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