The Last Vendée

or, The She-Wolves of Machecoul

Alexandre Dumas

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785501629219
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

The Vendée in 1832: the Duchesse de Berry lands to raise the west against Louis-Philippe, and a family is divided between the two sides. Dumas had helped the general who arrested the duchess write his memoir of the rising, and came back to the material a quarter of a century later. The hiding place behind the chimney at Nantes is the historical episode the whole book is built towards. Forty-nine plates by painters including Corot and Millet follow the novel's course from forest edge and pasture to battle, matching the wooded, waterlogged country of the Vendée campaign.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• 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
• 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
• State of Siege
• 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
• About the Author