Richelieu : a tale of France / G.P.R. James.
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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1829.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Title; 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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 ItChapter 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter X -- Shows How the Count de Blenau Supped in a Place that He Little ExpectedChapter 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 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 UsualChapter 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter IX -- Which Gets Pauline Out, and Philip in, and Leaves de Blenau in the MiddleChapter 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter II -- In Which de Blenau Gets Out of the Scrape. | |
| 520 | |a 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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