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George Payne Rainsford James was a British writer who produced a remarkable number of historical novels and romances over the course of his thirty-year career. The sweeping epic Richelieu unfolds amidst the cultural tumult and political shifts of seventeenth-century France.
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- RICHELIEU
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- VOLUME I
- Chapter I - Which Shows What a French Forest was in the Year of Our Lord 1642, and by Whom it was Inhabited
- Chapter II - In Which New Characters Are Brought Upon the Stage, and Some Dark Hints Given Respecting Them
- Chapter III - Which Shows What a French Forest was at Night, and Who Inhabited It
- Chapter IV - In Which the Learned Reader Will Discover that it is Easy to Raise Suspicions Without Any Cause, and that Royalty is Not Patent Against Superstition
- Chapter V - A Chapter of Mighty Import, Which May Be Read or Not, as the Reader Thinks Fit, the Book Being Quite as Well Without It
- Chapter VI - The Marquis de Cinq Mars, the Count de Fontrailles, and King Louis the Thirteenth, All Making Fools of Themselves in Their Own Way
- Chapter VII - In Which is Shown How a Great King Hunted a Great Beast, and What Came of the Hunting
- Chapter VIII - Showing How the Green-Eyed Monster Got Hold of a Young Lady's Heart, and What He Did with It
- Chapter IX - Containing a Great Deal that Would Not Have Been Said Had it Not Been Necessary
- Chapter X - Shows How the Count de Blenau Supped in a Place that He Little Expected
- Chapter XI - Containing a Conference, Which Ends Much as it Began
- Chapter XII - "An Entire New Comedy, with New Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations"
- VOLUME II
- Chapter I - The Motto of Which Should Be "Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire"
- Chapter II - Which Gives an Example of "the Way to Keep Him"
- Chapter III - Which Shows a New Use for an Old Castle; and Gives a Good Receipt for Leading a Man by the Nose
- Chapter IV - Intended to Prove that Keen-Sighted Politicians Are but Buzzards After All, and to Show How Philip the Woodman Took a Ride Earlier than Usual
- Chapter V - Which Shows that Diadems Are Not Without Their Thorns
- Chapter VI - Containing a Great Many Things Not More Curious and Interesting than True
- Chapter VII - Which Shows What They Did with de Blenau in the Bastille, and What He Himself Did to Get Out of It
- Chapter VIII - Which Shows that Accident Holds Wisdom by the Leg, and Like a Pig-Driver with a Pig, Often Makes Her Go Forward by Pulling Her Back
- Chapter IX - Which Gets Pauline Out, and Philip in, and Leaves de Blenau in the Middle
- Chapter X - Showing What it is to Be a Day After the Fair; with Sundry Other Matters, Which the Reader Cannot Fully Comprehend Without Reading Them
- Chapter XI - In Which de Blenau Finds that He Has Got the Rod in His Own Hand, and How He Uses it; Together with a Curious Account of a Tremendous Combat and Glorious Victory
- Chapter XII - The Bureau of a Counsellor of State, or How Things Were Managed in 1642
- VOLUME III
- Chapter I - Showing How a Great Minister Made a Great Mistake
- Chapter II - In Which de Blenau Gets Out of the Scrape
- Chapter III - Which Shows the Truth of the French Adage, "L'habit Ne Fait Pas Le Moine"
- Chapter IV - Being a Chapter of Explanations, Which the Reader Has No Occasion to Peruse if He Understands the Story Without It
- Chapter V - Which Evinces the Necessity of Saying, No; and Shows What it is to Hunt Upon a Wrong Scent
- Chapter VI - The Consequence of Fishing in Troubled Water
- Chapter VII - Wherein de Blenau Finds Out that He Has Made a Mistake, and What Follows
- Chapter VIII - Which Shows that the Moment and the Manner Have Often More to Do with Success than the Matter
- Chapter IX - Which Shows How a King Made Reparation, and What Came of It
- Chapter X - How Chavigni Rode Fifty Miles to Ride Back Again
- Chapter XI - Which was Written Expressly to Prove that there is Many a Slip Between the Cup and the Lip
- Chapter XII - Which Shows that a Man Who Has Climbed a Mountain May Stumble at a Pebble; or the Consequences of One Oversight
- Chapter XIII - Containing a Journey, a Discovery, and a Strange Sight
- Chapter XIV - Giving a Good Receipt for Proving a Man Guilty When He is Innocent
- Chapter XV - Which, if the Reader Can Get through it, Will Bring Him to the End of the History
- Notes
- Endnotes