[Portions of this header are copyright (C) 2001 by Michael S. Hart and may be reprinted only when these Etexts are free of all fees.] [Project Gutenberg is a TradeMark and may not be used in any sales of Project Gutenberg Etexts or other materials be they hardware or software or any other related product without express permission.] This etext was produced by David Widger <widger@cecomet.net> WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS FROM THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITION OF CELEBRATED CRIMES BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE by David Widger EDITOR'S NOTE Readers acquainted with the Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas may wish to see if their favorite passages are listed in this selection. The etext editor will be glad to add your suggestions. One of the advantages of internet over paper publication is the ease of quick revision. All the titles may be found using the Project Gutenberg search engine at: http://promo.net/pg/ After downloading a specific file, the location and complete context of the quotations may be found by inserting a small part of the quotation into the 'Find' or 'Search' functions of the user's word processing program. The quotations are in two formats: 1. Small passages from the text. 2. Lists of alphabetized one-liners. The editor may be contacted at <widger@cecomet.net> for comments, questions or suggested additions to these extracts. D.W. WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS FROM CELEBRATED CRIMES BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE CONTENTS: THE BORGIAS THE CENCI MASSACRES OF THE SOUTH MARY STUART KARL-LUDWIG SAND URBAIN GRANDIER NISIDA DERUES LA CONSTANTIN JOAN OF NAPLES THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (The Essay, not the Novel) MARTIN GUERRE ALI PACHA THE COUNTESS DE SAINT GERAN MURAT THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS VANINKA THE MARQUISE DE GANGES 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.