Prologue
1723 Dung-heap Meals
1724 School
1728 Hanging the Dog
What the Chinese eat
The Thorn Bush
1730 Military Academy
1734 The Injured Wolf
Patronage
Inventing Old Recipes
1736 The Hunt
1736 Charlot Injured
The Upturned Boat
The King’s Mistress
1738 Marriage
1742 The Barbary Goat
1748 Charlot Marries
1757 The Lover
1758 Responsibilities
1758 Hope
1762 Master of the Menagerie
1763 Virginie
1763 Funeral
1768 Mission to Corsica
The Fall
Supper with Candles
Leaving Versailles
Arrest
1769 Freedom
1770 The Return
1771 The Proposal
1771 Elopement
1777 Ben Franklin Visits
1784 The Loris
1790 Revolution
Barbarians at the Gate
Endnotes
Acknowledgements
