Table of Contents
Part I Cur Non
1 The Orphan Marquis 3
2 A Bird in a Gilded Cage 16
3 Why Not? 29
4 Brilliant Madness 45
5 A Hell of Blunders, Madness, and Deception 61
6 The Alliance 77
7 Purchasing Glory 92
8 Red and Black Feathers 106
9 The Play is Over 124
First Interlude: The Liberties of All Mankind 143
Part II La Revolution
10 The Notables 169
11 A Conspiracy of Honest People 186
12 The Catechism of France 203
13 I Reign in Paris 219
14 To Versailles or to the Lamppost 232
15 The Zenith of his Influence 244
16 An Ocean of Factions and Commotions 260
17 His Circle Is Completed 278
Second Interlude: The Prisoners of Olmütz 295
Part III The Republican Kiss
18 Lagrange 323
19 Restoration 338
20 The Certificate of Antiquity 353
21 The Charcoal Burners 366
22 The Nation's Guest 380
23 The July Revolution 401
24 A Tower Amid The Waters 419
Acknowledgments 437
Note on Direct Quotes 439
Notes 440
Bibliographic Note 466
Select Bibliography 472
Index 483