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[290] Confrontations de Madame de la Motte avec Rétaux de Villette.

[291] “Sommaire pour la Comtesse de la Motte,” pp. 17, 18.

[292] See note, p. 164, vol. i. of “Lettres et Documents Inédits de Louis XVI. et Marie-Antoinette,” par M. Feuillet de Conches.

[293] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. p. 330.

[294] Ibid. vol. ii. p. 329, _et seq._

[295] “Requête pour le Sieur Marc-Antoine Rétaux de Villette,” p. 10.

[296] Confrontations du Cardinal de Rohan avec Madame de la Motte.

[297] “Compte rendu de ce qui s’est passé au Parlement,” etc., p. 97.

[298] “Compte rendu de ce qui s’est passé au Parlement,” etc., p. 85.

[299] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. pp. 31, 71.

[300] Ibid. vol. i. p. 408.

[301] Ibid. vol. i. p. 449.

[302] Ibid. vol. ii. pp. 18, 51, 77; and “Mémoires Justificatifs.”

[303] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. pp. 24, 27, 29.

[304] “Mémoires Justificatifs,” p. 237. To have tampered with the records, would have been exceedingly difficult, as the reader will perceive by referring to the extract from the National Archives, given at p. 395 _et seq._ of the Appendix to this volume.

[305] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. p. 90.

[306] Ibid. vol. ii. p. 109.

[307] Ibid. vol. ii. pp. 66, 67.

[308] Arrêt du Parlement. “Collection complète de tous les Mémoires qui ont paru dans la fameuse Affaire du Collier,” etc., p. 24.

[309] This refers to its condition in the year 1867. It has since been renovated.

[310] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. p. 93, _et seq._

[311] The “Tournelle” was the Chamber that had the judging of criminal matters.

[312] “Mémoires de Marie-Antoinette,” by Madame Campan, vol. ii. p. 290.

[313] Correspondance Inédite de la Comtesse de Sabran et du Chevalier de Boufflers (Paris 1875), p. 121.

[314] “Mémoires pour servir,” etc., par l’Abbé Georgel, vol. ii. pp. 179, 196.

[315] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. p. 96.

[316] “Compte rendu de ce qui s’est passé au Parlement,” etc., p. 114.

[317] “To-day,” writes M. Berryer, in 1837, “when my fancy carries itself back to fifty years or so ago”—the very date of the Necklace trial—“towards the Palais de Justice, I recognize neither the same antique structure, nor the same internal divisions, nor those innumerable jurisdictions of which it was the seat, nor that inconceivable flood of persons interested, whose tumultuous waves were agitated every day for hours together, and more especially from noon until two o’clock.

“Outside the edifice was a large staircase, crowded with shops piled one above the other, flanked by the offices of writers, starting from the angle of the handsome railings, on the side of the Pont-au-Change, extending to the circle of the old Cour du Mai, and serving as a girdle to the Sainte-Chapelle, a confused mass of steps and stalls pictured with such animation in the Lutrin of Boileau. Who does not recollect the inquiry made by the countryman of an _avocat_, laden with several bags of briefs, on catching sight of this grotesque staircase, ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘will you be kind enough to tell me what that building is?’ ‘It is a mill,’ replied the over-worked _avocat_. ‘Ah! I guessed as much,’ remarked the countryman, ‘from seeing so many donkeys carrying their sacks to it.’

“Under the immense vaulted galleries, and also surrounding all the columns of the great hall, were more rows of shops filled with merchandise of all kinds, which had caused the name _Palais Marchand_ to be given to this temple of justice. The Parliament alone occupied seven large halls—the grand chamber, the _tournelle_, the three halls of inquests, and the halls of requests. The grand chamber, with its arched roof springing from gilded brackets, was an austere-looking place. Perched above were two galleries reserved for the accommodation of great personages, and which I have seen occupied, among others, by the Emperor Joseph II., the unfortunate Gustavus, king of Sweden, and by the Count and Countess du Nord, since Emperor and Empress of Russia.”—_Souvenirs de M. Berryer_, vol. ii. p. 25, _et seq._

[318] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. pp. 96-9.

[319] “Compte rendu de ce qui s’est passé au Parlement,” etc., p. 115.

[320] Nothing of the kind is to be found in the records of the countess’s examinations.

[321] “Compte rendu de ce qui s’est passé au Parlement,” etc., p. 115.

[322] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. p. 100, _et seq._

[323] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. p. 118.

[324] “Anecdotes du règne de Louis XVI.,” vol. i. p. 410.

[325] “Mémoires pour servir,” etc., par l’Abbé Georgel, vol. ii. p. 197.

[326] “Anecdotes du règne de Louis XVI.,” vol. i. p. 400.

[327] “Compte rendu de ce qui s’est passé au Parlement,” etc., p. 118.

[328] “Correspondance Secrète Inédite sur Louis XVI., Marie-Antoinette,” etc., vol. i. p. 615.

[329] “Correspondance Inédite de la Comtesse de Sabran et du Chevalier de Boufflers” (Paris 1875).

[330] “Memoirs of Marie Antoinette,” by Madame Campan, vol. ii. p. 295. In the doubtful Memoirs of the Princess de Lamballe, we find that Princess asserting she had had in her possession documentary evidence of the immense sums spent by the Princess de Condé in corrupting the judges and other persons. More than a million francs were expended, she says, by the families of Rohan and Condé in this way. See “Mémoires relatifs à la Famille Royale de France,” etc., vol. i. pp. 306-7.

[331] “Anecdotes du règne de Louis XVI.,” vol. i. p. 412.

[332] Extract from the Imperial Archives given in M. Campardon’s “Marie-Antoinette et le procès du Collier,” p. 149.

[333] “Mémoires du Baron de Besenval,” vol. iii. p. 135.

[334] “Correspondance Inédite de la Comtesse de Sabran,” etc., p. 123.

[335] “Compte rendu de ce qui s’est passé au Parlement,” p. 123.

[336] “Memoirs of Marie-Antoinette,” by Madame Campan, vol. ii. p. 293.

[337] “Compte rendu de ce qui s’est passé au Parlement,” etc., p. 121.

[338] “Anecdotes du règne de Louis XVI.,” vol. i. p. 412.

[339] Spite of this express order the document is not to be found among the other papers relating to the “Affaire du Collier,” preserved in the National Archives.

[340] The letters G A L, with which Count de la Motte was sentenced to be branded, were doubtless intended as an abbreviation of the word _Galérien_, or galley slave.

[341] This branding of the Countess with the letter V, was designed to signify _Voleuse_, or thief.

[342] “Arrêt du Parlement,” preserved in the National Archives, X² 2576.

[343] “Mémoires Historiques et Politiques du règne de Louis XVI.,” par l’Abbé Soulavie, vol. vi. p. 73.

[344] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. pp. 120-1.

[345] “Correspondance Secrète Inédite sur Louis XVI., Marie-Antoinette,” etc., vol. ii. p. 63.

[346] “Memorial for the Count de Cagliostro.”

[347] “Correspondance Inédite de la Comtesse de Sabran,” etc., p. 125.

[348] “Compte rendu de ce qui s’est passé au Parlement,” etc., p. 153, _et seq._

[349] “Memorial for the Count de Cagliostro,” p. 27.

[350] “Mémoire Historique des Intrigues de la Cour,” etc., par Rétaux de Villette, p. 70.

[351] “Memorial for the Count de Cagliostro,” p. 27.

[352] Hon. W. Eden to Mr. Pitt, in “Lord Auckland’s Journals and Correspondence,” vol. i. p. 132.

[353] “Memoirs of Marie-Antoinette,” by Madame Campan, vol. ii. p. 293.

[354] Autograph letter from Marie-Antoinette to the Duchess de Polignac, in the collection of M. Feuillet de Conches.

[355] An inadvertent mistake has been here made by the queen. It was the cardinal who received the rose. This incidental error of the queen’s furnishes a convincing proof, if any were needed, that she played no part in the midnight interview with the cardinal.

[356] “Lettres et Documents Inédits de Louis XVI. et Marie-Antoinette,” par M. Feuillet de Conches, vol. i. p. 161.

[357] “Memoirs of Marie-Antoinette,” by Madame Campan, vol. ii. p. 23.

[358] Ibid., vol. ii. p. 291.

[359] “Correspondance Inédite de la Comtesse de Sabran et du Chevalier de Boufflers,” p. 125.

[360] “Compte rendu de ce qui s’est passé au Parlement,” etc., p. 157.

[361] “Journals and Correspondence of Lord Auckland,” vol. i. p. 126.

[362] “Memorial for the Count de Cagliostro.”

[363] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. pp. 139-142.

[364] “Journals and Correspondence of Lord Auckland,” vol. i p. 132. A wit of the time observed, in allusion to the countess’s descent from an illegitimate branch of the Valois, “that she ought not to have been marked on the left shoulder, as it was on this side that she hung on to the Bourbons.”—See “Correspondance Secrète Inédite sur Louis XVI., Marie-Antoinette,” etc., vol. ii. p. 52.

[365] “Correspondance Inédite de la Comtesse de Sabran et du Chevalier de Boufflers,” pp. 142-3.

[366] “Anecdotes du règne de Louis XVI.” vol. i. p. 415, _et seq._

[367] “Mémoire Historique des Intrigues de la Cour,” etc., par Rétaux de Villette, p. 69.

[368] “Mémoires du Baron de Besenval,” vol. iii. p. 140.

[369] “Mémoires Justificatifs de la Comtesse de la Motte,” p. 134.

[370] Autograph letter from the officer of the marshalsea at Boulogne to the Baron de Breteuil, in the collection of M. Feuillet de Conches.

[371] See the Countess’s “Mémoires Justificatifs,” and “Mémoires Inédits du Comte de la Motte.”

[372] Report dated September, 1785, in the archives of the French Police, quoted by Louis Blanc in his “History of the French Revolution.” Brussels, vol. ii. p. 129.

[373] “Compte rendu de ce qui s’est passé au Parlement,” etc., pp. 65, 66.

[374] “Mémoires Justificatifs de la Comtesse de la Motte,” pp. 103, _et seq._

[375] “Correspondance Secrète Inédite sur Louis XVI., Marie-Antoinette,” etc., vol. ii. p. 33.

[376] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. pp. 393-4.

[377] “Mémoires Justificatifs de la Comtesse de la Motte,” pp. 152, _et seq._

[378] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. p. 143, _et seq._ The Salpêtrière at the present day is a refuge for aged and infirm women, and accommodates no less than 4369 inmates. Madame de la Motte’s cell is one of the lions of the place shown to visitors.

[379] “Journals and Correspondence of Lord Auckland,” vol. i. p. 397.

[380] _Morning Chronicle_ newspaper, December 29, 1786.

[381] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. pp. 143-197. We suspect the whole of this key business to be fudge.

[382] “Lettres et Documents Inédits de Louis XVI. et Marie-Antoinette,” par M. Feuillet de Conches, vol. i. p. 171.

[383] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. pp. 205, 212.

[384] “Journals and Correspondence of Lord Auckland,” vol. i. p. 420. There are certain discrepancies with respect to the date of the duchess’s visit. Mr. Storer, writing to the Hon. Mr. Eden, on May 11, 1787, says, “the Polignacs have arrived; on Tuesday they went to the opera,” etc. In contradiction to this we have a letter written by Marie-Antoinette, and dated April 11, exactly a month previous, evidently addressed to the duchess while she was in England, and inquiring whether she had found any benefit from the Bath waters. It is possible that a wrong date has been affixed to the last-mentioned letter subsequently to its having been written, for Marie-Antoinette left most of her letters undated. See “Lettres et Documents Inédits de Louis XVI. et Marie-Antoinette,” vol. i.

[385] “Correspondance Secrète Inédite sur Louis XVI., Marie-Antoinette,” etc., vol. ii. p. 157.

[386] It was commonly believed at the time, that the authorities not only connived at the countess’s escape, but abetted it. It is said that at the moment of her departure from the Salpêtrière, the superior jokingly said to her, “Farewell, Madame, take great care you are not remarked” (meaning also re-marked with the branding-iron).

[387] Nogent-sur-Seine in the department of the Aube.

[388] It will be noticed that the countess makes no mention of how she obtained the necessary funds to undertake this journey.

[389] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. pp. 219-230.

[390] “Mémoires du Comte Beugnot,” vol. i. p. 43.

[391] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. p. 230, _et seq._

[392] “Mémoires Justificatifs de la Comtesse de la Motte,” p. 210.

[393] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. p. 26.

[394] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself” (see title-page).

[395] “Correspondance Secrète Inédite sur Louis XVI., Marie-Antoinette,” etc., vol. ii. p. 155.

[396] See _ante_, p. 303.

[397] “Correspondance Secrète Inédite sur Louis XVI., Marie-Antoinette,” etc., vol. ii. pp. 157, 166.

[398] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. p. 412.

[399] See “Julie Philosophe, ou le Bon Patriote,” vol. ii. p. 17.

[400] “Correspondance Secrète Inédite sur Louis XVI., Marie-Antoinette,” etc., vol. ii. p. 237.

[401] “Journals and Correspondence of Lord Auckland,” vol. i. p. 304.

[402] “Mémoires Inédits du Comte de la Motte,” par L. Lacour.

[403] “Memoirs of Marie-Antoinette,” by Madame Campan, vol. ii. pp. 107-8.

[404] “Correspondance Secrète Inédite sur Louis XVI. Marie-Antoinette,” etc., vol. ii. p. 163.

[405] “La Princesse de Lamballe: Sa Vie—Sa Mort,” p. 246.

[406] “Mémoires relatifs à la Famille Royale de France,” vol. i. p. 315, _et seq._

[407] Husband and wife here contradict each other point blank. The count in his posthumous “Mémoires” maintains that the MS. was not surrendered to Calonne; the countess says it was—in all probability another falsehood, concocted by her, to induce the public to believe that the MS. had not been already sold to the French court.

[408] “Mémoires Inédits du Comte de la Motte-Valois,” Paris, 1858. This work, edited by M. Louis Lacour, is stated by him to have been printed from a duplicate copy of the manuscript Mémoires written by M. de la Motte in 1825, at the instigation of the French minister of police. Everything referring to the Necklace affair had been abstracted from these manuscripts while they were in possession of the authorities. See _post_, p. 366.

[409] “Correspondance Secrète Inédite sur Louis XVI., Marie-Antoinette,” etc., vol ii. p. 481.

[410] “Histoire de Marie-Antoinette,” par E. et J. de Goncourt, p. 293.

[411] See _ante_, p. 45.

[412] Autograph letter from Count de la Motte to Louis XVI., in the collection of M. Feuillet de Conches.

[413] See the judgment of the first tribunal, _post_, p. 356.

[414] “Vie de Jeanne de St.-Remi de Valois, Comtesse de la Motte, écrite par elle-même.”

[415] Extract from an autograph letter from Count de la Motte to Louis XVI., in the collection of M. Feuillet de Conches.

[416] “Mémoires Inédits du Comte de la Motte,” pp. 237-9.

[417] The work was really printed in London, and, with the exception of its supplement, before the death of the countess in August, 1792.

[418] “Memoirs of Marie-Antoinette,” by Madame Campan, vol. ii. p. 194, _et seq._

[419] “Mémoires Secrets pour servir à l’Histoire de la dernière année du règne de Louis XVI.,” par A. F. Bertrand de Moleville, vol. ii. p. 218, _et seq._

[420] “Memoirs of Marie-Antoinette,” by Madame Campan, vol. ii. p. 194.

[421] “Procès de Marie-Antoinette,” p. 117.

[422] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol i. p. 221.

[423] “Carlyle’s Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,” vol. iv. p. 37.

[424] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” Supplement, vol. ii. p. 58. The Princess de Lamballe was in England in June 1791, and not improbably set on foot the negotiations here referred to.

[425] “Mémoires Inédits du Comte de la Motte,” par L. Lacour, p. 190, _et seq._

[426] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. Supplement, p. 61.

[427] “Gentleman’s Magazine,” vol. lxi. p. 783.

[428] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. i. p. 442. “Mémoires Inédits du Comte de la Motte,” p. 322.

[429] Autograph letter from Madame de Bracque, Abbess of Jarcy, in the collection of M. Feuillet de Conches.

[430] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. ii. p. 377.

[431] “Mémoire Historique,” etc., par Rétaux de Villette, p. 3.

[432] “Correspondance Secrète Inédite sur Louis XVI.,” etc., vol. ii. p. 346.

[433] “Lettres et Documents Inédits de Louis XVI. et Marie-Antoinette,” vol. i. p. 171.

[434] “Marie-Antoinette et le Procès du Collier,” p. 23.

[435] “Mémoires du Comte Beugnot,” vol, i. p. 6.

[436] See _post_, p. 363.

[437] Though it bears the imprint of Venice on the title-page, this “Mémoire” was possibly a production of the unlicensed Paris press of the period.

[438] So stated by Carlyle in the rhapsodical prophecy which he puts into the mouth of Cagliostro, and which he subsequently says all turned out “literally true.” See vol. iv. pp. 57, 60, of his Essays.

[439] “Lettres et Documents Inédits de Louis XVI. et Marie-Antoinette,” par M. Feuillet de Conches, vol. i. p. 165.

[440] “Mémoires sur les Prisons de Paris sous Robespierre,” vol. ii. p. 88.

[441] Carlyle’s French Revolution, Leipzig, vol. iii. p. 341.

[442] “Mémoires sur les Prisons de Paris,” etc., vol. ii. p. 78.

[443] “Carlyle’s Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,” vol. iv. p. 58.

[444] Autograph letters of the Abbess of St. Bénoît to the Baron de Breteuil, in the collection of M. Feuillet de Conches.

[445] “Marie-Antoinette et le Procès du Collier,” par E. Campardon, p. 156, _note_.

[446] “Correspondance Secrète Inédite sur Louis XVI.,” etc., vol. ii. p. 463.

[447] Biographie Universelle; art. de Rohan.

[448] Ibid., art. Cagliostro.

[449] “Procès de la Reine” (Deux Amis), vol xi. pp. 251, 381.

[450] “Villate, Causes Secrètes de la Révolution de Thermidor,” p. 179.

[451] Weber’s “Mémoires concernant Marie-Antoinette,” vol. i. p. 6.

[452] “Deux Amis,” vol. xi. p. 301. Carlyle’s “French Revolution,” Leipzig, vol. iii. pp. 244-7.

[453] “Maria-Theresia und Marie-Antoinette,” von A. Ritter von Arneth, p. 107.

[454] Carlyle’s “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays,” vol. iv. pp. 30, 31.

[455] _Moniteur_ for 1792, No. 220.

[456] “Mémoires Inédits du Comte de la Motte,” pp. 254-282.

[457] “Les Crimes de Marat et des autres égorgeurs, ou, ma Résurrection,” par P. A. L. Maton de la Varenne, pp. 67-8.

[458] “Mémoires Inédits du Comte de la Motte,” pp. 286-302.

[459] “Mémoires Inédits du Comte de la Motte,” pp. 303-362.

[460] “Mémoires Inédits du Comte de la Motte,” p. 365.

[461] “Mémoires Inédits du Comte de la Motte,” p. 375.

[462] “Lettres et Documents Inédits de Louis XVI. et Marie-Antoinette,” vol. i. p. 176.

[463] “Journal de Paris,” Nov. 12, 1831.

[464] “Marie-Antoinette et le Procès du Collier,” par E. Campardon, p. 200.

[465] This refers to the year 1866.

[466] See _ante_, p. 64.

[467] See _ante_, p. 61 _et seq._

[468] See _ante_, p. 148 for particulars of the stones which the Count brought back with him to France.

[469] See _ante_, p. 150.

[470] Beugnot in his “Mémoires” furnishes us with a description of this _bonbonnière_, to which, it will be remembered, both the Count and Countess make allusion. (See _ante_, pp. 153, 223-4.) It would appear, from what Beugnot says, that it was never in the cardinal’s possession, though it had been got up to play a part in the fraud which was being practised upon him. Beugnot insinuates that had the officers of justice been more expeditious in their movements, they would have found in Madame de la Motte’s jewel-box this _bonbonnière_, which he tells us he had admired there a dozen times. “It was,” remarks he, “a black tortoiseshell box, surrounded by large diamonds, exactly alike, and of the finest water; the subject on the top of the box was a rising sun which dispersed the mists on the horizon; you touched a spring, and under this first subject was found a portrait of the queen, clothed in a simple white robe (without any other ornament on her head than her hair, raised up in the fashion of the period, and two earrings falling on her neck one on either side), and holding a rose in her hand, precisely in the same attitude and costume as the character played by Mdlle. d’Oliva in the park of Versailles. They would, moreover, have found in this box two of the cardinal’s letters, from which they would have seen that the De la Mottes had made him hope for it, as a token of reconciliation with the queen, and would have seen, too, that they had given him all the details of this magnificent jewel.”—Mémoires du Comte Beugnot, vol. i. p. 89.

Beugnot is apparently wrong in supposing that this _bonbonnière_ escaped the vigilance of the officers of justice, as among the documents relating to the “Affaire du Collier,” preserved in the National Archives (X² 2576), is a memorandum without heading, date, or signature, which sets forth, that “among the effects found at Bar-sur-Aube in the house of Madame de la Motte, was a box with a portrait of the queen holding a rose,” which portrait, it goes on to say, the Sieur Malus, treasurer of finance, pretended he had orders to withdraw, but having been challenged by the Sieur Guichard, the procureur-général’s substitute, to produce his orders, he could only bring forward a letter addressed to him by the contrôleur-général; whereupon the Sieur Guichard notifies that on the morrow he will render an account of the above facts to the procureur-général, who there is every reason to believe will bring them to the notice of his majesty’s keeper of the seals and the Baron de Breteuil.

[471] “Mémoires Justificatifs de la Comtesse de la Motte,” p. 39.

[472] These references are to the present volume.

[473] See his “Histoire de la Révolution Française,” vol. ii.

[474] “Life of the Countess de la Motte, by herself,” vol. i. p. 349.

[475] No. X² 2576. See also the Appendix to Campardon’s “Marie-Antoinette et le Procès du Collier,” pp. 271-389.

[476] See _ante_, p. 179.

[477] M. de Lescure in “La Princesse de Lamballe, Sa Vie—Sa Mort,” pp. 189-190.

[478] The King.

[479] It should be mentioned that with a single exception—a letter of Madame de la Motte’s, which is given on page 187 _et seq._ of this work—none of the documents herein referred to are now in existence. They are believed to have been destroyed during the Revolution.

[480] “Genealogical History of the House of France,” by Father Anselme, vol. i. p. 136; “History of France,” by the President Henault, third edition, in quarto, p. 315.

[481] In accordance with French law this proceeding rendered him legitimate.

[482] “Marie-Antoinette et le procès du Collier,” p. 109, _et seq._

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London Managers run eagerly after the plays of modern French Dramatists, and produce them with much success at our principal Theatres, whereas London Publishers rarely venture upon issuing Translations of new French Novels. Yet the latter are equally good with the former, which indeed they commonly suggest. To test whether English novel readers, unconversant with the French language, are not as appreciative of clever works of fiction as English playgoers are of clever dramas and _operas bouffes_, this series of Translations of some of the very best and newest French Novels has been undertaken. It may be mentioned that especial care has been bestowed on the selection, only those works of an unobjectionable character, and which can be presented to the English reader in an unabridged form, having been chosen.

The following list of the earlier volumes of the series comprises several works which have met with an immense sale in France, and have been translated into most European languages:—

FROMONT THE YOUNGER AND RISLER THE ELDER. By A. DAUDET.

SAMUEL BROHL AND PARTNER. By V. CHERBULIEZ.

DRAMA OF THE RUE DE LA PAIX. By A. BELOT.

MAUGARS JUNIOR. By A. THEURIET.

WAYWARD DOSIA, AND THE GENEROUS DIPLOMATIST. By HENRY GRÉVILLE.

A NEW LEASE OF LIFE, AND SAVING A DAUGHTER’S DOWRY. By E. ABOUT.

COLOMBA, AND CARMEN. By P. MÉRIMÉE.

A WOMAN’S DIARY, AND THE LITTLE COUNTESS. By O. FEUILLET.

ODETTE’S MARRIAGE. By A. DELPIT.

THE TOWER OF PERCEMONT. By GEORGE SAND.

BLUE-EYED META HOLDENIS. By V. CHERBULIEZ.

THE GODSON OF A MARQUIS. By A. THEURIET.

ARIADNE, THE YOUNG CANTATRICE. By H. GRÉVILLE.

THE NOSE OF A NOTARY, and other Stories. By E. ABOUT.

JACK. By A. DAUDET, author of “FROMONT AND RISLER.”

DOCTOR CLAUDE. By HECTOR MALOT.

A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. By HENRY GRÉVILLE.

REMORSE. By TH. BENTZON.

JEAN TÊTEROL’S IDEA. By V. CHERBULIEZ.

GERARD’S CHOICE OF A WIFE. By A. THEURIET.

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