Title -- Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- VOLUME I -- Chapter I - Which Shows What a French Forest was in the Year of Our Lord 1642, and by Whom it was Inhabited -- Chapter II - In Which New Characters Are Brought Upon the Stage, and Some Dark Hints Given Respecting Them -- Chapter III - Which Shows What a French Forest was at Night, and Who Inhabited It -- Chapter IV - In Which the Learned Reader Will Discover that it is Easy to Raise Suspicions Without Any Cause, and that Royalty is Not Patent Against Superstition -- Chapter V - A Chapter of Mighty Import, Which May Be Read or Not, as the Reader Thinks Fit, the Book Being Quite as Well Without It -- Chapter VI - The Marquis de Cinq Mars, the Count de Fontrailles, and King Louis the Thirteenth, All Making Fools of Themselves in Their Own Way -- Chapter VII - In Which is Shown How a Great King Hunted a Great Beast, and What Came of the Hunting -- Chapter VIII - Showing How the Green-Eyed Monster Got Hold of a Young Lady's Heart, and What He Did with It -- Chapter IX - Containing a Great Deal that Would Not Have Been Said Had it Not Been Necessary -- Chapter X - Shows How the Count de Blenau Supped in a Place that He Little Expected -- Chapter XI - Containing a Conference, Which Ends Much as it Began -- Chapter XII - "An Entire New Comedy, with New Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations" -- VOLUME II -- Chapter I - The Motto of Which Should Be "Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire" -- Chapter II - Which Gives an Example of "the Way to Keep Him" -- Chapter III - Which Shows a New Use for an Old Castle -- and Gives a Good Receipt for Leading a Man by the Nose -- Chapter IV - Intended to Prove that Keen-Sighted Politicians Are but Buzzards After All, and to Show How Philip the Woodman Took a Ride Earlier than Usual -- Chapter V - Which Shows that Diadems Are Not Without Their Thorns.

Chapter VI - Containing a Great Many Things Not More Curious and Interesting than True -- Chapter VII - Which Shows What They Did with de Blenau in the Bastille, and What He Himself Did to Get Out of It -- Chapter VIII - Which Shows that Accident Holds Wisdom by the Leg, and Like a Pig-Driver with a Pig, Often Makes Her Go Forward by Pulling Her Back -- Chapter IX - Which Gets Pauline Out, and Philip in, and Leaves de Blenau in the Middle -- Chapter X - Showing What it is to Be a Day After the Fair -- with Sundry Other Matters, Which the Reader Cannot Fully Comprehend Without Reading Them -- Chapter XI - In Which de Blenau Finds that He Has Got the Rod in His Own Hand, and How He Uses it -- Together with a Curious Account of a Tremendous Combat and Glorious Victory -- Chapter XII - The Bureau of a Counsellor of State, or How Things Were Managed in 1642 -- VOLUME III -- Chapter I - Showing How a Great Minister Made a Great Mistake -- Chapter II - In Which de Blenau Gets Out of the Scrape -- Chapter III - Which Shows the Truth of the French Adage, "L'habit Ne Fait Pas Le Moine" -- Chapter IV - Being a Chapter of Explanations, Which the Reader Has No Occasion to Peruse if He Understands the Story Without It -- Chapter V - Which Evinces the Necessity of Saying, No -- and Shows What it is to Hunt Upon a Wrong Scent -- Chapter VI - The Consequence of Fishing in Troubled Water -- Chapter VII - Wherein de Blenau Finds Out that He Has Made a Mistake, and What Follows -- Chapter VIII - Which Shows that the Moment and the Manner Have Often More to Do with Success than the Matter -- Chapter IX - Which Shows How a King Made Reparation, and What Came of It -- Chapter X - How Chavigni Rode Fifty Miles to Ride Back Again -- Chapter XI - Which was Written Expressly to Prove that there is Many a Slip Between the Cup and the Lip.

Chapter XII - Which Shows that a Man Who Has Climbed a Mountain May Stumble at a Pebble -- or the Consequences of One Oversight -- Chapter XIII - Containing a Journey, a Discovery, and a Strange Sight -- Chapter XIV - Giving a Good Receipt for Proving a Man Guilty When He is Innocent -- Chapter XV - Which, if the Reader Can Get through it, Will Bring Him to the End of the History -- Notes -- Endnotes.