illustrated with photogravures and engravings from paintings by Maurice Leloir [and others]

v. 1-2. The Count of Monte Cristo.--
v. 3-4. The two Dianas.--
v. 5-6. The page of the Duke of Savoy.--
v. 7. Margaret de Valois.--
v. 8. Chicot the jester.--
v. 9. The forty-five guardsmen.--
v. 10. The three guardsmen.--
v. 11. Twenty years after.--
v. 12. The vicomte de Bragelonne.--
v. 13. Ten years later.--
v. 14. Louise de la Valliere.--
v. 15. The man in the iron mask.--
v. 16. The Chevalier d'Harmental.--
v. 17. The regent's daughter.--
v. 18. Joseph Balsamo.--
v. 19. The memoirs of a physician.--
v. 20. The queen's necklace.--
v. 21. Taking the Bastile.--
v. 22. The Countess de Charny.--
v. 23. The Chevalier de Maison Rouge.--
v. 24-25. The whites and the blues.

Excerpt from Joseph Balsamo, Vol. 1: Being the Part of the Memoirs of a Physician

The leading events of the last years of the long and disastrous reign of Louis XV. Are described in these volumes with the author's accustomed accu racy and fulness of detail. During those years the unhappy kingdom of France seems to have taken its longest strides towards the end which keen observers had long seen to be inevitable.

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