Chapter I: Prologue: The Prussians on the Rhine

I. From the Hôtel de la Poste to the Hôtel de la Lanterne 7

II. The Citizeness Teutch 15

III. Euloge Schneider 23

IV. Eugene de Beauharnais 31

V. Mademoiselle de Brumpt 38

VI. Master Nicholas 49

VII. Filial Love, or the Wooden Leg 54

VIII. The Provocation 61

IX. In which Charles is Arrested 67

X. Schneider's Journey 73

XI. The Marriage Proposal 76

XII. Saint-Just 80

XIII. The Wedding of Euloge Schneider 87

XIV. Wishes 92

XV. The Count de Sainte-Hermine 99

XVI. The Foraging Cap 106

XVII. Pichegru 113

XVIII. Charles's Reception 119

XIX. The Spy 125

XX. The Dying Man's Prophecy 132

XXI. The Night Before the Battle 139

XXII. The Battle 144

XXIII. After the Battle 150

XXIV. Citizen Fenouillot, Commercial Traveller for Champagne 155

XXV. Chasseur Falou and Corporal Faraud 161

XXVI. The Prince's Envoy 167

XXVII. Pichegru's Reply 173

XXVIII. The Drum-Head Marriage 181

XXIX. The Prussian Artillery for Six Hundred Francs 190

XXX. The Organ 196

XXXI. In which the Organ-Grinder's Plan Begins to Develop 202

XXXII. The Toast 207

XXXIII. The Order of the Day 212

XXXIV. A Chapter which is but One with the Following Chapter 219

XXXV. In which Abatucci Fulfils the Mission that he
has Received from his General, and Charles that
which he Received from God 224

THE THIRTEENTH VENDÉMIAIRE

I. A Bird's-Eye View 230

II. A Glimpse of Paris--The Incroyables 234

III. The Merveilleuses 238

IV. The Sections 242

V. The President of the Section le Peletier 247

VI. Three Leaders 253

VII. General Roundhead and the Chief of the
Companions of Jehu 256

VIII. The Man in the Green Coat 261

IX. An Incroyable and a Merveilleuse 265

X. Two Portraits 270

XI. Aspasia's Toilet 275

XII. For which Voltaire and Rousseau are to Blame 278

XIII. The Eleventh Vendémiaire 282

XIV. The Twelfth Vendémiaire 286

XV. The Night of the 12th and the 13th Vendémiaire 290

XVI. The Salon of Madame de Staël, the Swedish Ambassadress 293

XVII. The Hotel of the Rights of Man 306

XVIII. Citizen Bonaparte 310

XIX. Citizen Garat 314

XX. The Outposts 320

XXI. The Steps of Saint-Roch 325

XXII. The Rout 329

XXIII. The Victory 333

XXIV. The Sword of the Vicomte de Beauharnais 336

XXV. The Map of Marengo 340

XXVI. Marie-Rose-Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie,
Vicomtesse Beauharnais 345

XXVII. Where an Angel Steps a Miracle is Performed 349

XXVIII. The Sibyl 354

XXIX. Fortune-Telling 360

XXX. The Pretended Incroyable 365

XXXI. "Macbeth, thou Shalt be King!" 370

XXXII. The Man of the Future 376

THE EIGHTEENTH FRUCTIDOR

I. A Glance at the Provinces 383

II. The Traveller 388

III. The Chartreuse of Seillon 393

IV. The Traitor 398

V. The Judgment 402

VI. Diane of Fargas 407

VII. What was Talked About for More than Three Months
in the Little Town of Nantua 412

VIII. A New Companion is Received into the Society of Jehu
under the Name of Alcibiades 417

IX. The Comte de Fargas 422

X. The Trouillasse Tower 426

XI. Brother and Sister 431

XII. In which the Reader will Meet some Old Acquaintances 436

XIII. Citizens and Messieurs 441

XIV. The Cause of Citizen-General Bonaparte's Ill-Humor 446

XV. Augereau 452

XVI. The Citizen-Directors 458

XVII. Mademoiselle de Sainte-Amour's Sick-Headache 465

XVIII. The Mission of Mademoiselle de Fargas 470

XIX. The Travellers 476

XX. "The Best of Friends Must Part" 482

XXI. Citizen François Goulin 487

XXII. Colonel Hulot 492

XXIII. The Battle 497

XXIV. Portia 502

XXV. Cadoudal's Idea 507

XXVI. The Road to the Scaffold 513

XXVII. The Execution 518

XXVIII. The Seventh Fructidor 524

XXIX. Jean-Victor Moreau 530

XXX. The Eighteenth Fructidor 536

XXXI. The Temple 542

XXXII. The Exiles 548

XXXIII. The Journey 553

XXXIV. The Embarkation 559

XXXV. Farewell, France! 566

THE EIGHTH CRUSADE

I. Saint-Jean-d'Acre 572

II. The Prisoners 577

III. The Carnage 583

IV. From Ancient Days to Our Own 588

V. Sidney Smith 594

VI. Ptolemais 601

VII. The Scouts 607

VIII. The Beautiful Daughters of Nazareth 613

IX. The Battle of Nazareth 619

X. Mount Tabor 624

XI. The Bullet Merchant 631

XII. How Citizen Pierre-Claude Faraud was made
a Sub-Lieutenant 635

XIII. The Last Assault 640

XIV. The Last Bulletin 644

XV. Vanished Dreams 648

XVI. The Retreat 652

XVII. Wherein we see that Bonaparte's Presentiments
did not Deceive Him 657

XVIII. Aboukir 662

XIX. Departure 668