Contents

PREFACE
I. THE TREACHERY OF JEAN-PIERRE QUERELLE
II. THE CAPTURE OF GEORGES CADOUDAL
III. THE COMBRAYS
IV. THE ADVENTURES OF D'ACHÉ
V. THE AFFAIR OF QUESNAY
VI. THE YELLOW HORSE
VII. MADAME ACQUET
VIII. PAYING THE PENALTY
IX. THE FATE OF D'ACHÉ
X. THE CHOUANS SET FREE




PREFACE

AN OLD TOWER


One evening in the winter of 1868 or 1869, my father-in-law, Moisson,
with whom I was chatting after dinner, took up a book that was lying on
the table, open at the page where I had stopped reading, and said:

"Ah! you are reading Mme. de la Chanterie?"

"Yes," I replied. "A fine book; do you know it?"