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  THE WORKS OF ALEXANDRE DUMAS

  THE FORTY-FIVE GUARDSMENA 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 YORKPETER FENELON COLLIER, PUBLISHER1893

  Briquet at the window.]

  CONTENTS

  THE FORTY-FIVE GUARDSMEN

  CHAPTER

  1. The Porte St. Antoine2. What passed outside the Porte St. Antoine3. The Examination4. His Majesty Henri the Third5. The Execution6. The Brothers7. "The Sword of the Brave Chevalier"8. The Gascon9. M. de Loignac10. The Purchase of Cuirasses11. Still the League12. The Chamber of his Majesty Henri III.13. The Dormitory14. The Shade of Chicot15. The Difficulty of finding a good Ambassador16. The Serenade17. Chicot's Purse18. The Priory of the Jacobins19. The two Friends20. The Breakfast21. Brother Borromee22. The Lesson23. The Penitent24. The Ambush25. The Guises26. The Louvre27. The Revelation28. Two Friends29. St. Maline30. De Loignac's Interview with the Forty-Five31. The Bourgeois of Paris32. Brother Borromee33. Chicot, Latinist34. The four Winds35. How Chicot continued his Journey, and what happened to him36. The third Day of the Journey37. Ernanton de Carmainges38. The Stable-Yard39. The Seven Sins of Magdalen40. Bel-Esbat41. The Letter of M. de Mayenne42. How Dom Gorenflot blessed the King as he passed before the Priory of the Jacobins43. How Chicot blessed King Louis II. for having invented Posting, and resolved to profit by it44. How the King of Navarre guesses that "Turennius" means Turenne, and "Margota" Margot45. The Avenue three thousand Feet long46. Marguerite's Room47. The Explanation48. The Spanish Ambassador49. The Poor of Henri of Navarre50. The true Mistress of the King of Navarre51. Chicot's Astonishment at finding himself so popular in Nerac52. How they hunted the Wolf in Navarre53. How Henri of Navarre behaved in Battle54. What was passing at the Louvre about the Time Chicot entered Nerac55. Red Plume and White Plume56. The Door opens57. How a great Lady loved in the Year 158658. How St. Maline entered into the Turret and what followed59. What was passing in the mysterious House60. The Laboratory61. What Monsieur Francois, Duc d'Anjou, Duc de Brabant and Comte de Flanders, was doing in Flanders62. Preparations for Battle63. Monseigneur64. Monseigneur65. French and Flemings66. The Travelers67. Explanation68. The Water69. Flight70. Transfiguration71. The two Brothers72. The Expedition73. Paul-Emile74. One of the Souvenirs of the Duc d'Anjou75. How Aurilly executed the Commission of the Duc d'Anjou76. The Journey77. How King Henri III. did not invite Grillon to Breakfast, and how Chicot invited himself78. How, after receiving News from the South, Henri received News from the North79. The two Companions80. The Corne d'Abondance81. What happened in the little Room82. The Husband and the Lover83. Showing how Chicot began to understand the Purport of Monsieur de Guise's Letter84. Le Cardinal de Joyeuse85. News from Aurilly86. Doubt87. Certainty88. Fatality89. Les Hospitalieres90. His Highness Monseigneur le Duc de Guise

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

  1.--_Frontispiece_.--Briquet at the window.2.--"His face pleases me, and he has white hands and a well-kept beard."3.--Chicot, on rising, found himself face to face with a soldier.4.--"An ax!" cried Henri, and with a vigorous arm he struck down wood and iron.5.--"I said you were a traitor, and as a traitor you shall die."6.--The prince was cold, stiff, and perfectly inanimate.