| PROLOGUE |
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| THE PRUSSIANS ON THE RHINE |
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I. | From the Hôtel de la Poste to the Hôtel de la Lanterne | 7 |
II. | The Citizeness Teutch | 15 |
III. | Euloge Schneider | 23 |
IV. | Eugene de Beauharnais | 31 |
V. | Mademoiselle de Brumpt | 38 |
VI. | Master Nicholas | 49 |
VII. | Filial Love, or the Wooden Leg | 54 |
VIII. | The Provocation | 61 |
IX. | In which Charles is Arrested | 67 |
X. | Schneider's Journey | 73 |
XI. | The Marriage Proposal | 76 |
XII. | Saint-Just | 80 |
XIII. | The Wedding of Euloge Schneider | 87 |
XIV. | Wishes | 92 |
XV. | The Count de Sainte-Hermine | 99 |
XVI. | The Foraging Cap | 106 |
XVII. | Pichegru | 113 |
XVIII. | Charles's Reception | 119 |
XIX. | The Spy | 125 |
XX. | The Dying Man's Prophecy | 132 |
XXI. | The Night Before the Battle | 139 |
XXII. | The Battle | 144 |
XXIII. | After the Battle | 150 |
XXIV. | Citizen Fenouillot, Commercial Traveller for Champagne | 155 |
XXV. | Chasseur Falou and Corporal Faraud | 161 |
XXVI. | The Prince's Envoy | 167 |
XXVII. | Pichegru's Reply | 173 |
XXVIII. | The Drum-Head Marriage | 181 |
XXIX. | The Prussian Artillery for Six Hundred Francs | 190 |
XXX. | The Organ | 196 |
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XXXI. | In which the Organ-Grinder's Plan Begins to Develop | 202 |
XXXII. | The Toast | 207 |
XXXIII. | The Order of the Day | 212 |
XXXIV. | A Chapter which is but One with the Following Chapter | 219 |
XXXV. | In which Abatucci Fulfils the Mission that he has Received from his General, and Charles that which he Received from God | 224 |
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| THE THIRTEENTH VENDÉMIAIRE |
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I. | A Bird's-Eye View | 230 |
II. | A Glimpse of Paris—The Incroyables | 234 |
III. | The Merveilleuses | 238 |
IV. | The Sections | 242 |
V. | The President of the Section le Peletier | 247 |
VI. | Three Leaders | 253 |
VII. | General Roundhead and the Chief of the Companions of Jehu | 256 |
VIII. | The Man in the Green Coat | 261 |
IX. | An Incroyable and a Merveilleuse | 265 |
X. | Two Portraits | 270 |
XI. | Aspasia's Toilet | 275 |
XII. | For which Voltaire and Rousseau are to Blame | 278 |
XIII. | The Eleventh Vendémiaire | 282 |
XIV. | The Twelfth Vendémiaire | 286 |
XV. | The Night of the 12th and the 13th Vendémiaire | 290 |
XVI. | The Salon of Madame de Staël, the Swedish Ambassadress | 293 |
XVII. | The Hotel of the Rights of Man | 306 |
XVIII. | Citizen Bonaparte | 310 |
XIX. | Citizen Garat | 314 |
XX. | The Outposts | 320 |
XXI. | The Steps of Saint-Roch | 325 |
XXII. | The Rout | 329 |
XXIII. | The Victory | 333 |
XXIV. | The Sword of the Vicomte de Beauharnais | 336 |
XXV. | The Map of Marengo | 340 |
XXVI. | Marie-Rose-Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, Vicomtesse Beauharnais | 345 |
XXVII. | Where an Angel Steps a Miracle is Performed | 349 |
XXVIII. | The Sibyl | 354 |
XXIX. | Fortune-Telling | 360 |
XXX. | The Pretended Incroyable | 365 |
XXXI. | "Macbeth, thou Shalt be King!" | 370 |
XXXII. | The Man of the Future | 376 |
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| THE EIGHTEENTH FRUCTIDOR |
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I. | A Glance at the Provinces | 383 |
II. | The Traveller | 388 |
III. | The Chartreuse of Seillon | 393 |
IV. | The Traitor | 398 |
V. | The Judgment | 402 |
VI. | Diane of Fargas | 407 |
VII. | What was Talked About for More than Three Months in the Little Town of Nantua | 412 |
VIII. | A New Companion is Received into the Society of Jehu under the Name of Alcibiades | 417 |
IX. | The Comte de Fargas | 422 |
X. | The Trouillasse Tower | 426 |
XI. | Brother and Sister | 431 |
XII. | In which the Reader will Meet some Old Acquaintances | 436 |
XIII. | Citizens and Messieurs | 441 |
XIV. | The Cause of Citizen-General Bonaparte's Ill-Humor | 446 |
XV. | Augereau | 452 |
XVI. | The Citizen-Directors | 458 |
XVII. | Mademoiselle de Sainte-Amour's Sick-Headache | 465 |
XVIII. | The Mission of Mademoiselle de Fargas | 470 |
XIX. | The Travellers | 476 |
XX. | "The Best of Friends Must Part" | 482 |
XXI. | Citizen François Goulin | 487 |
XXII. | Colonel Hulot | 492 |
XXIII. | The Battle | 497 |
XXIV. | Portia | 502 |
XXV. | Cadoudal's Idea | 507 |
XXVI. | The Road to the Scaffold | 513 |
XXVII. | The Execution | 518 |
XXVIII. | The Seventh Fructidor | 524 |
XXIX. | Jean-Victor Moreau | 530 |
XXX. | The Eighteenth Fructidor | 536 |
XXXI. | The Temple | 542 |
XXXII. | The Exiles | 548 |
XXXIII. | The Journey | 553 |
XXXIV. | The Embarkation | 559 |
XXXV. | Farewell, France! | 566 |
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| THE EIGHTH CRUSADE |
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I. | Saint-Jean-d'Acre | 572 |
II. | The Prisoners | 577 |
III. | The Carnage | 583 |
IV. | From Ancient Days to Our Own | 588 |
V. | Sidney Smith | 594 |
VI. | Ptolemais | 601 |
VII. | The Scouts | 607 |
VIII. | The Beautiful Daughters of Nazareth | 613 |
IX. | The Battle of Nazareth | 619 |
X. | Mount Tabor | 624 |
XI. | The Bullet Merchant | 631 |
XII. | How Citizen Pierre-Claude Faraud was made a Sub-Lieutenant | 635 |
XIII. | The Last Assault | 640 |
XIV. | The Last Bulletin | 644 |
XV. | Vanished Dreams | 648 |
XVI. | The Retreat | 652 |
XVII. | Wherein we see that Bonaparte's Presentiments did not Deceive Him | 657 |
XVIII. | Aboukir | 662 |
XIX. | Departure | 668 |