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Title: The Forty-Five Guardsmen

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Release Date: October 5, 2004 [EBook #13626]

Language: English

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THE WORKS OF ALEXANDRE DUMAS

THE FORTY-FIVE GUARDSMEN
A SEQUEL TO "CHICOT, THE JESTER"

_Copiously Illustrated with elegant Pen and Ink and Wood Engravings,
specially drawn for this edition by eminent French and American Artists_

NEW YORK
PETER FENELON COLLIER, PUBLISHER
1893

[Illustration: Briquet at the window.]

CONTENTS

THE FORTY-FIVE GUARDSMEN

CHAPTER

1. The Porte St. Antoine
2. What passed outside the Porte St. Antoine
3. The Examination
4. His Majesty Henri the Third
5. The Execution
6. The Brothers
7. "The Sword of the Brave Chevalier"
8. The Gascon
9. M. de Loignac
10. The Purchase of Cuirasses
11. Still the League
12. The Chamber of his Majesty Henri III.
13. The Dormitory
14. The Shade of Chicot
15. The Difficulty of finding a good Ambassador
16. The Serenade
17. Chicot's Purse
18. The Priory of the Jacobins
19. The two Friends
20. The Breakfast
21. Brother Borromee
22. The Lesson
23. The Penitent
24. The Ambush
25. The Guises
26. The Louvre
27. The Revelation
28. Two Friends
29. St. Maline
30. De Loignac's Interview with the Forty-Five
31. The Bourgeois of Paris
32. Brother Borromee
33. Chicot, Latinist
34. The four Winds
35. How Chicot continued his Journey, and what happened to him
36. The third Day of the Journey
37. Ernanton de Carmainges
38. The Stable-Yard
39. The Seven Sins of Magdalen
40. Bel-Esbat
41. The Letter of M. de Mayenne
42. How Dom Gorenflot blessed the King as he passed before the Priory of
the Jacobins
43. How Chicot blessed King Louis II. for having invented Posting, and
resolved to profit by it
44. How the King of Navarre guesses that "Turennius" means Turenne, and
"Margota" Margot
45. The Avenue three thousand Feet long
46. Marguerite's Room
47. The Explanation
48. The Spanish