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[Transcriber's Note: This text is taken from a nine-volume edition of
the works of Alexandre Dumas, published in 1893 by Peter Fenelon
Collier. _The Regent's Daughter_ was published in volume 6, along with
_The Forty-Five Guardsmen_ and _The Conspirators_, both of which are
also available from Project Gutenberg. The translator of these texts is
unknown.

The use of accents in the original text was erratic, and some names
appear with more than one spelling. Except where one version was clearly
predominant, all spellings are left as they appear in the original
text.]




THE WORKS OF ALEXANDRE DUMAS


THE REGENT'S DAUGHTER

A SEQUEL TO "THE CONSPIRATORS"

Copiously Illustrated with elegant Pen and Ink and Wood Engravings,
specially drawn for this edition by eminent French and American Artists


COMPLETE IN NINE VOLUMES

VOLUME SIX


NEW YORK
PETER FENELON COLLIER, PUBLISHER
1893



THE REGENT'S DAUGHTER.


1.    An Abbess of the Eighteenth Century                431

2.    Decidedly the Family begins to settle down         435

3.    What passed three Nights later at eight hundred    438
      Leagues from the Palais Royal

4.    Showing how Chance arranges some Matters better    442
      than Providence

5.    The Journey                                        444

6.    A Room in the Hotel at Rambouillet                 447

7.    A Servant in the Royal Livery--Monseigneur le      449
      Duc d'Orleans

8.    The Utility of a Seal                              452

9.    The Visit                                          455

10.   In which Dubois proves that his Police was         459
      better organized at an Expense of three hundred
      thousand Francs than the general Police for
      three Millions

11.   Rambouillet again                                  461

12.   Captain la Jonquiere                               463

13.   Monsieur Moutonnet, Draper at St. Germain-en-Laye  466

14.   Trust to Signs of Gratitude                        468

15.   His Excellency the Duc d'Orleans                   471

16.   "Monseigneur, we are Bretons"                      474

17.   Monsieur Andre                                     475

18.   The Faubourg Saint Antoine                         479

19.   The Artist and the Politician                      481

20.   Blood reveals itself                               484

21.   What passed in the Rue du Bac while waiting for    488
      Gaston

22.   In Bretagne                                        502

23.   The Sorceress of Savernay                          505

24.   The Arrest                                         509

25.   The Bastille                                       512

26.   How Life passed in the Bastille while waiting      516
      for Death

27.   How the Night passed in the Bastille while         519
      waiting for the Day

28.   A Companion in the Bastille                        522

29.   The Sentence                                       527

30.   The Family Feud                                    531

31.   State Affairs and Family Affairs                   538

32.   Showing that we must not always judge Others       543
      by Ourselves

33.   Monceaux                                           547

34.   The Pardon                                         550

35.   The last Interview                                 553

36.   Nantes                                             555

37.   The Tragedy of Nantes                              560

38.   The End                                            564




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


13.--Captain la Jonquiere.

14.--Philip V.

15.--Gaston rose hastily, and met D'Argenson with a law officer.

16.--Abbe Brigaud.

17.--Mademoiselle de Launay.

18.--The Regent.




THE REGENT'S DAUGHTER.

CHAPTER I.

AN ABBESS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.


On the 8th February, 1719, a carriage, bearing the fleur-de-lis of
France, with the motto of Orleans, preceded by two outriders and a page,
entered the porch of the Abbey of Chelles, precisely as the clock struck
ten, and, the door having been quickly opened, its two occupants stepped
out.

The first was a man of from forty-five to forty