The House of the Combrays

by G. Lenotre

New York
Dodd, Mead, & Company
1902

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Contents

[PREFACE]		vii
[I]	THE TREACHERY OF JEAN-PIERRE QUERELLE	1
[II]	THE CAPTURE OF GEORGES CADOUDAL	21
[III]	THE COMBRAYS	44
[IV]	THE ADVENTURES OF D'ACHÉ	68
[V]	THE AFFAIR OF QUESNAY	101
[VI]	THE YELLOW HORSE	140
[VII]	MADAME ACQUET	178
[VIII]	PAYING THE PENALTY	216
[IX]	THE FATE OF D'ACHÉ	246
[X]	THE CHOUANS SET FREE	275

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PREFACE

AN OLD TOWER

One evening in the winter of 1868 or 1869, my father-in-law, Moisson, with whom I was chatting after dinner, took up a book that was lying on the table, open at the page where I had stopped reading, and said:

"Ah! you are reading Mme. de la Chanterie?"