Petticoat Government, an electronic edition

The Baroness Orczy [ Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness, 1865-1947 ]

date: 1910
source publisher: Hutchinson & Co.
collection: Genre Fiction

Table of Contents

• front matter
  • title page : half
  • title page : full
  • copyright
  • dedication
  • table of contents
• part: THE GIRL
  • chapter: PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT 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
• 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
• 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
• back matter
  • colophon