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  TAKING THE BASTILE

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  PRICE, 25 CENTS. No. 79. =THE SUNSET SERIES.= By Subscription, per Year, Nine Dollars. February 12, 1894. Entered at the New York Post Office as second-class matter.

  Copyright 1891, by J. S. OGILVIE.

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  Taking The Bastile.

  by

  ALEX. DUMAS.

  New York:J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company,57 Rose Street.

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  TAKING THE BASTILE;

  Or, Pitou The Peasant.

  A Historical Story of the Great French Revolution.

  by

  ALEX. DUMAS.

  Author of"The Three Musketeers," "Balsamo the Magician," "Monte Cristo,""The Mesmerist's Victim," "The Queen's Necklace,""Chicot the Jester," etc.

  New and Original Translation from the Latest Paris Edition.By Henry Llewellyn Williams.

  New York:J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company,57 Rose Street.

  Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1892, by A.E.Smith &Co, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

  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.