CHICOT THE JESTER

[Abridged translation of "La dame de Monsoreau"]

 

By

 

Alexandre Dumas père

 

CONTENTS:

CHAPTER I. THE WEDDING OF ST. LUC. 6

CHAPTER II. HOW IT IS NOT ALWAYS HE WHO OPENS THE DOOR, WHO ENTERS THE HOUSE. 18

CHAPTER III. HOW IT IS SOMETIMES DIFFICULT TO DISTINGUISH A DREAM FROM THE REALITY. 24

CHAPTER IV. HOW MADAME DE ST. LUC HAD PASSED THE NIGHT. 28

CHAPTER V. HOW MADAME DE ST. LUC PASSED THE SECOND NIGHT OF HER MARRIAGE. 34

CHAPTER VI. LE PETIT COUCHER OF HENRI III. 40

CHAPTER VII. HOW, WITHOUT ANY ONE KNOWING WHY, THE KING WAS CONVERTED BEFORE THE NEXT DAY. 45

CHAPTER VIII. HOW THE KING WAS AFRAID OF BEING AFRAID. 50

CHAPTER IX. HOW THE ANGEL MADE A MISTAKE AND SPOKE TO CHICOT, THINKING IT WAS THE KING. 57

CHAPTER X. HOW BUSSY WENT TO SEEK FOR THE REALITY OF HIS DREAM. 62

CHAPTER XI. M. BRYAN DE MONSOREAU. 70

CHAPTER XII. HOW BUSSY FOUND BOTH THE PORTRAIT AND THE ORIGINAL. 82

CHAPTER XIII. WHO DIANA WAS. 87

CHAPTER XIV. THE TREATY. 96

CHAPTER XV. THE MARRIAGE. 100

CHAPTER XVI. THE MARRIAGE. 103

CHAPTER XVII. HOW HENRI III. TRAVELED, AND HOW LONG IT TOOK HIM TO GET FROM PARIS TO FONTAINEBLEAU. 107

CHAPTER XVIII. BROTHER GORENFLOT. 110

CHAPTER XIX. HOW CHICOT FOUND OUT THAT IT WAS EASIER TO GO IN THAN OUT OF THE ABBEY. 120

CHAPTER XX. HOW CHICOT, FORCED TO REMAIN IN THE ABBEY, SAW AND HEARD THINGS VERY DANGEROUS TO SEE AND HEAR. 124

CHAPTER XXI. HOW CHICOT LEARNED GENEALOGY. 132

CHAPTER XXII. HOW M. AND MADAME DE ST. LUC MET WITH A TRAVELING COMPANION. 137

CHAPTER XXIII. THE OLD MAN. 142

CHAPTER XXIV. HOW REMY-LE-HAUDOUIN HAD, IN BUSSY'S ABSENCE, ESTABLISHED A COMMUNICATION WITH THE RUE ST. ANTOINE. 146

CHAPTER XXV. THE FATHER AND DAUGHTER. 149

CHAPTER XXVI. HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT AWOKE, AND THE RECEPTION HE MET WITH AT HIS CONVENT. 153

CHAPTER XXVII. HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT REMAINED CONVINCED THAT HE WAS A SOMNAMBULIST, AND BITTERLY DEPLORED THIS INFIRMITY. 157

CHAPTER XXVIII HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT TRAVELED UPON AN ASS, NAMED PANURGE, AND LEARNED MANY THINGS HE DID NOT KNOW BEFORE. 161

CHAPTER XXIX. HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT CHANGED HIS ASS FOR A MULE, AND HIS MULE FOR A HORSE. 164

CHAPTER XXX. HOW CHICOT AND HIS COMPANION INSTALLED THEMSELVES AT THE HOTEL OF THE CROSS, AND HOW THEY WERE RECEIVED BY THE HOST. 168

CHAPTER XXXI. HOW THE MONK CONFESSED THE ADVOCATE, AND THE ADVOCATE THE MONK. 172

CHAPTER XXXII. HOW CHICOT USED HIS SWORD. 179

CHAPTER XXXIII. HOW THE DUC D'ANJOU LEARNED THAT DIANA WAS NOT DEAD. 184

CHAPTER XXXIV. HOW CHICOT RETURNED TO THE LOUVRE, AND WAS RECEIVED BY THE KING HENRI III. 190

CHAPTER XXXV. WHAT PASSED BETWEEN M. DE MONSOREAU AND THE DUKE. 195

CHAPTER XXXVI. CHICOT AND THE KING. 200

CHAPTER XXXVII. WHAT M. DE GUISE CAME TO DO AT THE LOUVRE. 206

CHAPTER XXXVIII. CASTOR AND POLLUX. 209

CHAPTER XXXIX. IN WHICH IT IS PROVED THAT LISTENING IS THE BEST WAY TO HEAR. 214

CHAPTER XL. THE EVENING OF THE LEAGUE. 218

CHAPTER XLI. THE RUE DE LA FERRONNERIE. 222

CHAPTER XLII. THE PRINCE AND THE FRIEND. 226

CHAPTER XLIII. ETYMOLOGY OF THE RUE DE LA JUSSIENNE. 231

CHAPTER XLIV. HOW D'EPERNON HAD HIS DOUBLET TORN, AND HOW CHOMBERG WAS STAINED BLUE. 236

CHAPTER XLV. CHICOT MORE THAN EVER KING OF FRANCE. 241

CHAPTER XLVI. HOW CHICOT PAID A VISIT TO BUSSY, AND WHAT FOLLOWED. 247

CHAPTER XLVII. THE CHESS OF M. CHICOT, AND THE CUP AND BALL OF M. QUELUS. 254

CHAPTER XLVIII. THE RECEPTION OF THE CHIEFS OF THE LEAGUE.