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Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
Alexandre Dumas
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CHAPTER I Towards the end of the fifteenth century—that is to say, at the epoch
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CHAPTER II The world had now arrived at one of those supreme moments of history
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CHAPTER III RODERIGO LENZUOLO was born at Valencia, in Spain, in 1430 or 1431, and
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CHAPTER IV On the occasion of each new election to the papacy, it is the custom for
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CHAPTER V PIERO DEI MEDICI had, as we may remember, undertaken to hold the
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CHAPTER VI CHARLES learned all this news at Naples, and, tired of his late
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CHAPTER VII Matters went forward as Alexander had wished, and before the end of the
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CHAPTER VIII Caesar remained at Naples, partly to give time to the paternal grief to
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CHAPTER IX Everything from without was favouring Alexander’s encroaching policy,
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CHAPTER X The French army was now preparing to cross the Alps a second time, under
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CHAPTER XI One thing alone was wanting to assure the success of the vast projects
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CHAPTER XII Caesar’s ambition was only fed by victories: scarcely was he master of
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CHAPTER XIII The time had now come for the Duke of Valentinois to continue the
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CHAPTER XIV The Duke of Valentinois had continued, his road towards Citta di
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CHAPTER XV From the effect produced at Rome by Alexander’s death, one may imagine
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CHAPTER XVI Caesar was in prison for two years, always hoping that Louis XII would
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CHAPTER I It is possible that our reader, whose recollections may perhaps go back
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CHAPTER II The death of Henri IV led to new conflicts, in which although at first
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CHAPTER III Such crimes, of which we have only described a few, inspired horror in
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CHAPTER IV On the 15th May Cavalier set out from Tarnac at the head of one hundred
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CHAPTER V Meantime the date of Cavalier’s departure drew near. A town was to be
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CHAPTER VI At length Louis XIV, bowed beneath the weight of a reign of sixty years,
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CHAPTER VII The Protestants, as we have said, hailed the golden dawn of the
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CHAPTER VIII For some days Avignon had its assassins, as Marseilles had had them, and
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CHAPTER IX It was on Saturday that the white flag was hoisted at Nimes. The next
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CHAPTER I Some royal names are predestined to misfortune: in France, there is the
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CHAPTER II Among the lords who had followed Mary Stuart to Scotland was, as we have
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CHAPTER III Directly she was delivered, Mary sent for James Melville, her usual
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CHAPTER IV Meanwhile Bothwell had levied some troops, and thought himself in a
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CHAPTER V At the time appointed the queen was ready: she had suffered so much at
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CHAPTER VI The queen came out of her room only in the evening, to take her place at
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CHAPTER VII A week after the events we have related, as nine o’clock in the evening
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CHAPTER VIII On landing on the shores of England, the Queen of Scotland found
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CHAPTER IX Queen Mary had known the decree of the commissioners these two months.
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CHAPTER X Two hours after the execution, the body and the head were taken into the
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CHAPTER I On Sunday, the 26th of November, 1631, there was great excitement in the
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CHAPTER II Urbain Granadier was not satisfied with the arrogant demonstration by
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CHAPTER III Hardly had tranquillity been restored when Mignon, Duthibaut, Menuau,
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CHAPTER IV That evening Grandier asked the bailiff for an audience. At first he had
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CHAPTER V Since October 13th, the day on which the demons had been expelled, life
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CHAPTER VI The next day, November 25th, the bailiff and the majority of the
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CHAPTER VII The last two exorcisms had been so much talked about in the town, that
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CHAPTER VIII The exposure of the plot was most prejudicial to the prosperity of the
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CHAPTER IX For four months Grandier languished in prison, and, according to the
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CHAPTER X The next day a still more extraordinary scene took place. While M. de
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CHAPTER XI The mode of torture employed at Loudun was a variety of the boot, and
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CHAPTER XII This time it was not the man who was executed who was guilty, but the
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CHAPTER I Before beginning our story, we must warn the reader that it will not be
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CHAPTER II In 1658, at the corner of the streets Git-le-Coeur and Le Hurepoix (the
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CHAPTER III ANGELIQUE-LOUISE DE GUERCHI was a woman of about twenty-eight years of
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CHAPTER IV Before Mademoiselle de Guerchi had recovered from her fright the
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CHAPTER V The chevalier was still holding Angelique’s hand when a step resounded
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CHAPTER VI We left de Jars and Jeannin, roaring with laughter, in the tavern in the
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CHAPTER VII On the day following this extraordinary series of adventures,
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CHAPTER VIII With the reader’s permission, we must now jump over an interval of
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CHAPTER IX The accusation hanging over the head of Maitre Quennebert was a very
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CHAPTER I In the night of the 15th of January 1343, while the inhabitants of
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CHAPTER II As soon as the obsequies were over, Andre’s tutor hastily assembled the
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CHAPTER III Night fell, and from the Molo to the Mergellina, from the Capuano Castle
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CHAPTER IV Eight days after the funeral of the old queen, Bertrand of Artois came
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CHAPTER V The terrible part that Charles of Durazzo was to play began as soon as
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CHAPTER VI The spectacle of this frightful punishment did not satisfy the revenge
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CHAPTER VII The King of Hungary, his black flag ever borne before him, started for
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CHAPTER VIII While the Neapolitans were holding out against their enemy at the Porta
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CHAPTER I The beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of audacious
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CHAPTER II Ali thus at thirteen years of age was free to indulge in the impetuosity
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CHAPTER III Having governed Thessaly in this manner during several years, Ali found
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CHAPTER IV In December, the Suliots, decimated by battle, worn by famine,
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CHAPTER V After taking possession of Argyro-Castron, which he had long coveted,
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CHAPTER VI Ali had long cherished a violent passion for Zobeide, the wife of his
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CHAPTER VII The French commander Nicole, surnamed the "Pilgrim," on account of a
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CHAPTER VIII A career of successful crime had established Ali’s rule over a
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CHAPTER IX Yet next day, May 24th, 1820, Ali addressed a circular letter to his
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CHAPTER X This mixture of arrogance and submission only merited indignation, but
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CHAPTER XI For a whole week all seemed going well, when, on the morning of February
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CHAPTER X The French army was now preparing to cross the Alps a second time, under
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