The Last Vendée

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Dumas Alexandre. The Last Vendée

THE LAST VENDÉE; OR, THE SHE-WOLVES OF MACHECOUL. VOLUME I

I. CHARETTE'S AIDE-DE-CAMP

II. THE GRATITUDE OF KINGS

III. THE TWINS

IV. HOW JEAN OULLIER, COMING TO SEE THE MARQUIS FOR AN HOUR, WOULD BE THERE STILL IF THEY HAD NOT BOTH BEEN IN THEIR GRAVE THESE TEN YEARS

V. A LITTER OF WOLVES

VI. THE WOUNDED HARE

VII. MONSIEUR MICHEL

VIII. THE BARONNE DE LA LOGERIE

IX. GALON-D'OR AND ALLÉGRO

X. IN WHICH THINGS DO NOT HAPPEN PRECISELY AS BARON MICHEL DREAMED THEY WOULD

XI. THE FOSTER-FATHER

XII. NOBLESSE OBLIGE

XIII. A DISTANT COUSIN

XIV. PETIT-PIERRE

XV. AN UNSEASONABLE HOUR

XVI. COURTIN'S DIPLOMACY

XVII. THE TAVERN OF AUBIN COURTE-JOIE

XVIII. THE MAN FROM LA LOGERIE

XIX. THE FAIR AT MONTAIGU

XX. THE OUTBREAK

XXI. JEAN OULLIER'S RESOURCES

XXII. FETCH! PATAUD, FETCH!

XXIII. TO WHOM THE COTTAGE BELONGED

XXIV. HOW MARIANNE PICAUT MOURNED HER HUSBAND

XXV. IN WHICH LOVE LENDS POLITICAL OPINIONS TO THOSE WHO HAVE NONE

XXVI. THE SPRINGS OF BAUGÉ

XXVII. THE GUESTS AT SOUDAY

XXVIII. IN WHICH THE MARQUIS DE SOUDAY BITTERLY REGRETS THAT PETIT-PIERRE IS NOT A GENTLEMAN

XXIX. THE VENDÉANS OF 1832

XXX. THE WARNING

XXXI. MY OLD CRONY LORIOT

XXXII. THE GENERAL EATS A SUPPER WHICH HAD NOT BEEN PREPARED FOR HIM

XXXIII. IN WHICH MAÎTRE LORIOT'S CURIOSITY IS NOT EXACTLY SATISFIED

XXXIV. THE TOWER CHAMBER

XXXV. WHICH ENDS QUITE OTHERWISE THAN AS MARY EXPECTED

XXXVI. BLUE AND WHITE

XXXVII. WHICH SHOWS THAT IT IS NOT FOR FLIES ONLY THAT SPIDERS' WEBS ARE DANGEROUS

XXXVIII. IN WHICH THE DAINTIEST FOOT OF FRANCE AND OF NAVARRE FINDS THAT CINDERELLA'S SLIPPER DOES NOT FIT IT AS WELL AS SEVEN-LEAGUE BOOTS

XXXIX. PETIT-PIERRE MAKES THE BEST MEAL HE EVER MADE IN HIS LIFE

XL. EQUALITY IN DEATH

XLI. THE SEARCH

XLII. IN WHICH JEAN OULLIER, SPEAKS HIS MIND ABOUT YOUNG BARON MICHEL

XLIII. BARON MICHEL BECOMES BERTHA's AIDE-DE-CAMP

XLIV. MAÎTRE JACQUES AND HIS RABBITS

XLV. THE DANGER OF MEETING BAD COMPANY IN THE WOODS

XLVI. MAÎTRE JACQUES PROCEEDS TO KEEP THE OATH HE MADE TO AUBIN COURTE-JOIE

THE LAST VENDÉE; OR, THE SHE-WOLVES OF MACHECOUL. VOLUME II

I. IN WHICH IT APPEARS THAT ALL JEWS ARE NOT FROM JERUSALEM, NOR ALL TURKS FROM TUNIS

II. MAÎTRE MARC

III. HOW PERSONS TRAVELLED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE LOWER LOIRE IN MAY, 1832

IV. A LITTLE HISTORY DOES NO HARM

V. PETIT-PIERRE RESOLVES ON KEEPING A BRAVE HEART AGAINST MISFORTUNE

VI. HOW JEAN OULLIER PROVED THAT WHEN THE WINE IS DRAWN IT IS BEST TO DRINK IT

VII. HEREIN IS EXPLAINED HOW AND WHY BARON MICHEL DECIDED TO GO TO NANTES

VIII. THE SHEEP, RETURNING TO THE FOLD, TUMBLES INTO A PIT-FALL

IX. TRIGAUD PROVES THAT IF HE HAD BEEN HERCULES, HE WOULD PROBABLY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED TWENTY-FOUR LABORS INSTEAD OF TWELVE

X. GIVING THE SLIP

XI. MARY IS VICTORIOUS AFTER THE MANNER OF PYRRHUS

XII. BARON MICHEL FINDS AN OAK INSTEAD OF A REED ON WHICH TO LEAN

XIII. THE LAST KNIGHTS OF ROYALTY

XIV. JEAN OULLIER LIES FOR THE GOOD OF THE CAUSE

XV. JAILER AND PRISONER ESCAPE TOGETHER

XVI. THE BATTLEFIELD

XVII. AFTER THE FIGHT

XVIII. THE CHÂTEAU DE LA PÉNISSIÈRE

XIX. THE MOOR OF BOUAIMÉ

XX. THE FIRM OF AUBIN COURTE-JOIE AND CO. DOES HONOR TO ITS PARTNERSHIP

XXI. IN WHICH SUCCOR COMES FROM AN UNEXPECTED QUARTER

XXII. ON THE HIGHWAY

XXIII. WHAT BECAME OF JEAN OULLIER

XXIV. MAÎTRE COURTIN'S BATTERIES

XXV. MADAME LA BARONNE DE LA LOGERIE, THINKING TO SERVE HER SON'S INTERESTS, SERVES THOSE OF PETIT-PIERRE

XXVI. MARCHES AND COUNTER-MARCHES

XXVII. MICHEL'S LOVE AFFAIRS SEEM TO BE TAKING A HAPPIER TURN

XXVIII. SHOWING HOW THERE MAY BE FISHERMEN AND FISHERMKN

XXIX. INTERROGATORIES AND CONFRONTINGS

XXX. WE AGAIN MEET THE GENERAL, AND FIND HE IS NOT CHANGED

XXXI. COURTIN MEETS WITH ANOTHER DISAPPOINTMENT

XXXII. THE MARQUIS DE SOUDAY DRAGS FOR OYSTERS AND BRINGS UP PICAUT

XXXIII. THAT WHICH HAPPENED IN TWO DWELLINGS

XXXIV. COURTIN FINGERS AT LAST HIS FIFTY THOUSAND FRANCS

XXXV. THE TAVERN OF THE GRAND SAINT-JACQUES

XXXVI. JUDAS AND JUDAS

XXXVII. AN EYE FOR AN EYE, AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH

XXXVIII. THE RED-BREECHES

XXXIX. A WOUNDED SOUL

XL. THE CHIMNEY-BACK

XLI. THREE BROKEN HEARTS

XLII. GOD'S EXECUTIONER

XLIII. SHOWS THAT A MAN WITH FIFTY THOUSAND FRANCS ABOUT HIM MAY BE MUCH EMBARRASSED

EPILOGUE

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If you ever chanced, dear reader, to go from Nantes to Bourgneuf you must, before reaching Saint-Philbert, have skirted the southern corner of the lake of Grand-Lieu, and then, continuing your way, you arrived, at the end of one hour or two hours, according to whether you were on foot or in a carriage, at the first trees of the forest of Machecoul.

There, to left of the road, among a fine clump of trees belonging, apparently, to the forest from which it is separated only by the main road, you must have seen the sharp points of two slender turrets and the gray roof of a little castle hidden among the foliage.

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"Caught me!"

"Yes, yes, yes! And I don't blame you either; whatever else these young ladies may be, I must say they are pretty. Come, you needn't blush that way; you are not just out of a seminary; you are neither a priest, nor a deacon, nor a vicar; you are a handsome lad of twenty. Go ahead, Monsieur Michel; they'll have very poor taste if they don't like you when you like them."

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