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.

The “Chevalier de Maison-Rouge,” though it deals with events subsequent to those covered by the earlier stories of the Marie Antoinette cycle, was written at an earlier date. In it we are introduced to a new set of personages, and see no more of the characters whose fortunes furnish the fictitious as distinguished from the historical interest of the earlier stories.
The months which elapsed between the execution of the King and the appearance in the Place de la Revolution of the ill-fated Marie Antoinette were thickly strewn with tragedy, particularly after the final conflict between the Gironde and the Mountain, and the decisive victory of the latter, resulting in the undisputed supremacy of the band of men in whom we now see the personification of the Reign of Terror.
Those portions of the narrative which describe the life of the queen at the Temple, and subsequently in the Conciergerie, are founded strictly upon fact. Of the treatment accorded to the little Dauphin by Simon, who is given much prominence in the story, it need only be said that it falls far short of the truth as it is to be found in numberless memoirs and documents. There is nothing in all history more touching and heartrending than the fate of this innocent child, who was literally done to death by sheer brutality in less than two years; nor is there any one of the excesses committed by the extreme revolutionists which has done more to cause posterity to fail to realize the vast benefits which mankind owes to the Revolution, in the face of the unnamable horrors which were perpetrated in its name.
The noble answer of Marie Antoinette to the unnatural charges brought against her by Hébert (not Simon) was actually made at her trial.

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