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Alexandre Dumas. Monsieur de Chauvelin's Will
Monsieur de Chauvelin's Will
Table of Contents
I. The House in the Rue de Vaugirard
CHAPTER I
II. A Pastel by Latour
CHAPTER II
III. The Letter
CHAPTER III
IV. The King's Chirurgeon
CHAPTER IV
V. The King Rises
CHAPTER V
VI. Madame du Barry's Mirror
CHAPTER VI
VII. Monk, Preceptor and Intendant
CHAPTER VII
VIII. 'Like Dicers' Oaths'
CHAPTER VIII
IX. Venus and Psyche
CHAPTER IX
X. At the King's Card-Table
CHAPTER X
XI. The Apparition
CHAPTER XI
XII. Death of Louis xv
CHAPTER XII
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Alexandre Dumas
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Well, it is the same with my theatrical house of cards as with the speech or the sermon I spoke of just now. My house of cards is hardly ever the same as the author's; hence, as I have made a reality out of my dream, so the reality seems a dream to me,—one which I follow out, ever on the alert to raise objections. "But that's not right. Monsieur Arthur; that's not the way, Mademoiselle Honorine; you go too fast, or you go too slow; you turn to the right when you ought to turn to the left; you say yes when you should say no. Upon my word, what mistakes; it's past all bearing!"
As for historical plays the case is still worse. Once I know the title, of course I construct my own piece, the materials of which I bring all ready made with me; then, equally of course, seeing it is constructed with all my characteristic faults, to wit superabundance of detail, stiffness of characterisation, double, treble, quadruple intrigue, it is very, very seldom my play bears the smallest resemblance to the one they are acting on the boards. All this simply makes a first night, which is a pleasure to most people, a veritable torture to me.
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