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Strange True Stories of Louisiana

by George Washington Cable

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  1. 1Dedication — How I Got Them
  2. 2The Young Aunt With White Hair
  3. 3The Adventures of Françoise and Suzanne
  4. 4I — The Two Sisters
  5. 5II — Making Up the Expedition
  6. 6III — The Embarkation
  7. 7IV — Alix Carpentier
  8. 8V — Down Bayou Plaquemine — The Fight With Wild Nature
  9. 9VI — The Twice-Married Countess
  10. 10VII — Odd Partners in the Bolero Dance
  11. 11VIII — A Bad Storm in a Bad Place
  12. 12IX — Maggie and the Robbers
  13. 13X — Alix Puts Away the Past
  14. 14XI — Alix Plays Fairy — Parting Tears
  15. 15XII — Little Paris
  16. 16XIII — The Countess Madelaine
  17. 17XIV — “Poor Little Alix!”
  18. 18XV — The Discovery of the Hat
  19. 19XVI — The Ball
  20. 20XVII — Picnic and Farewell
  21. 21Alix de Morainville
  22. 22Salome Müller — The White Slave 1818-45
  23. 23II — Six Months at Anchor
  24. 24III — Famine at Sea
  25. 25IV — Sold Into Bondage
  26. 26V — The Lost Orphans
  27. 27VI — Christian Roselius
  28. 28VII — Miller Versus Belmonti
  29. 29VIII — The Trial
  30. 30IX — The Evidence
  31. 31X — The Crowning Proof
  32. 32XI — Judgment
  33. 33XII — Before the Supreme Court
  34. 34The “Haunted House” in Royal Street — I — As It Stands Now
  35. 35II — Madame Lalaurie
  36. 36III — A Terrible Revelation
  37. 37IV — The Lady’s Flight
  38. 38V — A New Use
  39. 39VI — Evictions
  40. 40Attalie Brouillard — I — Furnished Rooms
  41. 41II — John Bull
  42. 42III — Ducour’s Meditations
  43. 43IV — Proxy
  44. 44V — The Nuncupative Will
  45. 45VI — Men Can Be Better Than Their Laws
  46. 46War Diary of a Union Woman in the South
  47. 47I — Secession
  48. 48II — The Volunteers — Fort Sumter
  49. 49III — Tribulation
  50. 50IV — A Beleaguered City
  51. 51V — Married
  52. 52VI — How It Was in Arkansas
  53. 53VII — The Fight for Food and Clothing
  54. 54VIII — Drowned Out and Starved Out
  55. 55IX — Homeless and Shelterless
  56. 56X — Frights and Perils in Steele’s Bayou
  57. 57XI — Wild Times in Mississippi
  58. 58XII — Vicksburg
  59. 59XIII — Preparations for the Siege
  60. 60XIV — The Siege Itself
  61. 61XV — Gibraltar Falls

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