THE WORKS OF ALEXANDRE DUMAS

THE FORTY-FIVE GUARDSMEN
A SEQUEL TO "CHICOT, THE JESTER"


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


NEW YORK
PETER FENELON COLLIER, PUBLISHER
1893

[Illustration: Briquet at the window.]



CONTENTS

THE FORTY-FIVE GUARDSMEN

CHAPTER


1. The Porte St. Antoine
2. What passed outside the Porte St. Antoine
3. The Examination
4. His Majesty Henri the Third
5. The Execution