Chicot the Jester
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Chapter 1 THE WEDDING OF ST. LUC.
Chapter 2 HOW IT IS NOT ALWAYS HE WHO OPENS THE DOOR, WHO ENTERS THE HOUSE.
Chapter 3 HOW IT IS SOMETIMES DIFFICULT TO DISTINGUISH A DREAM FROM THE REALITY.
Chapter 4 HOW MADAME DE ST. LUC HAD PASSED THE NIGHT.
Chapter 5 HOW MADAME DE ST. LUC PASSED THE SECOND NIGHT OF HER MARRIAGE.
Chapter 6 LE PETIT COUCHER OF HENRI III.
Chapter 7 HOW, WITHOUT ANY ONE KNOWING WHY, THE KING WAS CONVERTED BEFORE THE NEXT DAY.
Chapter 8 HOW THE KING WAS AFRAID OF BEING AFRAID.
Chapter 9 HOW THE ANGEL MADE A MISTAKE AND SPOKE TO CHICOT, THINKING IT WAS THE KING.
Chapter 10 HOW BUSSY WENT TO SEEK FOR THE REALITY OF HIS DREAM.
Chapter 11 M. BRYAN DE MONSOREAU.
Chapter 12 HOW BUSSY FOUND BOTH THE PORTRAIT AND THE ORIGINAL.
Chapter 13 WHO DIANA WAS.
Chapter 14 THE TREATY.
Chapter 15 THE MARRIAGE.
Chapter 16 THE MARRIAGE. No.16
Chapter 17 HOW HENRI III. TRAVELED, AND HOW LONG IT TOOK HIM TO GET FROM PARIS TO FONTAINEBLEAU.
Chapter 18 BROTHER GORENFLOT.
Chapter 19 HOW CHICOT FOUND OUT THAT IT WAS EASIER TO GO IN THAN OUT OF THE ABBEY.
Chapter 20 HOW CHICOT, FORCED TO REMAIN IN THE ABBEY, SAW AND HEARD THINGS VERY DANGEROUS TO SEE AND HEAR.
Chapter 21 HOW CHICOT LEARNED GENEALOGY.
Chapter 22 HOW M. AND MADAME DE ST. LUC MET WITH A TRAVELING COMPANION.
Chapter 23 THE OLD MAN.
Chapter 24 HOW REMY-LE-HAUDOUIN HAD, IN BUSSY'S ABSENCE, ESTABLISHED A COMMUNICATION WITH THE RUE ST. ANTOINE.
Chapter 25 THE FATHER AND DAUGHTER.
Chapter 26 HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT AWOKE, AND THE RECEPTION HE MET WITH AT HIS CONVENT.
Chapter 27 HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT REMAINED CONVINCED THAT HE WAS A SOMNAMBULIST, AND BITTERLY DEPLORED THIS INFIRMITY.
Chapter 28 HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT TRAVELED UPON AN ASS, NAMED PANURGE, AND LEARNED MANY THINGS HE DID NOT KNOW BEFORE.
Chapter 29 HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT CHANGED HIS ASS FOR A MULE, AND HIS MULE FOR A HORSE.
Chapter 30 HOW CHICOT AND HIS COMPANION INSTALLED THEMSELVES AT THE HOTEL OF THE CROSS, AND HOW THEY WERE RECEIVED BY THE HOST.
Chapter 31 HOW THE MONK CONFESSED THE ADVOCATE, AND THE ADVOCATE THE MONK.
Chapter 32 HOW CHICOT USED HIS SWORD.
Chapter 33 HOW THE DUC D'ANJOU LEARNED THAT DIANA WAS NOT DEAD.
Chapter 34 HOW CHICOT RETURNED TO THE LOUVRE, AND WAS RECEIVED BY THE KING HENRI III.
Chapter 35 WHAT PASSED BETWEEN M. DE MONSOREAU AND THE DUKE.
Chapter 36 CHICOT AND THE KING.
Chapter 37 WHAT M. DE GUISE CAME TO DO AT THE LOUVRE.
Chapter 38 CASTOR AND POLLUX.
Chapter 39 IN WHICH IT IS PROVED THAT LISTENING IS THE BEST WAY TO HEAR.
Chapter 40 THE EVENING OF THE LEAGUE.
Chapter 41 THE RUE DE LA FERRONNERIE.
Chapter 42 THE PRINCE AND THE FRIEND.
Chapter 43 ETYMOLOGY OF THE RUE DE LA JUSSIENNE.
Chapter 44 HOW D'EPERNON HAD HIS DOUBLET TORN, AND HOW CHOMBERG WAS STAINED BLUE.
Chapter 45 CHICOT MORE THAN EVER KING OF FRANCE.
Chapter 46 HOW CHICOT PAID A VISIT TO BUSSY, AND WHAT FOLLOWED.
Chapter 47 THE CHESS OF M. CHICOT, AND THE CUP AND BALL OF M. QUELUS.
Chapter 48 THE RECEPTION OF THE CHIEFS OF THE LEAGUE.
Chapter 49 HOW THE KING ANNEXED A CHIEF WHO WAS NEITHER THE DUC DE GUISE NOR M. D'ANJOU.
Chapter 50 ETEOCLES AND POLYNICES.
Chapter 51 HOW PEOPLE DO NOT ALWAYS LOSE THEIR TIME BY SEARCHING EMPTY DRAWERS.
Chapter 52 VENTRE ST. GRIS.
Chapter 53 THE FRIENDS.
Chapter 54 BUSSY AND DIANA.
Chapter 55 HOW BUSSY WAS OFFERED THREE HUNDRED PISTOLES FOR HIS HORSE, AND PARTED WITH HIM FOR NOTHING.
Chapter 56 THE DIPLOMACY OF THE DUC D'ANJOU.
Chapter 57 THE IDEAS OF THE DUC D'ANJOU.
Chapter 58 A FLIGHT OF ANGEVINS.
Chapter 59 ROLAND.
Chapter 60 WHAT M. DE MONSOREAU CAME TO ANNOUNCE.
Chapter 61 HOW THE KING LEARNED THE FLIGHT OF HIS BELOVED BROTHER, AND WHAT FOLLOWED.
Chapter 62 HOW, AS CHICOT AND THE QUEEN MOTHER WERE AGREED, THE KING BEGAN TO AGREE WITH THEM.
Chapter 63 IN WHICH IT IS PROVED THAT GRATITUDE WAS ONE OF ST. LUC'S VIRTUES.
Chapter 64 THE PROJECT OF M. DE ST. LUC.
Chapter 65 HOW M. DE ST. LUC SHOWED M. DE MONSOREAU THE THRUST THAT THE KING HAD TAUGHT HIM.
Chapter 66 IN WHICH WE SEE THE QUEEN-MOTHER ENTER THE TOWN OF ANGERS, BUT NOT TRIUMPHANTLY.
Chapter 67 LITTLE CAUSES AND GREAT EFFECTS.
Chapter 68 HOW M. DE MONSOREAU OPENED AND SHUT HIS EYES, WHICH PROVED THAT HE WAS NOT DEAD.
Chapter 69 HOW M. LE DUC D'ANJOU WENT TO MéRIDOR TO CONGRATULATE MADAME DE MONSOREAU ON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, AND FOUND HIM THERE BEFORE HIM.
Chapter 70 THE INCONVENIENCE OF LARGE LITTERS AND NARROW DOORS.
Chapter 71 WHAT TEMPER THE KING WAS IN WHEN ST. LUC REAPPEARED AT THE LOUVRE.
Chapter 72 IN WHICH WE MEET TWO IMPORTANT PERSONAGES WHOM WE HAVE LOST SIGHT OF FOR SOME TIME.
Chapter 73 DIANA'S SECOND JOURNEY TO PARIS.
Chapter 74 HOW THE AMBASSADOR OF THE DUC D'ANJOU ARRIVED AT THE LOUVRE, AND THE RECEPTION HE MET WITH.
Chapter 75 WHICH IS ONLY THE END OF THE PRECEDING ONE.
Chapter 76 HOW M. DE ST. LUC ACQUITTED HIMSELF OF THE COMMISSION GIVEN TO HIM BY BUSSY.
Chapter 77 IN WHAT RESPECT M. DE ST. LUC WAS MORE CIVILIZED THAN M. DE BUSSY, THE LESSONS WHICH HE GAVE HIM, AND THE USE WHICH M. DE BUSSY MADE OF THEM.
Chapter 78 THE PRECAUTIONS OF M. DE MONSOREAU.
Chapter 79 A VISIT TO THE HOUSE AT LES TOURNELLES.
Chapter 80 THE WATCHERS.
Chapter 81 HOW M. LE DUC D'ANJOU SIGNED, AND AFTER HAVING SIGNED, SPOKE.
Chapter 82 A PROMENADE AT THE TOURNELLES.
Chapter 83 IN WHICH CHICOT SLEEPS.
Chapter 84 WHERE CHICOT WAKES.
Chapter 85 THE FêTE DIEU.
Chapter 86 WHICH WILL ELUCIDATE THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER.
Chapter 87 THE PROCESSION.
Chapter 88 CHICOT THE FIRST.
Chapter 89 INTEREST AND CAPITAL.
Chapter 90 WHAT WAS PASSING NEAR THE BASTILE WHILE CHICOT WAS PAYING HIS DEBT TO Y. DE MAYENNE.
Chapter 91 THE ASSASSINATION.
Chapter 92 HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT FOUND HIMSELF MORE THAN EVER BETWEEN A GALLOWS AND AN ABBEY.
Chapter 93 WHERE CHICOT GUESSES WHY D'EPERNON HAD BLOOD ON HIS FEET AND NONE IN HIS CHEEKS.
Chapter 94 THE MORNING OF THE COMBAT.
Chapter 95 THE FRIENDS OF BUSSY.
Chapter 96 THE COMBAT.
Chapter 97 THE END.
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Chapter 89 INTEREST AND CAPITAL.

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