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Overview
Alexandre Dumas was born in Villes-Cotterets. His grandfather was a French nobleman, who had settled in Santo Domingo; his paternal grandmother, Marie-Cessette, was an Afro-Caribbean, who had been a black slave in the then French colony of Haiti. Dumas's father was a general in Napoleon's army, who had fallen out of favor. After his death in 1806 the family lived in poverty. Dumas worked as a notary's clerk and went in 1823 to Paris to find work. Due to his elegant handwriting he secured a position with the Duc d'Orleans-later King Louis Philippe. He also found his place in theater and as a publisher of some obscure magazines. An illegitimate son called Alexandre Dumas fils, whose mother, Marie-Catherine Labay, was a dressmaker, was born in 1824. Dumas fils gained fame with his novel The Lady of the Camillas, in which a fallen girl, the heroine, gives up her lover rather than see him become a social outcast.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781479260669 |
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Publisher: | CreateSpace Publishing |
Publication date: | 09/06/2012 |
Pages: | 752 |
Product dimensions: | 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.50(d) |
About the Author
One of the most widely read French authors famed for his historical fiction of high adventure, Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) wrote more than a hundred plays and novels, including the famous Three Musketeers trilogy, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron Mask. His books have been translated into more than 100 languages.
Table of Contents
I. | M. De Guise's Latin | 1 |
II. | Henry of Navarre and Marguerite | 13 |
III. | The Poet-King | 25 |
IV. | The Evening of the 24th of August, 1572 | 36 |
V. | Of the Louvre in Particular, and of Virtue in General | 44 |
VI. | The Debt Paid | 51 |
VII. | The Night of the 24th of August, 1572 | 62 |
VIII. | The Victims | 76 |
IX. | The Murderers | 86 |
X. | Death, Mass, or the Bastille | 99 |
XI. | The Hawthorn of the Cemetery of the Innocents | 112 |
XII. | Mutual Confidence | 122 |
XIII. | How there are Keys that Open Doors they are not Meant for | 129 |
XIV. | Catherine and Marguerite | 139 |
XV. | What Woman Wills, Heaven Wills also | 149 |
XVI. | The Body of a Dead Enemy Always Smells Sweet | 163 |
XVII. | The Rival of Maitre Ambroise Pare | 173 |
XVIII. | The Visit | 179 |
XIX. | The Abode of Maitre Rene, Perfumer to the Queen-Mother | 183 |
XX. | The Black Hens | 194 |
XXI. | Madame de Sauve's Chamber | 201 |
XXII. | "Sire, you will be King!" | 210 |
XXIII. | A New Convert | 215 |
XXIV. | The Rue Tizon and the Rue Cloche-Percee | 227 |
XXV. | Cherry Mantle | 237 |
XXVI. | Marguerite | 245 |
XXVII. | The Hand of Providence | 250 |
XXVIII. | The Letter from Rome | 256 |
XXIX. | The Departure | 260 |
XXX. | Maurevel | 265 |
XXXI. | The Boar-Hunt | 269 |
XXXII. | Fraternity | 276 |
XXXIII. | The Gratitude of King Charles the Ninth | 283 |
XXXIV. | Man Proposes, but God Disposes | 288 |
XXXV. | The Two Kings | 297 |
XXXVI. | Marie Touchet | 303 |
XXXVII. | The Return to the Louvre | 307 |
XXXVIII. | Interrogatories | 316 |
XXXIX. | Projects of Vengeance | 323 |
XL. | The Atrides | 333 |
XLI. | The Horoscope | 343 |
XLII. | Mutual Confidences | 349 |
XLIII. | The Ambassadors | 358 |
XLIV. | Orestes and Pylades | 363 |
XLV. | Orthon | 370 |
XLVI. | The Hostelry of "La Belle Etoile" | 382 |
XLVII. | De Mouy de Saint-Phale | 389 |
XLVIII. | Two Heads for One Crown | 396 |
XLIX. | The Book of Venerie | 405 |
L. | The Hawking Party | 411 |
LI. | The Pavilion of Francois the First | 417 |
LII. | The Examinations | 422 |
LIII. | Actaeon | 432 |
LIV. | Vincennes | 439 |
LV. | The Figure of Wax | 444 |
LVI. | The Invisible Bucklers | 452 |
LVII. | The Trial | 457 |
LVIII. | The Torture of the Boot | 466 |
LIX. | The Chapel | 472 |
LX. | The Place Saint-Jean-en-Greve | 477 |
LXI. | The Headman's Tower | 482 |
LXII. | The Sweat of Blood | 490 |
LXIII. | The Platform of the Donjon at Vincennes | 494 |
LXIV. | The Regency | 497 |
LXV. | The King is Dead! God Save the King! | 500 |
LXVI. | Epilogue | 504 |