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The Mesmerist's Victim or Andrea de taverney. A historical romamce by Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas (Author), HENRY LLEWELLYN WILLIAMS. (Translator) B00CVK5ZKC File Size: 531 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- The Mesmerist's Victim or Andrea de taverney. A historical romamce by Alexandre Dumas CONTENTS 1. THE DESPERATE RESCUE. 2. THE FIELD OF THE DEAD. 3. THE RESTORATION. 4. AN AERIAL JOURNEY. 5. SUSPICIONS. 6. WHAT GILBERT EXPECTED. 7. THE TRAP TO CATCH PHILOSOPHERS. 8. THE LITTLE TRIANON. 9. THE HUNT. 10. A SEANCE OF MESMERISM. 11. THE DOWNFALL AND THE ELEVATION. 12. ANDREA IN FAVOR. 13. NICOLE IS VALUED PROPERLY. 14. ONE MAN?S MEAT IS ANOTHER?S POISON. 15. THE ROAD TO PREMIERSHIP IS NOT STREWN WITH ROSES. 16. THE ENDLESS LAW SUIT. 17. THE SECRET SOCIETY LODGE. 18. THE INNERMOST CIRCLE. 19. BODY AND SOUL. 20. THE DIAMOND COLLAR. 21. THE KING?S PRIVATE SUPPER-PARTY. 22. PRESENTIMENTS. 23. FATHER AND DAUGHTER. 24. THE RICHELIEU ELIXIR. 25. SECOND SIGHT. 26. SARTINES BELIEVES BALSAMO IS A MAGICIAN. 27. LOVE VERSUS SCIENCE. 28. THE ULTIMATE TEST. 29. THE LIQUOR OF BEAUTY. 30. THE BLOOD. 31. THE TRIAL. 32. MAN AND GOD. 33. THE FAINTING FITS. 34. THE AVENGER. 35. THE MISUNDERSTANDING. 36. TWO SORROWS. 37. THE GUILTY ONE. 38. FATHER AND SON. 39. GILBERT?S PROJECT. 40. DECEMBER THE FIFTEENTH. 41. THE KIDNAPPING. 42. A STRANGE ENCOUNTER. 43. THE LAST ABSOLUTE KING. 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. The entire population flocked towards Louis XV. Place, where fireworks were to be let off. A pyrotechnical display was the finish to all grand public ceremonies, and the Parisians were fond of them although they might make fun. The ground was happily chosen, as it would hold six thousand spectators. Around the equestrian statue of the King, stands were built circularly to give a view of the fireworks, to be set off at ten or twelve feet elevation. The townsfolk began to assemble long before seven o?clock when the City Guard arrived to keep order. This duty rather belonged to the French Guards, but the Municipal government had refused the extra pay their Commander, Colonel, the Marshal Duke Biron, demanded, and these warriors in a huff were scattered in the mob, vexed and quarrelsome. They sneered loudly at the tumult, which they boasted they would have quelled with the pike-stock or the musket-butt if they had the ruling of the gathering. The shrieks of the women, squeezed in the press, the wailing of the children, the swearing of the troopers, the grumbling of the fat citizens, the protests of the cake and candy merchants whose goods were stolen, all prepared a petty uproar preceding the deafening one which six hundred thousand souls were sure to create when collected. At eight at evening, they produced a vast picture, like one after Teniers, but with French faces. About half past eight nearly all eyes were fastened on the scaffold where the famous Ruggieri and his assistants were putting the final touches to the matches and fuses of the old pieces. Many large compositions were on the frames. The grand bouquet, or shower of stars, girandoles and squibs, with which such shows always conclude, was to go off from a rampart, near the Seine River, on a raised bank. As the men carried their lanterns to the places where the pieces would be fired, a lively sensation was raised in the throng, and some of the timid drew back, which made the whole waver in line. Carriages with the better class still arrived but they could not reach the stand to deposit their passengers. The mob hemmed them in and some persons objected to having the horses lay their heads on their shoulder.   The Countess of Charny or, The Execution of King Louis XVI by Alexandre Dumas (pere) Alexandre Dumas (Author), HENRY LLEWELLYN WILLIAMS. (Illustrator) B00CXVT4JM File Size: 495 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- The Countess of Charny or, The Execution of King Louis XVI by Alexandre Dumas (pere) CONTENTS. 1. THE NEW MEN AT THE WHEEL. 2. GILBERT'S CANDIDATE. 3. POWERFUL, PERHAPS; HAPPY, NEVER. 4. THE FOES FACE TO FACE. 5. THE UNINVITED VISITORS. 6. THE COUNTRY IS IN DANGER! 7. THE MEN FROM MARSEILLES. 8. THE FRIEND IN NEED. 9. CHARNY ON GUARD. 10. BILLET AND PITOU. 11. IN THE MORNING. 12. THE FIRST MASSACRE. 13. THE REPULSE. 14. THE LAST OF THE CHARNYS. 15. THE BLOOD-STAINS. 16. THE WIDOW. 17. WHAT ANDREA WANTED OF GILBERT. 18. THE ASSEMBLY AND THE COMMUNE. 19. CAPTAIN BEAUSIRE APPEARS AGAIN. 20. THE EMETIC. 21. BEAUSIRE'S BRAVADO. 22. SET UPON DYING. 23. THE DEATH OF THE COUNTESS. 24. THE ROYAL MARTYR. 25. MASTER GAMAIN TURNS UP. 26. THE TRIAL OF THE KING. 27. THE PARALLEL TO CHARLES I. 28. CAGLIOSTRO'S ADVICE. 29. THE CROWN OF ANGE'S LOVE. 30. THE EFFECT OF HAPPY NEWS. 31. THE EASY-CHAIR. 32. WHAT PITOU DID WITH THE FIND. CHAPTER I. THE NEW MEN AT THE WHEEL. It was on the first of October, 1791, that the new Legislative Assembly was to be inaugurated over France. King Louis XVI., captured with Queen Marie Antoinette and the royal family, while attempting to escape from the kingdom and join his brothers and the other princes abroad, was held in a kind of detention, like imprisonment without hard labor, in the Tuileries Palace in Paris. His fate hung on the members of the new House of Representatives. Let us hasten to see what they were. The Congress was composed of seven hundred and forty-five members: four hundred lawyers of one kind or another; some seventy literary men; seventy priests who had taken the oath to abide by the Constitution, not yet framed, but to which the king had subscribed on the sketch. The remaining two hundred odd were landholders, farming their own estates or hiring them out to others. Among these was François Billet, a robust peasant of forty-five, distinguished by the people of Paris and France as a hero, from having been mainly instrumental in the taking of the Bastile, regarded as the embodiment of the ancient tyranny, now almost leveled with the dust. Billet had suffered two wrongs at the hands of the king's men and the nobles, which he had sworn to avenge as well on the classes as on the individuals. His farm-house had been pillaged by Paris policemen acting under a blank warrant signed by the king and issued at the request of Andrea de Taverney, Countess of Charny, the queen's favorite, as her husband the count was reckoned, too. She had a spite against Billet's friend, Dr. Honore Gilbert, a noted patriot and politician. In his youth, this afterward distinguished physician had taken advantage of her senses being steeped in a mesmeric swoon, to lower her pride. Thanks to this trance and from his overruling love, he was the progenitor of her son, Sebastian Emile Gilbert; but with all the pride of this paternity, he was haunted by unceasing remorse. Andrea could not forgive this crime, all the more as it was a thorn in her side since her marriage. It was a marriage enforced on her, as the Count of Charny had been caught by the king on his knees to the queen; and to prevent the stupid monarch being convinced by this scene that there was truth in the tattle at court that Count Charny was Marie Antoinette's paramour, she had explained that he merely was suing for the hand of her friend Andrea. The king's consent given, this marriage took place, but for six years the couple dwelt apart; not that mutual love did not prevail between them, but neither was aware of the affection each had inspired in the other at first sight. The new countess thought that Charny's affection for the queen was a guilty and durable one; while he, believing his wife, by compulsion, a saint on earth, dared not presume on the position which fate and devotion to their sovereign had imposed on them both. This devotion was confirmed on the count's part, cemented by blood; for his two brothers, Valence and Isidore, had lost their lives in   The Royal Life Guard or, the flight of the royal family. A historical romance of the suppression of the French monarchy by Alexander Dumas (pere) Author: Alexander Dumas (pere), Translator: Hery Llewellyn Williams B00EYV7C20 File Size: 552 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- FRANCE, KING, QUEEN, FEDERATION, monarchy, Marie Antoinette, Royal Family France had been changed to a limited monarchy from an absolute one, and King Louis XVI. had solemnly sworn to defend the new Constitution. But it had been remarked by shrewd observers that he had not attended the Te Deum at the Paris Cathedral, with the members of the National Assembly: that is, he would tell a lie but not commit perjury. The people were therefore on their guard against him, while they felt that his Queen, Marie Antoinette, the daughter of Austria, was ever their foe. But the murders by the rabble had frightened all property holders and when the court bought Mirabeau, the popular orator, over to its cause by paying his debts and a monthly salary the majority of the better classes, who had not fled from France in terror, thought the Royal Family would yet regain their own. In point of fact, Mirabeau had obtained from the House of Representatives that the King should have the right to rule the army and direct it and propose war, which the Assembly would only have the sanction of. He would have obtained more in the reaction after the Taking of the Bastile but for an unknown hand having distributed full particulars of his purchase by the royalists in a broadside given away by thousands in the streets. Hence he retired from the senate broken by his victory, though carrying himself proudly. In face of danger the strong athlete thought of the antagonist, not of his powers. On going home, he flung himself on the floor, rolling on flowers. He had two passionate loves: for the fair sex, because he was an ugly though robust man, and for flowers. This time he felt so exhausted that he resisted his attendant feebly, who wanted to send for a doctor, when "Dr. Gilbert" was announced.   The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere : (full image Illustrated) Alexandre Dumas, Pere File Size: 27120 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- fiction, adventure, Conspiracy, Chamber, Treasure, Smugglers, ATTACK Chapter 1. Marseilles--The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d'If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island. Immediately, and according to custom, the ramparts of Fort Saint-Jean were covered with spectators; it is always an event at Marseilles for a ship to come into port, especially when this ship, like the Pharaon, has been built, rigged, and laden at the old Phocee docks, and belongs to an owner of the city. The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands; had doubled Pomegue, and approached the harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and sedately that the idlers, with that instinct which is the forerunner of evil, asked one another what misfortune could have happened on board. However, those experienced in navigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all the evidence of being skilfully handled, the anchor a-cockbill, the jib-boom guys already eased off, and standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and repeated each direction of the pilot. The vague disquietude which prevailed among the spectators had so much affected one of the crowd that he did not await the arrival of the vessel in harbor, but jumping into a small skiff, desired to be pulled alongside the Pharaon, which he reached as she rounded into La Reserve basin. When the young man on board saw this person approach, he left his station by the pilot, and, hat in hand, leaned over the ship's bulwarks.