Chicot the Jester

Chicot the Jester*

Alexandre Dumas

Release Date: February, 2005 [EBook #7426]

*An abridged translation of “La dame de Monsoreau”

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Title: Chicot the Jester [An abridged translation of “La dame de Monsoreau”]

Release Date: February, 2005 [EBook #7426] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on April 28, 2003]

Contents
CHICOT THE JESTER
Abridged translation of “La dame de Monsoreau”
BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS
1 THE WEDDING OF ST. LUC.
2 HOW IT IS NOT ALWAYS HE WHO OPENS THE DOOR, WHO ENTERS THE HOUSE.
3 HOW IT IS SOMETIMES DIFFICULT TO DISTINGUISH A DREAM FROM THE REALITY.
4 HOW MADAME DE ST. LUC HAD PASSED THE NIGHT.
5 HOW MADAME DE ST. LUC PASSED THE SECOND NIGHT OF HER MARRIAGE.
6 LE PETIT COUCHER OF HENRI III.
7 HOW THE KING WAS CONVERTED BEFORE THE NEXT DAY.
8 HOW THE KING WAS AFRAID OF BEING AFRAID.
9 HOW THE ANGEL SPOKE TO CHICOT, THINKING IT WAS THE KING.
10 HOW BUSSY WENT TO SEEK FOR THE REALITY OF HIS DREAM.
11 M. BRYAN DE MONSOREAU.
12 HOW BUSSY FOUND BOTH THE PORTRAIT AND THE ORIGINAL.
13 WHO DIANA WAS.
14 THE TREATY.
15 THE MARRIAGE.
16 THE MARRIAGE.
17 HOW HENRI III. TRAVELED FROM PARIS TO FONTAINEBLEAU.
18 BROTHER GORENFLOT.
19 HOW CHICOT FOUND OUT THAT IT WAS EASIER TO GO IN THAN OUT OF THE ABBEY.
20 HOW CHICOT, SAW AND HEARD THINGS VERY DANGEROUS TO SEE AND HEAR.
21 HOW CHICOT LEARNED GENEALOGY.
22 HOW M. AND MADAME DE ST. LUC MET WITH A TRAVELING COMPANION.
23 THE OLD MAN.
24 HOW RÈMY-LE-HAUDOUIN ESTABLISHED A COMMUNICATION WITH RUE ST. ANTOINE.
25 THE FATHER AND DAUGHTER.
26 HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT AWOKE, THE RECEPTION HE MET WITH AT HIS CONVENT.
27 HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT REMAINED CONVINCED THAT HE WAS A SOMNAMBULIST
28 HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT TRAVELED UPON AN ASS, NAMED PANURGE
29 HOW BROTHER GORENFLOT CHANGED HIS ASS FOR A MULE, HIS MULE FOR A HORSE.
30 HOW CHICOT AND COMPANION INSTALLED THEMSELVES AT HOTEL OF THE CROSS
31 HOW THE MONK CONFESSED THE ADVOCATE, AND THE ADVOCATE THE MONK.
32 HOW CHICOT USED HIS SWORD.
33 HOW THE DUC D’ANJOU LEARNED THAT DIANA WAS NOT DEAD.
34 HOW CHICOT RETURNED TO THE LOUVRE, AND WAS RECEIVED BY THE KING
35 WHAT PASSED BETWEEN M. DE MONSOREAU AND THE DUKE.
36 CHICOT AND THE KING.
37 WHAT M. DE GUISE CAME TO DO AT THE LOUVRE.
38 CASTOR AND POLLUX.
39 IN WHICH IT IS PROVED THAT LISTENING IS THE BEST WAY TO HEAR.
40 THE EVENING OF THE LEAGUE.
41 THE RUE DE LA FERRONNERIE.
42 THE PRINCE AND THE FRIEND.
43 ETYMOLOGY OF THE RUE DE LA JUSSIENNE.
44 HOW D’EPERNON HAD HIS DOUBLET TORN, AND HOW CHOMBERG WAS STAINED BLUE.
45 CHICOT MORE THAN EVER KING OF FRANCE.
46 HOW CHICOT PAID A VISIT TO BUSSY, AND WHAT FOLLOWED.
47 THE CHESS OF M. CHICOT, AND THE CUP AND BALL OF M. QUELUS.
48 THE RECEPTION OF THE CHIEFS OF THE LEAGUE.
49 HOW KING AXED A CHIEF WHO WAS NEITHER THE DUC DE GUISE NOR M. D’ANJOU.
50 ETEOCLES AND POLYNICES.
51 HOW PEOPLE DO NOT ALWAYS LOSE THEIR TIME BY SEARCHING EMPTY DRAWERS.
52 VENTRE ST. GRIS.
53 THE FRIENDS.
54 BUSSY AND DIANA.
55 HOW BUSSY WAS OFFERED THREE HUNDRED PISTOLES FOR HIS HORSE
56 THE DIPLOMACY OF THE DUC D’ANJOU.
57 THE IDEAS OF THE DUC D’ANJOU.
58 A FLIGHT OF ANGEVINS.
59 ROLAND.
60 WHAT M. DE MONSOREAU CAME TO ANNOUNCE.
61 HOW THE KING LEARNED THE FLIGHT OF HIS BELOVED BROTHER
62 CHICOT AND THE QUEEN MOTHER AGREED, KING BEGAN TO AGREE WITH THEM.
63 IN WHICH IT IS PROVED THAT GRATITUDE WAS ONE OF ST. LUC’S VIRTUES.
64 THE PROJECT OF M. DE ST. LUC.
65 M. DE ST. LUC SHOWS M. DE MONSOREAU THE THRUST KING HAD TAUGHT HIM.
66 THE QUEEN-MOTHER ENTERS THE TOWN OF ANGERS, BUT NOT TRIUMPHANTLY.
67 LITTLE CAUSES AND GREAT EFFECTS.
68 M. DE MONSOREAU OPENED AND SHUT HIS EYES, PROVED HE WAS NOT DEAD.
69 M. LE DUC D’ANJOU WENT TO MÉRIDOR TO CONGRATULATE MADAME MONSOREAU
70 THE INCONVENIENCE OF LARGE LITTERS AND NARROW DOORS.
71 WHAT TEMPER THE KING WAS IN WHEN ST. LUC REAPPEARED AT THE LOUVRE.
72 WE MEET TWO IMPORTANT PERSONAGES WHOM WE LOST SIGHT FOR SOME TIME.
73 DIANA’S SECOND JOURNEY TO PARIS.
74 HOW THE AMBASSADOR OF THE DUC D’ANJOU ARRIVED AT THE LOUVRE
75 WHICH IS ONLY THE END OF THE PRECEDING ONE.
76 M. DE ST. LUC ACQUITTED HIMSELF OF THE COMMISSION GIVEN HIM BY BUSSY.
77 M. DE ST. LUC WAS MORE CIVILIZED THAN M. DE BUSSY
78 THE PRECAUTIONS OF M. DE MONSOREAU.
79 A VISIT TO THE HOUSE AT LES TOURNELLES.
80 THE WATCHERS.
81 HOW M. LE DUC D’ANJOU SIGNED, AND AFTER HAVING SIGNED, SPOKE.
82 A PROMENADE AT THE TOURNELLES.
83 IN WHICH CHICOT SLEEPS.
84 WHERE CHICOT WAKES.
85 THE FÊTE DIEU.
86 WHICH WILL ELUCIDATE THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER.
87 THE PROCESSION.
88 CHICOT THE FIRST.
89 INTEREST AND CAPITAL.
90 WHAT PASSED NEAR BASTILE WHILE CHICOT WAS PAYING DEBT TO Y. DE MAYENNE.
91 THE ASSASSINATION.
92 BROTHER GORENFLOT FOUND HIMSELF MORE BETWEEN A GALLOWS AND AN ABBEY.
93 CHICOT GUESSES WHY D’EPERNON HAD BLOOD ON FEET AND NONE IN HIS CHEEKS.
94 THE MORNING OF THE COMBAT.
95 THE FRIENDS OF BUSSY.
96 THE COMBAT.
97 THE END.