*CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE* _By_ *Alexandre Dumas, Père* _In Eight Volumes_ 1910 CONTENTS NOTE: INTRODUCTION *THE BORGIAS* PROLOGUE CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI EPILOGUE *THE CENCI—1598* *MASSACRES OF THE SOUTH—1551-1815* CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX *MARY STUART—1587* CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X *KARL-LUDWIG SAND—1819* *URBAIN GRANDIER—1634* CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII *NISIDA—1825* *DERUES* *LA CONSTANTIN—1660* CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX *JOAN OF NAPLES—1343-1382* CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII *THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK [An Essay]* *MARTIN GUERRE* *ALI PACHA* CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI *THE COUNTESS DE SAINT-GERAN—1639* *MURAT—1815* I—TOULON II—CORSICA III—PIZZO *THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS* *VANINKA* *THE MARQUISE DE GANGES—1657* NOTE: Dumas’s ’Celebrated Crimes’ was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe the violent scenes of a violent time. "In some instances facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in others the author makes unwarranted charges. It is not within our province to edit the historical side of Dumas, any more than it would be to correct the obvious errors in Dickens’s Child’s History of England. The careful, mature reader, for whom the books are intended, will recognize, and allow for, this fact. INTRODUCTION The contents of these volumes of ’Celebrated Crimes’, as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, pere, when he was not "the elder," nor yet the author of D’Artagnan or Monte Cristo, but was a rising young dramatist and a lion in the literary set and world of fashion.