER V
Prince Metternich is appointed to teach the history of Napoleon to the Duc de Reichstadt—The Duke's plan of political conduct—The poet Barthélemy at Vienna—His interviews with Count Dietrichstein—Opinion of the Duc de Reichstadt on the poem Napoleon en Egypt 353
CHAPTER VI
Journey of the Duc de Reichstadt—M. le Chevalier de Prokesch—Questions concerning the recollections left by Napoléon en Égypte—The ambition of the Duc de Reichstadt—The Countesse Camerata—The prince is appointed lieutenant-colonel—He becomes hoarse when holding a review—He falls ill—Report upon his health by Dr. Malfatti 363
CHAPTER VII
The Duc de Reichstadt at Schönbrünn—Progress of his disease—The Archduchess Sophia—The prince's last moments—His death—Effect produced by the news at Paris—Article of the Constitutionnel upon this event 373
BOOK VI
CHAPTER I
Lucerne—The lion of August 10—M. de Chateaubriand's fowls—Reichenau—A picture by Conder—Letter to M. le duc d'Orléans—A walk in the park of Arenenberg 383
CHAPTER II
News of France—First performance of Le Fils de l'Émigré— What Le Constitutionnel thought of it—Effect produced by that play on the Parisian population in general and on M. Véron in particular—Death of Walter Scott—Perrinet Leclerc—Sic vos non vobis 401
CHAPTER III
La Duchesse de Berry returns to Nantes disguised as a peasant woman—The basket of apples—The house Duguigny—Madame in her hiding-place—Simon Deutz—His antecedents—His mission—He enters into treaty with MM. Thiers and Montalivet—He starts for la Vendée 412
[Pg xi]
CHAPTER IV
M. Maurice Duval is made Préfet of the Loire-Inférieure— The Nantais give him a charivari—Deutz's persistent attempts to see Madame—He obtains a first and then a second audience—Besieging of the maison Duguigny—The hiding-place—The police searches—Discovery of the Duchess 424
CHAPTER V
First moments after the arrest—Madame's 13,000 francs—What a gendarme can win by sleeping on a camp-bed and making philosophic reflections thereon—The duchess at the Château de Nantes—She is transferred to Blaye—Judas 438
BOOK VII
CHAPTER I
Le Roi s'amuse—Criticism and censorship 462
CHAPTER II
Le Corsaire trial—The Duc d'Orléans as caricaturist—The Tribune trial—The right of association established by jury—Statistics of the political sentences under the Restoration—Le Pré-aux-Clercs 500
CHAPTER III
Victor Jacquemont 505
CHAPTER IV
George Sand 513
CHAPTER V
Eugène Sue—His family, birth, godfather and godmother— His education—Dr. Sue's wine-cellar—Choir of botanists —Committee of chemistry—Dinner on the grass—Eugène Sue sets out for Spain—His return—Ferdinand Langlé's room—Captain Gauthier 520
CHAPTER VI
Eugène Sue is ambitious enough to have a groom, horse and trap—He does business with the maison Ermingot,[Pg xii] Godefroi et Cie which permits him to gratify that fancy—Triumph at the Champs-Élysées—A vexing encounter—Desforges and Eugène Sue separate—Desforges starts Le Kaléidoscope at Bordeaux—Ferdinand Langlé starts La Nouveauté at Paris—César and the negro Zoyo—Dossion and his dog 531
CHAPTER VII
Eugène Sue's début in journalism—L'Homme-Mouche—The merino sheep—Eugène Sue in the Navy—He takes part in the battle of Navarino—He furnishes a house—The last folly of youth—Another Fils de l'Homme—Bossange and Desforges 540
BOOK VIII
CHAPTER I
The political duels 547
CHAPTER II
Lucrèce Borgia—Discouragement—First conception of the Historical Romances 572
CHAPTER III
Condition of the Théâtre-Français in 1832 and 1833—Causes which had led to our emigration from the Théatre-Français—Reflections concerning the education of dramatic artists 577
CHAPTER IV
Talma—Mademoiselle Mars—The Conservatoire—Macready—Young —Kean—Miss Smithson—Mrs. Siddons—Miss Faucit—Shakespeare —The limits to dramatic art in France 582
APPENDIX 587
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE 636
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THE WOLF-LEADER
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WITH THREE COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS BY
FRANK ADAMS
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
CHAPTER PAGE
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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