MARY STUART

By

Alexandre Dumas, Pere

From the Eight Volume set "Celebrated Crimes"

1910

CONTENTS

[MARY STUART—1587]

[CHAPTER I]

Some royal names are predestined to misfortune: in France, there is the name “Henry”. Henry I was poisoned, Henry II was killed in a tournament, Henry III and Henry IV were assassinated. As to Henry V, for whom the past is so fatal already, God alone knows what the future has in store for him.