The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon

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Alexandre Dumas. The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon

ALEXANDRE DUMAS. The Last Cavalier

CONTENTS

I Josephine’s Debts

II How the Free City of Hamburg Paid Josephine’s Debts

III The Companions of Jehu

IV The Son of the Miller of La Guerche

V The Mousetrap

VI The Combat of the One Hundred

VII Blues and Whites

VIII The Meeting

IX Two Companions at Arms

X Two Young Women Put Their Heads Together

XI Madame de Permon’s Ball

XII The Queen’s Minuet

XIII The Three Sainte-Hermines

XIV Léon de Sainte-Hermine

XV Charles de Sainte-Hermine [I]

XVI Mademoiselle de Fargas

XVII The Ceyzériat Caves

XVIII Charles de Sainte-Hermine [2]

XIX The End of Hector’s Story

XX Fouché

XXI In Which Fouché Works to Return to the Ministry of Police, Which He Has Not Yet Left

XXII In Which Mademoiselle de Beauharnais Becomes the Wife of a King without a Throne and Mademoiselle de Sourdis the Widow of a Living Husband

XXIII The Burning Brigades

XXIV Counterorders

XXV The Duc d’Enghien [I]

XXVI In the Vernon Forest

XXVII The Bomb

XXVIII The Real Perpetrators

XXIX King Louis of Parma

XXX Jupiter on Mount Olympus

XXXI War

XXXII Citizen Régnier’s Police and Citizen Fouché’s Police

XXXIII Empty-Handed

XXXIV The Revelations of a Man Who Hanged Himself

XXXV The Arrests

XXXVI George

XXXVII The Duc d’Enghien [2]

XXXVIII Chateaubriand

XXXIX The Embassy in Rome

XL Resolve

XLI Via Dolorosa

XLII Suicide

XLIII The Trial

XLIV In the Temple

XLV In the Courtroom

XLVI The Sentencing

XLVII The Execution

XLVIII After Three Years in Prison

XLIX Saint-Malo

L Madame Leroux’s Inn

LI The Fake English Ship

LII Surcouf

LIII The Officers on the Revenant

LIV Getting Under Way

LV Tenerife

LVI Crossing the Line

LVII The Slave Ship

LVIII How the American Captain Got Forty-Five Thousand Francs instead of the Five Thousand He Was Asking For

LIX Île de France

LX On Land

LXI The Return [I]

LXII The New York Racer

LXIII The Guardian

LXIV Malay Pirates

LXV Arrival

LXVI Pegu

LXVII The Trip

LXVIII The Emperor Snake

LXIX Brigands

LXX The Steward’s Family

LXXI The Garden of Eden

LXXII The Colony

LXXIII The Vicomte de Sainte-Hermine Is Buried

LXXIV Tigers and Elephants

LXXV Jane’s Illness

LXXVI Delayed Departure

LXXVII Indian Nights

LXXVIII Preparations for a Wedding

LXXIX The Wedding

LXXX Eurydice

LXXXI Return to Pegu

LXXXII Two Captures

LXXXIII Return to Chien-de-Plomb

LXXXIV A Visit to the Governor

LXXXV A Collection for the Poor

LXXXVI Departure

LXXXVII What Was Happening in Europe

LXXXVIII Emma Lyonna

LXXXIX In Which Napoleon Sees That Sometimes It Is More Difficult to Control Men Than Fortune

XC The Port of Cadiz

XCI The Little Bird

XCII Trafalgar

XCIII Disaster

XCIV The Storm

XCV Escape

XCVI At Sea

XCVII Monsieur Fouché’s Advice

XCVIII A Relay Station in Rome

XCIX The Appian Way

C What Was Happening on the Appian Way Fifty Years before Christ

CI An Archeological Conversation between a Navy Lieutenant and a Captain of Hussars

CII In Which the Reader Will Guess the Name of One of the Two Travelers and Learn the Name of the Other

CIII The Pontine Marshes

CIV Fra Diavolo

CV Pursuit

CVI Major Hugo

CVII At Bay

CVIII The Gallows

CIX Christophe Saliceti, Minister of Police and Minister of War

CX King Joseph

CXI Il Bizzarro

CXII In Which the Two Young Men Part Ways, One to Return to Service under Murat, and the Other to Request Service under Reynier

CXIII General Reynier

CXIV In Which René Sees that Saliceti Was Not Mistaken

CXV The Village of Parenti

CXVI The Iron Cage

CXVII In Which René Comes Upon Il Bizzarro’s Trail When He Least Expects It

CXVIII In Pursuit of Bandits

CXIX The Duchess’s Hand

APPENDIX

I His Imperial Highness, Viceroy Eugene-Napoleon

II At Lunch

III Preparations

A NOTE TO THE READER

A NOTE ABOUT PREPARING THE TEXT

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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Being the Adventures of COUNT SAINTE-HERMINE in the Age of Napoleon

Translated by LAUREN YODER

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LXXXV - A Collection for the Poor

LXXXVI - Departure

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