By Alexandre Dumas, Julie Rose, Lorenzo Carcaterra
A significant new translation of a forgotten classic
Paris, 1793, the onset of the fear. courageous Republican Maurice rescues a mys-terious and lovely girl from an indignant mob and is unknowingly drawn right into a mystery Royalist plot—a plot revolving round the imprisoned Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, and her enigmatic and fearless champion, the Knight of Maison-Rouge. choked with excellent twists, breakneck experience, conspiracies, swordplay, romance, and heroism, The Knight of Maison-Rouge is an exciting story of selflessness, love, and honor lower than the shadow of the guillotine. Dumas here's on the very peak of his powers, and with this primary and in simple terms glossy translation, readers can once more trip with the Knight of Maison-Rouge.
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THE RED CARNATION 22. SIMON THE CENSOR 23. THE GODDESS OF REASON 24. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER 25. THE NOTE 26. BLACK 27. THE MUSCADIN 28. THE KNIGHT OF MAISON-ROUGE 29. THE PATROL 30. CARNATION AND UNDERGROUND TUNNEL 31. THE SEARCH 32. FAITH SWORN 33. THE MORNING AFTER 34. THE CONCIERGERIE 35. THE HALL OF LOST FOOTSTEPS 36. CITIZEN THÉODORE 37. CITIZEN GRACCHUS 38. THE ROYAL CHILD 39. THE BOUQUET OF VIOLETS 40. THE PUITS-DE-NOÉ BY NIGHT 41. THE CLERK FROM THE WAR MINISTRY 42. THE TWO NOTES 43. DIXMER’S PREPARATIONS 44.
Aha! ” cried the chief of the volunteers. ” said Lorin. “Poetry is not your forte, my friend. I see I’ll have to address you in prose. ” “Madame,” said Maurice. “You see what’s happening and you can guess what’s going to happen; in five minutes, ten or twelve men are going to cut each other’s throats over you. ” “Monsieur,” replied the mystery woman, bringing her hands together. ” “Say no more, madame,” said Maurice. ” And letting go the hands of the beautiful stranger, which he had clutched, he addressed the National Guards: “Citizens, as your officer, as a patriot, and as a Frenchman, I order you to protect this woman.
Girondists— Fiction. 3. Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755–1793—Fiction. I. Rose, Julie. II. Title. 1 ALEXANDRE DUMAS Alexandre Dumas, who lived a life as dramatic as any depicted in his more than three hundred volumes of plays, novels, travel books, and memoirs, was born on July 24, 1802, in the town of Villers-Cotterêts, some fifty miles from Paris. He was the third child of Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie (who took the name of Dumas), a nobleman who distinguished himself as one of Napoleon’s most brilliant generals, and Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Labouret.