In Monsieur de Chauvelin's Will we are introduced to several of the historical characters who play parts of some prominence in the first of the so-called Marie-Antoinette Romances, the Memoirs of a Physician, and to one - the Duc de Richelieu - who had been a leading figure at court and in society from the very beginning of the century, and whom the author has introduced, as a young man, in The Regent's Daughter, and, a few years later, in Olympe de Cleves, lending a willing hand in the work of corrupting the young Louis XV, and launching him upon the path which he followed so consistently to...

The weird and fanciful episode of which Dumas has made Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann the hero is in Hoffmann's own peculiar vein, and might well have been a conceit of the gifted German himself, "who is chiefly celebrated," says Dr. Hedge,"for his successful use of the magic and demoniac element in fiction." Alexandre Dumas (also known as Dumas pere) (1802-1870) was one of the most famous French writers of the 19th century. Dumas is best known for the historical novels The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both written within the space of two years, 1844-45, and which belong to...

Set 1559, during the brief reign of Francois II, the horoscope of the title is a triple prophecy that predicts the death by assassination of the three most powerful men in France at the time: the Duc de Guise, the Marechal de Saint-Andre, and the Constable de Montmorency."

The Courtship of Josephine and Napoleon The Drowner The Blood Union Lady Hamilton and Admiral Nelson The Honor of Von Bulow Gaetano The Gorger The Provisional Government Cannibals Confession of the District Attorney Vindication Mme. Dubarry Storming the Bastile Aurora Branded The Tragedy of Nantes Cripple and Giant Louis XIII Death of Mirabeau Anne of Austria A Black Pearl

CONTENTS The Princess is Born The Royal Banquet Ehu Dappleblock Appears The Fate of the Princess Concerning the Krakatuk Ehu and the Astronomer Set Out Ehu Discovers the Nut Nikky Appears The Krakatuk Tournament Nikky Cracks the Nut What Happened Afterwards The Princess Again in Trouble The Disastrous Banquet Ehu Tries Again The Search for the Bangalu Ehu Contrives The Combat Postscript

A fascinating and shocking non-fiction work on the scandals and atrocities committed in the royal chambers of the Russian Imperial court.Alexandre Dumas (also known as Dumas phre) (1802-1870) was one of the most famous French writers of the 19th century. Dumas is best known for the historical novels The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both written within the space of two years, 1844-45, and which belong to the foundation works of popular culture. Dumas' works are fast-paced adventure tales that blend history and fiction.

On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, - the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pushing...