CONTENTS
PART I. THE OLD RULE
CHAPTER I. MONSIEUR THE SECRETARY
CHAPTER II. LORDS OF LIFE AND DEATH
CHAPTER III. THE WORD OF BELLECOUR
CHAPTER IV. THE DISCIPLES OF ROUSSEAU
PART II. THE NEW RULE
CHAPTER V. THE SHEEP TURNED WOLVES
CHAPTER VI. THE CITIZEN COMMISSIONER
CHAPTER VII. LA BOULAYE DISCHARGES A DEBT
CHAPTER VIII. THE INVALIDS AT BOISVERT
CHAPTER IX. THE CAPTIVES
CHAPTER X. THE BAISER LAMOURETTE
CHAPTER XI. THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER XII. THE AWAKENING
CHAPTER XIII. THE ROAD TO LIEGE
CHAPTER XIV. THE COURIER
CHAPTER XV. LA BOULAYE BAITS HIS HOOK
PART III. THE EVERLASTING RULE
CHAPTER XVI. CECILE DESHAIX
CHAPTER XVII. LA BOULAYE'S PROMISE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE INCORRUPTIBLE
CHAPTER XIX. THE THEFT
CHAPTER XX. THE GRATITUDE OF OMBREVAL
CHAPTER XXI. THE ARREST
CHAPTER XXII. THE TRIBUNAL
CHAPTER XXIII. THE CONCIERGERIE
These are they Who ride on the court gale, control its tides; *** Whose frown abases and whose smile exalts. They shine like any rainbow—and, perchance, Their colours are as transient. Old Play
It was spring at Bellecour—the spring of 1789, a short three months before the fall of the Bastille came to give the nobles pause, and make them realise that these new philosophies, which so long they have derided, were by no means the idle vapours they had deemed them.
By the brook, plashing its glittering course through the park of Bellecour, wandered La Boulaye