Table of Contents
Part One
CHAPTER 1 A Small Town .....................................................002
CHAPTER 2 A Mayor ..............................................................007
CHAPTER 3 The Bread of the Poor ....................................... 011
CHAPTER 4 Father and Son....................................................018
CHAPTER 5 Driving a Bargain ...............................................023
CHAPTER 6 Dullness ...............................................................033
CHAPTER 7 Elective Affinities .............................................. 043
CHAPTER 8 Minor Events ......................................................057
CHAPTER 9 An Evening in the Country .............................. 067
CHAPTER 10 A Large Heart and a Small Fortune ............... 078
CHAPTER 11 Night Thoughts ................................................083
CHAPTER 12 A Journey .........................................................089
CHAPTER 13 Open-work Stockings .....................................098
CHAPTER 14 The English Scissors ........................................105
CHAPTER 15 Cock-crow ....................................................... 109
CHAPTER 16 The Day After ................................................... 114
CHAPTER 17 The Principal Deputy ......................................120
CHAPTER 18 A King at Verrieres .......................................... 126
CHAPTER 19 To Think Is To Be Full of Sorrow .................. 143
CHAPTER 20 The Anonymous Letters ................................. 154
CHAPTER 21 Conversation with a Lord and Master............. 159
CHAPTER 22 Manners and Customs in 1830 ......................... 176
CHAPTER 23 The Sorrows of an Official ............................... 192
CHAPTER 24 A Capital ..........................................................210
CHAPTER 25 The Seminary ................................................... 219
CHAPTER 26 The World, or What the Rich Lack ...............228
CHAPTER 27 First Experience of Life ................................... 241
CHAPTER 28 A Procession ................................................... 246
CHAPTER 29 The First Step ................................................... 255
CHAPTER 30 Ambition ...........................................................274
Part Two
CHAPTER 1 Country Pleasures ...............................................298
CHAPTER 2 First Appearance in Society ...............................312
CHAPTER 3 First Steps ............................................................ 322
CHAPTER 4 The Hotel de La Mole ....................................... 327
CHAPTER 5 Sensibility and a Pious Lady ............................... 343
CHAPTER 6 Pronunciation .....................................................347
CHAPTER 7 An Attack of Gout ............................................. 356
CHAPTER 8 What Is the Decoration that Confers Distinction? ........................................................366
CHAPTER 9 The Ball ...............................................................379
CHAPTER 10 Queen Marguerite ............................................ 391
CHAPTER 11 The Tyranny of a Girl ...................................... 401
CHAPTER 12 Another Danton ..............................................406
CHAPTER 13 A Plot ................................................................414
CHAPTER 14 A Girl’s Thoughts ............................................ 426
CHAPTER 15 Is it a Plot? ........................................................434
CHAPTER 16 One o‘Clock in the Morning............................441
CHAPTER 17 An Old Sword ................................................... 450
CHAPTER 18 Painful Moments ..............................................456
CHAPTER 19 The Opera-Bouffe ............................................463
CHAPTER 20 The Japanese Vase ...........................................475
CHAPTER 21 The Secret Note ................................................483
CHAPTER 22 The Discussion ................................................490
CHAPTER 23 The Clergy, their Forests, Liberty .................500
CHAPTER 24 Strasbourg .........................................................511
CHAPTER 25 The Office of Virtue ......................................... 519
CHAPTER 26 Moral Love ....................................................... 528
CHAPTER 27 The Best Positions in the Church ....................533
CHAPTER 28 Manon Lescaut ................................................ 538
CHAPTER 29 Boredom ...........................................................544
CHAPTER 30 A Box at the Bouffes .......................................549
CHAPTER 31 Making Her Afraid ............................................555
CHAPTER 32 The Tiger .......................................................... 561
CHAPTER 33 The Torment of the Weak ...............................568
CHAPTER 34 A Man of Spirit ................................................. 575
CHAPTER 35 A Storm ............................................................. 583
CHAPTER 36 Painful Details ................................................. 590
CHAPTER 37 A Dungeon ........................................................599
CHAPTER 38 A Man of Power ............................................... 605
CHAPTER 39 Intrigue .............................................................. 613
CHAPTER 40 Tranquillity ......................................................619
CHAPTER 41 The Trial........................................................... 624
CHAPTER 42 In the Prison ..................................................... 633
CHAPTER 43 Last Adieux ......................................................640
CHAPTER 44 The Shadow of the Guillotine ........................ 647
CHAPTER 45 Exit Julien ..........................................................657