ALEXANDRE DUMAS
The Last Cavalier
Being the Adventures of COUNT SAINTE-HERMINE in the Age of Napoleon
Translated by LAUREN YODER
CONTENTS
PART I - BONAPARTE
I - Josephine’s Debts
II - How the Free City of Hamburg Paid Josephine’s Debts
III - The Companions of Jehu
IV - The Son of the Miller of La Guerche
V - The Mousetrap
VI - The Combat of the One Hundred
VII - Blues and Whites
VIII - The Meeting
IX - Two Companions at Arms
X - Two Young Women Put Their Heads Together
XI - Madame de Permon’s Ball
XII - The Queen’s Minuet
XIII - The Three Sainte-Hermines
XIV - Léon de Sainte-Hermine
XV - Charles de Sainte-Hermine [I]
XVI - Mademoiselle de Fargas
XVII - The Ceyzériat Caves
XVIII - Charles de Sainte-Hermine [2]
XIX - The End of Hector’s Story
XX - Fouché
XXI - In Which Fouché Works to Return to the Ministry of Police, Which He Has Not Yet Left
XXII - In Which Mademoiselle de Beauharnais Becomes the Wife of a King without a Throne and Mademoiselle de Sourdis the Widow of a Living Husband
XXIII - The Burning Brigades
XXIV - Counterorders
XXV - The Duc d’Enghien [I]
XXVI - In the Vernon Forest
XXVII - The Bomb
XXVIII - The Real Perpetrators
XXIX - King Louis of Parma
XXX - Jupiter on Mount Olympus
XXXI - War
XXXII - Citizen Régnier’s Police and Citizen Fouché’s Police
XXXIII - Empty-Handed
XXXIV - The Revelations of a Man Who Hanged Himself
XXXV - The Arrests
XXXVI - George
XXXVII - The Duc d’Enghien [2]
XXXVIII - Chateaubriand
XXXIX - The Embassy in Rome
XL - Resolve
XLI - Via Dolorosa
XLII - Suicide
XLIII - The Trial
XLIV - In the Temple
XLV - In the Courtroom
XLVI - The Sentencing
XLVII - The Execution
PART II - NAPOLEON
XLVIII - After Three Years in Prison
XLIX - Saint-Malo
L - Madame Leroux’s Inn
LI - The Fake English Ship
LII - Surcouf
LIII - The Officers on the Revenant
LIV - Getting Under Way
LV - Tenerife
LVI - Crossing the Line
LVII - The Slave Ship
LVIII - How the American Captain Got Forty-Five Thousand Francs instead of the Five Thousand He Was Asking For
LIX - Île de France
LX - On Land
LXI - The Return [I]
LXII - The New York Racer
LXIII - The Guardian
LXIV - Malay Pirates
LXV - Arrival
LXVI - Pegu
LXVII - The Trip
LXVIII - The Emperor Snake
LXIX - Brigands
LXX - The Steward’s Family
LXXI - The Garden of Eden
LXXII - The Colony
LXXIII - The Vicomte de Sainte-Hermine Is Buried
LXXIV - Tigers and Elephants
LXXV - Jane’s Illness
LXXVI - Delayed Departure
LXXVII - Indian Nights
LXXVIII - Preparations for a Wedding
LXXIX - The Wedding
LXXX - Eurydice
LXXXI - Return to Pegu
LXXXII - Two Captures
LXXXIII - Return to Chien-de-Plomb
LXXXIV - A Visit to the Governor
LXXXV - A Collection for the Poor
LXXXVI - Departure
LXXXVII - What Was Happening in Europe
LXXXVIII - Emma Lyonna
LXXXIX - In Which Napoleon Sees That Sometimes It Is More Difficult to Control Men Than Fortune
XC - The Port of Cadiz
XCI - The Little Bird
XCII - Trafalgar
XCIII - Disaster