| 'Why did they ever let these beasts enter?' | to face p. | [20] |
| 'Open, I want Papa.' 'Sire, I must not let in your Majesty' | " | [34] |
| Inga endures the Ordeal of the Hot Iron | " | [92] |
| Richard's last Charge on Bosworth Field | " | [168] |
| Frederick practises his Flute even when out Hunting | " | [224] |
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Frederick bids farewell to Katte | " | [240] |
| Marie Antoinette and Mozart | " | [250] |
| 'Led by the King and the Dauphin' | " | [262] |
| Marie Antoinette goes Hunting with the Dauphin | " | [270] |
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| Bonaparte commands his first Army | [9] |
| Bonaparte hears the 'Marseillaise' for the first time | [18] |
| Bonaparte in the Battery of the Fearless | [26] |
| Feeding the Gazelles with Tobacco | [31] |
| Napoleon shows the Portrait to the Generals | [39] |
| Jeanne and the King | [63] |
| Jeanne's rudeness to the Duke of Clèves | [70] |
| The Cardinal reads the King's Letter to Jeanne | [74] |
| 'To make him grow taller' | [84] |
| Marie Louise receives the Visits of Condolence | [102] |
| Two Spanish Gentlemen rescue the Queen | [116] |
| The Camarera Mayor gets her Ears boxed! | [120] |
| The Queen envies the Flemish Skaters | [127] |
| 'If capture is sure blow up the vessel,' she said | [131] |
| Lady Dalkeith's Journey to Dover | [135] |
| 'She only waved him out of her path' | [143] |
| 'Here, Madame,' said Mazarin, 'are the prizes for a lottery' | [149] |
| Herbert brings little Henry to his Wife's Tent | [161] |
| The King shows Elizabeth her Map of Destiny | [178] |
| 'Desolate and dismayed' | [187] |
| The Queen entrusts little Richard to the Cardinal | [191] |
| 'Elizabeth goes to the inn to meet the conspirators' | [195] |
| The Truss of Hay | [209] |
| The Wig-inspector at Work | [215] |
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'Good gracious, what a figure! Why, she looks like a little dwarf' | [220] |
| 'He stamped it down with his heavy boot' | [229] |
| Brother and Sister meet again | [248] |
| She delighted in her Dancing Lessons | [257] |
| The Swiss Guard present Arms to Marie Antoinette | [267] |
| 'Look, look!' she cried to her brothers and sisters | [278] |
| Richard and Isabel come to London | [284] |
| The King stops the Duel | [290] |
| Richard's last Farewell to Isabel | [295] |
| King Richard, Duke Henry and Math the Greyhound | [298] |
If you look out of your window in a clear dawn on the French Riviera you may, if you are fortunate, see, far away to the south, a faint mountain range hanging on the sea, and if you do see it, it is a sight so beautiful that you will never forget it. The mountain range belongs to Corsica, and under its shadow was born the most wonderful man the world has ever seen—Napoleon.