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Marguerite de Valois

Alexandre Dumas · Public domain text

201,370 words · about 14 h 6 min to read

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Authors
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), Auguste Maquet (1813–1888)
Language
English
Subjects
Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610 › Fiction, Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572 › Fiction, Queens › France › Fiction, Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615 › Fiction
Length
201,370 words · about 14 h 6 min
Sections
67 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (67)
  1. Opening under 1 min
  2. I. MONSIEUR DE GUISE'S LATIN about 20 min
  3. II. THE QUEEN OF NAVARRE'S BEDCHAMBER about 17 min
  4. III. THE POET-KING about 18 min
  5. IV. THE EVENING OF THE 24TH OF AUGUST, 1572 about 12 min
  6. V. OF THE LOUVRE IN PARTICULAR, AND OF VIRTUE IN GENERAL about 13 min
  7. VI. THE DEBT PAID about 15 min
  8. VII. THE NIGHT OF THE 24TH OF AUGUST, 1572 about 21 min
  9. VIII. THE MASSACRE about 16 min
  10. IX. THE MURDERERS about 20 min
  11. X. DEATH, MASS, OR THE BASTILLE about 19 min
  12. XI. THE HAWTHORN OF THE CEMETERY OF THE INNOCENTS about 16 min
  13. XII. MUTUAL CONFIDENCES about 10 min
  14. Chapter XIII about 15 min
  15. XIV. THE SECOND MARRIAGE NIGHT about 13 min
  16. XV. WHAT WOMAN WILLS, GOD WILLS about 22 min
  17. XVI. A DEAD ENEMY'S BODY ALWAYS SMELLS SWEET about 17 min
  18. XVII. MAÎTRE AMBROISE PARÉ'S CONFRÈRE about 11 min
  19. XVIII. THE GHOSTS about 14 min
  20. XIX. THE ABODE OF MAÎTRE RÉNÉ, PERFUMER TO THE QUEEN MOTHER about 18 min
  21. XX. THE BLACK HENS about 9 min
  22. XXI. MADAME DE SAUVE'S APARTMENT about 13 min
  23. Chapter XXII about 7 min
  24. XXIII. A NEW CONVERT about 19 min
  25. XXIV. THE RUE TIZON AND THE RUE CLOCHE PERCÉE about 17 min
  26. XXV. THE CHERRY-COLORED CLOAK about 13 min
  27. XXVI. MARGARITA about 10 min
  28. XXVII. THE HAND OF GOD about 8 min
  29. XXVIII. THE LETTER FROM ROME about 9 min
  30. XXIX. THE DEPARTURE about 9 min
  31. XXX. MAUREVEL about 6 min
  32. XXXI. THE HUNT about 13 min
  33. XXXII. FRATERNITY about 11 min
  34. XXXIII. THE GRATITUDE OF KING CHARLES IX about 10 min
  35. XXXIV. MAN PROPOSES BUT GOD DISPOSES about 16 min
  36. XXXV. A NIGHT OF KINGS about 11 min
  37. XXXVI. THE ANAGRAM about 8 min
  38. XXXVII. THE RETURN TO THE LOUVRE about 15 min
  39. XXXVIII. THE GIRDLE OF THE QUEEN MOTHER about 12 min
  40. XXXIX. PROJECTS OF REVENGE about 19 min
  41. XL. THE ATRIDES about 16 min
  42. XLI. THE HOROSCOPE about 10 min
  43. XLII. CONFIDENCES about 16 min
  44. XLIII. THE AMBASSADORS about 10 min
  45. XLIV. ORESTES AND PYLADES about 13 min
  46. XLV. ORTHON about 17 min
  47. XLVI. THE INN OF LA BELLE ÉTOILE about 13 min
  48. XLVII. DE MOUY DE SAINT PHALE about 9 min
  49. XLVIII. TWO HEADS FOR ONE CROWN about 17 min
  50. XLIX. THE TREATISE ON HUNTING about 11 min
  51. L. HAWKING about 13 min
  52. LI. THE PAVILION OF FRANÇOIS I about 11 min
  53. LII. THE EXAMINATION about 13 min
  54. LIII. ACTÉON about 9 min
  55. LIV. THE FOREST OF VINCENNES about 10 min
  56. LV. THE FIGURE OF WAX about 15 min
  57. LVI. THE INVISIBLE BUCKLERS about 9 min
  58. LVII. THE JUDGES about 13 min
  59. LVIII. THE TORTURE OF THE BOOT about 12 min
  60. LIX. THE CHAPEL about 6 min
  61. LX. THE PLACE SAINT JEAN EN GRÈVE about 7 min
  62. LXI. THE HEADSMAN'S TOWER about 12 min
  63. LXII. THE SWEAT OF BLOOD about 6 min
  64. LXIII. THE DONJON OF THE PRISON OF VINCENNES about 6 min
  65. LXIV. THE REGENCY about 6 min
  66. LXV. THE KING IS DEAD! LONG LIVE THE KING! about 7 min
  67. LXVI. EPILOGUE about 14 min

The opening of I. MONSIEUR DE GUISE'S LATIN

On Monday, the 18th of August, 1572, there was a splendid festival at the Louvre.

The ordinarily gloomy windows of the ancient royal residence were brilliantly lighted, and the squares and streets adjacent, usually so solitary after Saint Germain l'Auxerrois had struck the hour of nine, were crowded with people, although it was past midnight.

The vast, threatening, eager, turbulent throng resembled, in the darkness, a black and tumbling sea, each billow of which makes a roaring breaker; this sea, flowing through the Rue des Fossés Saint Germain and the Rue de l'Astruce and covering the quay, surged against the base of the walls of the Louvre, and, in its refluent tide, against the Hôtel de Bourbon, which faced it on the other side.

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