Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge

THE MARIE ANTOINETTE ROMANCES.
LE CHEVALIER DE MAISON-ROUGE.
OH, HOW LONG IT IS SINCE I HAVE SEEN ANY FLOWERS! Drawn and etched by E. Abot. Chevalier de Maison-Rouge.
CHEVALIER DE MAISON-ROUGE.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS.
BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
1897.
Copyright, 1890, 1894 , By Little, Brown, and Company.
University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
The Chevalier de Maison-Rouge, though it deals with events subsequent to those covered by the earlier stories of the Marie Antoinette cycle, was written at an earlier date. In it we are introduced to a new set of personages, and see no more of the characters whose fortunes furnish the fictitious as distinguished from the historical interest of the earlier stories.
The months which elapsed between the execution of the King and the appearance in the Place de la Révolution of the ill-fated Marie Antoinette were thickly strewn with tragedy, particularly after the final conflict between the Gironde and the Mountain, and the decisive victory of the latter, resulting in the undisputed supremacy of the band of men in whom we now see the personification of the Reign of Terror.