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Index
Epigraph
France: Before and After the Revolution
The Bourbons
Part 1 Saint-Cloud
Chapter 1 The Beggar at the Corner
Chapter 2 Death of a Potato
Chapter 3 The Chamber of the Dead
Chapter 4 The Missing Fingernails
Chapter 5 An Astounding Reemergence
Chapter 6 The Incident of the Hobnailed Boot
Chapter 7 From Beyond the Grave
Chapter 8 A Spy Unmasked
Chapter 9 A Journey to Luxembourg
Chapter 10 The Double Eagle
Chapter 11 The Lost Dauphin
Chapter 12 The Reeducation of a Parrot
Chapter 13 An Ancient Relic Rediscovered
Chapter 14 Treasures of a Reliquary
Chapter 15 The Black Tower
Chapter 16 A Fatal Disease Is Diagnosed—at the Very Precipice of Death
Chapter 17 The Case of the Headless Woman
Chapter 18 In Which a Great Man Is Threatened with Extreme Violence
Chapter 19 The Sad Fate of a Seagull
Chapter 20 In Which Tourism Is Shown to Be Hazardous
Chapter 21 A Garden Grows in Saint-Cloud
Part 2 Saint-Denis
Chapter 22 The Fox and the Rabbit
Chapter 23 A Scene of Great Carnage Involving Pistachios
Chapter 24 A Vicomte Expires Unexpectedly
Chapter 25 Mama Carpentier Stands Firm
Chapter 26 In Which a Corpus Is Exhumed
Chapter 27 A Boy Named Hector
Chapter 28 A Disappearance Solved
Chapter 29 The King of France Is Held Hostage
Chapter 30 Vidocq Takes an Overdue Interest in Art
Chapter 31 Dead Bones
Chapter 32 Germany to the Rescue
Chapter 33 A Lilac Grows in the Tuileries Gardens
Chapter 34 Not Since Waterloo
Chapter 35 In Which the Vulnerability of the Hamstring Is Clearly Demonstrated
Chapter 36 Vidocq’s Confessional Booth
Chapter 37 The Proper Disposal of Worms
Chapter 38 A Case of Domestic Espionage
Chapter 39 The Dire Fate of Charlotte’s Chickens
Part 3 Place de Grève
Chapter 40 The Rebirth of Junius
Chapter 41 The Trojan Hobbyhorse
Chapter 42 The Birthmark
Chapter 43 The Dead Moth
Chapter 44 A Rupture of Etiquette
Chapter 45 The Fate of Parricides
Chapter 46 Foiled Hopes
Chapter 47 In Which the Nature of Hector’s Research Is Revealed
Chapter 48 A Confession
Chapter 49 The Muslin Bag
Chapter 50 The Making of a Forger
Chapter 51 Postlude
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Other Books by Louis Bayard
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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