Table of Chapters

Every Chapter, In Order

Paris, 1718 — a conspiracy against the Regent, a soldier of fortune, and a love that complicates everything, in forty-three chapters.

These forty-three chapters dramatize the real, true Cellamare Conspiracy — a Spanish-backed plot to depose France's regent that came close enough to succeeding it triggered an actual European war once discovered. See the full overview page, or this site's piece on the real conspiracy for the full documented history behind the novel.

I
Captain Roquefinette
Chapter I
II
The Meeting
Chapter II
III
The Chevalier
Chapter III
IV
A Bal-masque of the Period.--THE Bat
Chapter IV
V
The Arsenal
Chapter V
VI
The Prince de Cellamare
Chapter VI
VII
Alberoni
Chapter VII
VIII
The Garret
Chapter VIII
IX
A Citizen of the Rue du Temps Perdu
Chapter IX
X
The Agreement
Chapter X
XI
Pros and Cons
Chapter XI
XII
The Denis Family
Chapter XII
XIII
The Crimson Ribbon
Chapter XIII
XIV
The Rue Des Bons Enfants
Chapter XIV
XV
Jean Buvat
Chapter XV
XVI
Bathilde
Chapter XVI
XVII
First Love
Chapter XVII
XVIII
The Consul Duilius
Chapter XVIII
XIX
The Abbe Dubois
Chapter XIX
XX
The Conspiracy
Chapter XX
XXI
The Order of the Honey-bee
Chapter XXI
XXII
The Queen of the Greenlanders
Chapter XXII
XXIII
The Duc de Richelieu
Chapter XXIII
XXIV
Jealousy
Chapter XXIV
XXV
A Pretext
Chapter XXV
XXVI
Counterplots
Chapter XXVI
XXVII
The Seventh Heaven
Chapter XXVII
XXVIII
Fenelon's Successor
Chapter XXVIII
XXIX
The Prince de Listhnay's Accomplice
Chapter XXIX
XXX
The Fox and the Goose
Chapter XXX
XXXI
A Chapter of Saint-simon
Chapter XXXI
XXXII
A Snare
Chapter XXXII
XXXIII
The Beginning of the End
Chapter XXXIII
XXXIV
Parliamentary Justice
Chapter XXXIV
XXXV
Man Proposes
Chapter XXXV
XXXVI
David and Goliath
Chapter XXXVI
XXXVII
The Savior of France
Chapter XXXVII
XXXVIII
God Disposes
Chapter XXXVIII
XXXIX
A Prime Minister's Memory
Chapter XXXIX
XL
Boniface
Chapter XL
XLI
The Three Visits
Chapter XLI
XLII
The Closet
Chapter XLII
XLIII
The Marriage in Extremis
Chapter XLIII