The Forty-Five Guardsmen

Alexandre Dumas

Language: English

Genres: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs Historical Fiction Literary Fiction War & Military Fiction

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1. The Porte St. Antoine
2. What passed outside the Porte St. Antoine
3. The examination
4. His majesty Henri the Third
5. The Execution
6. The Brothers
7. The sword of the brave chevalier
8. The gascon
9. M. Loignac
10. The purchase of cuirasses
11. Still the League
12. The chamber of his majesty Henri III
13. The dormitory
14. The shade of Chicot
15. The difficulty of finding a good ambassador
16. The serenade
17. Chicot's purse
18. The priory of the Jacobins
19. The two friends
20. The breakfast
21. Brother Borromee
22. The lesson
23. The penitent
24. The ambush
25. The Guises
26. The Louvre
27. The revelation
28. Two friends
29. St. Maline
30. De Loignac's interview with the forty-five
31. The Bourgeois of Paris
32. Brother Borromee
33. Chicot, Latinist
34. The four winds
35. How Chicot continued his journey, and what happened to him
36. The third day of the Journey
37. Ernanton de Carmainges
38. The stable-yard
39. The seven sins of Magdalen
40. Bel-Esbat
41. The letter of M. de Mayenne
42. How Dom Gorenflot blessed the king as he passed before the priory of the Jacobins
43. How Chicot blessed King Louis II. for having invented posting, and resolved to profit by it
44. How the King of Navarre guesses that ''Turennius'' means Turenne, and ''Margot'' Margot
45. The Avenue 3000 Feet Long
46. Marguerite's room
47. The explanation
48. The Spanish Ambassador
49. The poor of Henri of Navarre
50. The true mistress of the King of Navarre
51. Chicot's astonishment at finding himself so popular in Nerac
52. How the hunted the wolf in Navarre
53. How Henri of Navarre behaved in battle
54. What was passing at the Louvre about the time Chicot entered Nerac
55. Red plume and white plume
56. The door opens
57. How a great lady loved in the year 1586
58. How St. Maline entered into the Turret and what followed
59. What was passing in the mysterious house
60. The laboratory
61. What M. Francois, Duc d'Anjou, Duc de Brabant and Comte de Flanders was doing in Flanders
62. Preparations for battle
63. Monseigneur
64. Monseigneur (continued)
65. French and Flemings
66. The travelers
67. Explanation
68. The water
69. Flight
70. Transfiguration
71. The two brothers
72. The expedition
73. Paul-Emile
74. One of the souvenirs of the Duc d'Anjou
75. How Aurilly executed the commission of the Duc d'Anjou
76. The journey
77. How King Henri III. did not invite Grillon to breakfast, and how Chicot invited himself
78. How, after receiving news from the south, Henri received news from the north
79. The two companions
80. The Corne d'Abondance
81. What happened in the little room
82. The husband and the lover
83. Showing how Chicot began to understand the purport of M. de Guise's letter
84. Le Cardinal de Joyeuse
85. News from Aurilly
86. Doubt
87. Certainty
88. Fatality
89. Les hospitalieres
90. His Highness Monseigneur le Duc de Guise
91. Postscript

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The sequel to "Chicot the Jester" and final book of the "Valois Romances." This story begins six years after the famed "Duel of the Mignons" between the favorites of the courts of King Henry III and Henry the Duke of Guise (somewhat allied with the King's brother, Francis, Duke of Anjou and Alencon). Dumas concludes his historical fiction on the War of the Three Henries while (1) detailing the formation of the Forty-Five Guardsmen (who were to become the Musketeers), (2) following Chicot the Jester as he stays loyal to the failing regency of King Henry III, and (3) continuing the story of Diana (a principal character in the previous book). - Summary by jvanstan