Alexandre Dumas
The Mesmerist's Victim
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664621801
Table of Contents
THE MESMERIST’S VICTIM; OR , A N D R E A D E T A V E R N E Y.
CHAPTER I. THE DESPERATE RESCUE.
CHAPTER II. THE FIELD OF THE DEAD.
CHAPTER IV. AN AERIAL JOURNEY.
CHAPTER VI. WHAT GILBERT EXPECTED.
CHAPTER VII. THE TRAP TO CATCH PHILOSOPHERS.
CHAPTER VIII. THE LITTLE TRIANON.
CHAPTER X. A SEANCE OF MESMERISM.
CHAPTER XI. THE DOWNFALL AND THE ELEVATION.
CHAPTER XIII. NICOLE IS VALUED PROPERLY.
CHAPTER XIV. ONE MAN’S MEAT IS ANOTHER’S POISON.
CHAPTER XV. THE ROAD TO PREMIERSHIP IS NOT STREWN WITH ROSES.
CHAPTER XVI. THE ENDLESS LAW SUIT.
CHAPTER XVII. THE SECRET SOCIETY LODGE.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE INNERMOST CIRCLE.
CHAPTER XX. THE DIAMOND COLLAR.
CHAPTER XXI. THE KING’S PRIVATE SUPPER-PARTY.
CHAPTER XXIII. FATHER AND DAUGHTER.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE RICHELIEU ELIXIR.
CHAPTER XXVI. SARTINES BELIEVES BALSAMO IS A MAGICIAN.
CHAPTER XXVII. LOVE VERSUS SCIENCE.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ULTIMATE TEST.
CHAPTER XXIX. THE LIQUOR OF BEAUTY.
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE FAINTING FITS.
CHAPTER XXXV. THE MISUNDERSTANDING.
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE GUILTY ONE.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. FATHER AND SON.
CHAPTER XXXIX. GILBERT’S PROJECT.
CHAPTER XL. DECEMBER THE FIFTEENTH.
CHAPTER XLII. A STRANGE ENCOUNTER.
CHAPTER XLIII. THE LAST ABSOLUTE KING.
THE MESMERIST’S VICTIM;
OR,
A N D R E A D E T A V E R N E Y.
CHAPTER I.
THE DESPERATE RESCUE.
ON the thirteenth of May, 1770, Paris celebrated the wedding of the Dauphin or Prince Royal Louis Aguste, grandson of Louis XV. still reigning, with Marie-Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria.
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