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  THE WORKS OF ALEXANDRE DUMAS

  THE REGENT'S DAUGHTER

  A SEQUEL TO "THE CONSPIRATORS"

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

  COMPLETE IN NINE VOLUMES

  VOLUME SIX

  NEW YORKPETER FENELON COLLIER, PUBLISHER1893

  THE REGENT'S DAUGHTER.

  1. An Abbess of the Eighteenth Century 431

  2. Decidedly the Family begins to settle down 435

  3. What passed three Nights later at eight hundred 438 Leagues from the Palais Royal

  4. Showing how Chance arranges some Matters better 442 than Providence

  5. The Journey 444

  6. A Room in the Hotel at Rambouillet 447

  7. A Servant in the Royal Livery--Monseigneur le 449 Duc d'Orleans

  8. The Utility of a Seal 452

  9. The Visit 455

  10. In which Dubois proves that his Police was 459 better organized at an Expense of three hundred thousand Francs than the general Police for three Millions

  11. Rambouillet again 461

  12. Captain la Jonquiere 463

  13. Monsieur Moutonnet, Draper at St. Germain-en-Laye 466

  14. Trust to Signs of Gratitude 468

  15. His Excellency the Duc d'Orleans 471

  16. "Monseigneur, we are Bretons" 474

  17. Monsieur Andre 475

  18. The Faubourg Saint Antoine 479

  19. The Artist and the Politician 481

  20. Blood reveals itself 484

  21. What passed in the Rue du Bac while waiting for 488 Gaston

  22. In Bretagne 502

  23. The Sorceress of Savernay 505

  24. The Arrest 509

  25. The Bastille 512

  26. How Life passed in the Bastille while waiting 516 for Death

  27. How the Night passed in the Bastille while 519 waiting for the Day

  28. A Companion in the Bastille 522

  29. The Sentence 527

  30. The Family Feud 531

  31. State Affairs and Family Affairs 538

  32. Showing that we must not always judge Others 543 by Ourselves

  33. Monceaux 547

  34. The Pardon 550

  35. The last Interview 553

  36. Nantes 555

  37. The Tragedy of Nantes 560

  38. The End 564

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

  13.--Captain la Jonquiere.

  14.--Philip V.

  15.--Gaston rose hastily, and met D'Argenson with a law officer.

  16.--Abbe Brigaud.

  17.--Mademoiselle de Launay.

  18.--The Regent.