Petticoat Rule
by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
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Language: English
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About this eBook
- Author
- Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness, 1865-1947
- Credits
- Produced by Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- France -- History -- Louis XV, 1715-1774 -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 34660
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34660
- Release Date
- December 15, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PETTICOAT RULE
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.PART I THE GIRL — PETTICOAT RULE CHAPTER I A FAREWELL BANQUET — CHAPTER II THE RULERS OF FRANCE — CHAPTER III POMPADOUR'S CHOICE — CHAPTER IV A WOMAN'S SURRENDER — CHAPTER V THE FIRST TRICK — CHAPTER VI A FALSE POSITION — CHAPTER VII THE YOUNG PRETENDER — CHAPTER VIII THE LAST TRICK — CHAPTER IX THE WINNING HAND
- 4.PART II THE STATESMAN — CHAPTER X THE BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK — CHAPTER XI LA BELLE IRÈNE — CHAPTER XII THE PROMISES OF FRANCE — CHAPTER XIII THE WEIGHT OF ETIQUETTE — CHAPTER XIV ROYAL FAVOURS — CHAPTER XV DIPLOMACY — CHAPTER XVI STRANGERS
- 5.PART III THE WOMAN — CHAPTER XVII SPLENDID ISOLATION — CHAPTER XVIII CLEVER TACTICS — CHAPTER XIX A CRISIS — CHAPTER XX A FAREWELL — CHAPTER XXI ROYAL THANKS — CHAPTER XXII PATERNAL ANXIETY — CHAPTER XXIII THE QUEEN'S SOIRÉE — CHAPTER XXIV GOSSIP — CHAPTER XXV THE FIRST DOUBT — CHAPTER XXVI THE AWFUL CERTITUDE — CHAPTER XXVII A FALL — CHAPTER XXVIII HUSBAND AND WIFE — CHAPTER XXIX THE FATE OF THE STUART PRINCE — CHAPTER XXX M. DE STAINVILLE'S SECONDS — CHAPTER XXXI THE FINAL DISAPPOINTMENT — CHAPTER XXXII THE DAWN — CHAPTER XXXIII THE RIDE — CHAPTER XXXIV "LE MONARQUE" — CHAPTER XXXV THE STRANGER — CHAPTER XXXVI REVENGE — CHAPTER XXXVII THE LETTER — CHAPTER XXXVIII THE HOME IN ENGLAND
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