Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge

Alexandre Dumas

Those portions of the narrative which describe the life of the queen at the Temple, and subsequently in the Conciergerie, are founded strictly upon fact. Of the treatment accorded to the little Dauphin by Simon, who is given much prominence in the story, it need only be said that it falls far short of the truth as it is to be found in numberless memoirs and documents. There is nothing in all history more touching and heart-rending than the fate of this innocent child, who was literally done to death by sheer brutality in less than two years; nor is there any one of the excesses committed by the extreme revolutionists which has done more to cause posterity to fail to realize the vast benefits which mankind owes to the Revolution, in the face of the unnamable horrors which were perpetrated in its name...FROM THE BOOKS.

Table of contents

• Introductory Note
• Chapter–I. The Enrolled Volunteers
• Chapter–II. The Unknown
• Chapter–III. The Rue Des Fosses Saint Victor
• Chapter–IV. Manners of the Times
• Chapter–VI. The Temple
• Chapter–VII. he Oath of the Gamester
• Chapter–VIII. Geneviève
• Chapter–IX. The Supper
• Chapter–X. Simon the Shoemaker
• Chapter–XI. The Billet
• Chapter–XII. Love
• Chapter–XIII. The Thirty First of May
• Chapter–XIV. Devotion
• Chapter–XV. The Goddess Reason
• Chapter–XVI. The Prodigal Child
• Chapter–XVII. The Miners
• Chapter–XVIII. Clouds
• Chapter–XIX. The Request
• Chapter–XX. The Flower-Girl
• Chapter–XXI. The Crimson Carnation
• Chapter–XXII. Simon the Censor
• Chapter–XXIII. Arthémise
• Chapter–XXIV. The Mother and Daughter
• Chapter–XXV. The Conspiracy
• Chapter–XXVI. The Little Dog Jet
• Chapter–XXVII. The Muscadin
• Chapter–XXVIII. The Chevalier De Maison-Rouge
• Chapter–XXIX. The Patrol
• Chapter–XXX. The Password
• Chapter–XXXI. The Search
• Chapter–XXXII. The Fire
• Chapter–XXXIII. The Morrow
• Chapter–XXXIV. The Conciergerie
• Chapter–XXXV. La Salle Des Pas-Perdus
• Chapter–XXXVI. The Citizen Théodore
• Chapter–XXXVII. The Citizen Gracchus
• Chapter–XXXVIII. The Royal Child
• Chapter–XXXIX. The Bouquet of Violets
• Chapter–XL. The Tavern of Noah’s Well
• Chapter–XLI. he Registrar of the Minister Of War
• Chapter–XLII. The two Billets
• Chapter–XLIII. The Preparations of Dixmer
• Chapter–XLIV. The Preparations of the Chevalier
• Chapter–XLV. The Inquiry
• Chapter–XLVI. The Sentence
• Chapter–XLVII. The Priest and the Executioner
• Chapter–XLVIII. The Cart
• Chapter–XLIX. The Scaffold
• Chapter–L The. Visit to the Domicile
• Chapter–LI. Lorin
• Chapter–LII. Sequel to the Preceding
• Chapter–LIII. The Duel
• Chapter–LIV. The Salle Des Morts
• Chapter–LV. Why Lorin Went Out
• Chapter–LVI. Long Live Simon!