FRANÇOIS I., King of France.
HENRI II., his successor.
CATHERINE DE MÉDICIS, Queen to Henri II.
THE DAUPHIN, afterwards François II.
HENRI, his brother, afterwards Henri III.
MARY STUART, married to the Dauphin.
MARY, Queen of England.
DUC D'ORLÉANS, afterwards Charles IX.
MARGUERITE DE FRANCE, sister of Henri II.
MARGUERITE DE VALOIS, daughter of Henri II.
PRINCESS ÉLISABETH.
FRANÇOIS, Duc d'Alençon.
DUC DE GUISE, Lieutenant-General of France.
MONSEIGNEUR LE CARDINAL DE LORRAINE, his brother.
DUC D'AUMALE, brother of Duc de Guise.
MARQUIS D'ELBŒUF,}
MARQUIS DE VAUDEMONT,}
officers of Duc de Guise.
MONSIEUR DE BIRON,}
MONSIEUR DE THERMES,}
CONSTABLE ANNE DE MONTMORENCY.
FRANÇOIS DE MONTMORENCY, his son.
ANTOINE DE NAVARRE.
LOUIS DE BOURBON, Prince de Condé, his brother.
BARON DE PARDAILLAN, an officer of the king's troops.
DAVID, a Calvinistic minister.
DES AVENELLES, advocate, a traitor to the Calvinists.
BARON CASTELNAU DE CHALOSSES,}
COMTE DE VILLEMANGIS,}
condemned Calvinists.
COMTE DE MAZÈRES,}
BARON DE RAUNAY,}
MONSIEUR DE BRAGUELONNE, Lieutenant of Police.
MASTER ARPION, his secretary.
LIGNIÈRES, an agent of police.
ANTOINE DE MOUCHY, otherwise styled Démocharès, Doctor of
the Sorbonne and Canon of Noyon, Grand Inquisitor of the
Faith in France.
JEAN PEUQUOY, syndic of the weavers of St. Quentin.
PIERRE PEUQUOY, an armorer.
BABETTE, Pierre Peuquoy's sister.
LORD WENTWORTH, Governor of Calais.
LORD GREY, his brother-in-law, commanding the English archers.
LORD DERBY, an English officer.
SIR EDWARD FLEMING, herald of England.
ANSELME, a fisherman.
ANDRÉ, a page.
SISTER MONIQUE, Superior of the Benedictine convent at St.
Quentin.
HEINRICH SCHARFENSTEIN,}
PILLETROUSE,}
FRANTZ SCHARFENSTEIN,}
MALEMORT,}
officers and soldiers in Gabriel's
service.
LACTANCE,}
YVONNET,}
AMBROSIO,}
LANDRY,}
CHESNEL,}
veterans of the war in Lorraine, entering
the service of Vicomte d'Exmès.
AUBRIOT,}
CONTAMINE,}
BALU,}

ILLUSTRATIONS

PORTRAITS.

[Alexandre Dumas]

ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS

DRAWN AND ETCHED BY E. VAN MUYDEN.

[A King's Mistress]

[Mary Stuart and Gabriel]

CONTENTS

Chapter
[I. A Count's Son and a King's Daughter]
[II. A Bride who plays with Dolls]
[III. In Camp]
[IV. A King's Mistress]
[V. In the Apartments of the Royal Children]
[VI. Diane de Castro]
[VII. How the Constable said his Pater Noster]
[VIII. A Fortunate Tourney]
[IX. How One may pass close by his Destiny
without Knowing it]
[X. An Elegy during the Progress of a Comedy]
[XI. Peace or War?]
[XII. A Twofold Knave]
[XIII. The Acme of Happiness]
[XIV. Diane de Poitiers]
[XV. Catherine de Médicis]
[XVI. Lover or Brother?]
[XVII. The Horoscope]
[XVIII. The Last Resort of a Coquette]
[XIX. How Henri II. began to enjoy his Inheritance
during his Bather's Life]
[XX. Of the Usefulness of Friends]
[XXI. Wherein it is shown that Jealousy sometimes
abolished titles even before
the French Revolution]
[XXII. Describes the Most Convincing Proof
that a Woman can give that a Man
is not her Lover]
[XXIII. Useless Devotion]
[XXIV. Shows that Blood-Stains can never be
completely washed out]
[XXV. An Heroic Ransom]
[XXVI. Jean Peuquoy the Weaver]
[XXVII. Gabriel at Work]
[XXVIII. Wherein Martin-Guerre is not Clever]
[XXIX. Wherein Martin-Guerre is a Bungler]
[XXX. The Strategy of War]
[XXXI. Arnauld du Thill's Memory]
[XXXII. Theology]
[XXXIII. Sister Bénie]
[XXXIV. A Victorious Defeat]
[XXXV. Arnauld du Thill is still up to his
Little Tricks]
[XXXVI. Continuation of Master Arnauld du
Thill's Honorable Negotiations]
[XXXVII. Lord Wentworth]
[XXXVIII. The Amorous Jailer]
[XXXIX. The Armorer's House]