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Chicot the Jester

Name: Chicot the Jester
Author: Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

Read by John Van Stan · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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The wedding of St. Luc (24:46)
How it is not always he who opens the door, who enters the house (14:00)
How it is sometimes difficult to distinguish a dream from the reality (9:55)
How Madame de St. Luc had passed the night (9:19)
How Madame de St. Luc passed the second night of her marriage (9:56)
Le petite coucher of Henri III (9:12)
How, without anyone knowing why, the king was converted before the next day (9:37)
How the king was afraid of being afraid (11:10)
How the angel made a mistake and spoke to Chicot, thinking it was the king (9:01)
How Bussy went to seek for the reality of his dream (13:22)
M. Bryan de Monsoreau (21:06)
How Bussy found both the portrait and the original (8:47)
Who Diana was (26:09)
The treaty (14:13)
The marriage (10:49)
The marriage (continued) (11:04)
How Henri III. traveled, and how long it took him to get from Paris to Fontainebleau (8:09)
Brother Gorenflot (17:41)
How Chicot found out that it was easier to go in than out of the abbey (10:54)
How Chicot, forced to remain in the abbey, saw and heard things very dangerous to see and hear (21:05)
How Chicot learned genealogy (9:49)
How M. and Madame de St. Luc met with a traveling companion (10:05)
The old man (10:58)
How Remy-le-Haudouin had, in Bussy's absence, established a communication with the Rue St. Antione (6:17)
The father and daughter (10:26)
How Brother Gorenflot awoke, and the reception he met with at his convent (7:48)
How Brother Gorenflot remained convinced that he was a somnambulist, and bitterly deplored this infirmity (6:51)
How Brother Gorenflot traveled upon an ass, named Panurge, and learned many things he did not know before (5:50)
How Brother Gorenflot changed his ass for a mule, and his mule for a horse (5:47)
How Chicot and his companion installed themselves at the Hotel of the Cross, and how they were received by the host (7:26)
How the monk confessed the advocate, and the advocate the monk (10:32)
How Chicot used his sword (10:53)
How the Duc D'Anjou learned that Diana was not dead (9:02)
How Chicot returned to the Louvre, and was received by the King Henri III. (8:38)
What passed between M. de Monsoreau and the Duke (9:30)
Chicot and the King (9:35)
What M. de Guise came to do at the Louvre (6:11)
Castor and Pollux (10:38)
In which it is proved that listening is the best way to hear (8:15)
The evening of the League (7:20)
The Rue de la Ferronnerie (9:17)
The Prince and the friend (9:10)
Etymology of the Rue de la Jussienne (11:26)
How D'Epernon had his doublet torn, and how Chomberg was stained blue (9:20)
Chicot more than ever King of France (11:00)
How Chicot paid a visit to Bussy, and what followed (11:52)
The chess of M. Chicot, and the cup and ball of M. Quelus (8:13)
The reception of the chiefs of The League (7:38)
How the King annexed a chief who was neither the Duc de Guise nor M. D'Anjou (8:51)
Eteocles and Polynices (10:41)
How people do not always lose their time by searching empty drawers (7:43)
Ventre St. Gris (7:08)
The friends (6:55)
Bussy and Diana (10:07)
How Bussy was offered three hundred pistoles for his horse, and parted with him for nothing (6:21)
The diplomacy of the Duc D'Anjou (8:15)
The ideas of the Duc D'Anjou (15:45)
A flight of Angevins (6:45)
Roland (4:55)
What M. de Monsoreau came to announce (5:26)
How the King learned the flight of his beloved brother, and what followed (9:05)
How, as Chicot and the Queen Mother were agreed, the King began to agree with them (9:24)
In which it is proved that gratitude was one of St. Luc's virtues (8:57)
The project of M. de St. Luc (9:03)
How M. de St. Luc showed M. de Monsoreau the trust that the King had taught him (6:44)
In which we see the Queen Mother enter the town of Angers, but not triumphantly (7:08)
Little causes and great effects (7:36)
How M. de Monsoreau opened and shut his eyes, which proved that he was not dead (7:47)
How M. le Duc D'Anjou went to Meridor to congratulate Madame de Monsoreau on the death of her husband, and found him there before him (9:16)
The inconvenience of large litters and narrow doors (8:23)
What temper the King was in when St. Luc reappeared at the Louvre (6:21)
In which we meet two important personages whom we have lost sight of for some time (5:22)
Diana's second journey to Paris (7:08)
How the ambassador of the Duc D'Anjou arrived at the Louvre, and the reception he met with (5:39)
Which is only the end of the preceding one (6:29)
How M. de St. Luc acquitted himself of the commission given to him by Bussy (8:24)
In what respect M. de St. Luc was more civilized than M. de Bussy, the lessons which he gave him, and the use which M. de Bussy made of them (6:53)
The Precautions of M. de Monsoreau (7:30)
A visit to the house at Les Tournelles (8:37)
The watchers (10:01)
How M. le Duc D'Anjou signed, and after having signed, spoke (16:35)
A promenade at the Tournelles (4:03)
In which Chicot sleeps (4:37)
Where Chicot wakes (8:59)
The Fete Dieu (8:52)
Which will elucidate the previous chapter (13:00)
The procession (7:20)
Chicot the First (7:50)
Interest and capital (8:24)
What was passing near the Bastille while Chicot was paying his debt to Y. de Mayenne (7:20)
The assassination (19:06)
How Brother Gorenflot found himself more than ever between a gallows and an abbey (9:02)
Where Chicot guesses why D'Epernon had blood on his feet and none in his cheeks (8:26)
The morning of the combat (4:59)
The friends of Bussy (9:21)
The combat (6:18)
The end (10:35)