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An Historical Mystery

by Honoré de Balzac

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  1. 1Part I
  2. 2Chapter II — A Crime Relinquished
  3. 3Chapter III — The Mask Thrown Off
  4. 4Chapter IV — Laurence de Cinq-Cygne
  5. 5Chapter V — Royalist Homes and Portraits Under the Consulate
  6. 6Chapter VI — A Domiciliary Visit
  7. 7Chapter VII — A Forest Nook
  8. 8Chapter VIII — Trials of the Police
  9. 9Chapter IX — Foiled
  10. 10Part II
  11. 11Chapter XI — Wise Counsel
  12. 12Chapter XII — The Facts of a Mysterious Affair
  13. 13Chapter XIII — The Code of Brumaire, Year IV
  14. 14Chapter XIV — The Arrests
  15. 15Chapter XV — Doubts and Fears of Counsel
  16. 16Chapter XVI — Marthe Inveigled
  17. 17Chapter XVII — The Trial
  18. 18Chapter XVIII — Trial Continued: Cruel Vicissitudes
  19. 19Chapter XIX — The Emperor’s Bivouac
  20. 20Chapter XX — The Mystery Solved
  21. 21Addendum

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