Chicot the Jester: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Chicot the Jester, credited to Alexandre Dumas, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Chicot the Jester by Alexandre Dumas. Read in English by John Van Stan This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry III. The reign of King Henry III was plagued with rebellion and political intrigue due to the War of the Three Henries, where his regency was challenged by King Henry of Navarre (leader of the Huguenots) and Henry I, Duke of Guise (leader of the Catholic League). Dumas weaves two main storylines through this turbulent backdrop: one of the love ignited between le Comte de Bussy and la Dame de Monsoreau, and another of the friendship between King Henry III and his truly unique jester, Chicot (Jean-Antoine d'Anglerais). - Summary by jvanstan

Recording facts

• Recording title: Chicot the Jester
• Author credits: Alexandre Dumas
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 97
• Listed recording duration: 15:29:28

Catalogue topics

• history
• Huguenots
• french wars of religion
• king henry iii of france
• catholic league
• malcontents
• duke d'anjou

Opening tracks: first 24 of 97

1. 01 - The wedding of St. Luc — 24:46
2. 02 - How it is not always he who opens the door, who enters the house — 14:00
3. 03 - How it is sometimes difficult to distinguish a dream from the reality — 9:55
4. 04 - How Madame de St. Luc had passed the night — 9:19
5. 05 - How Madame de St. Luc passed the second night of her marriage — 9:56
6. 06 - Le petite coucher of Henri III — 9:12
7. 07 - How, without anyone knowing why, the king was converted before the next day — 9:37
8. 08 - How the king was afraid of being afraid — 11:10
9. 09 - How the angel made a mistake and spoke to Chicot, thinking it was the king — 9:01
10. 10 - How Bussy went to seek for the reality of his dream — 13:22
11. 11 - M. Bryan de Monsoreau — 21:06
12. 12 - How Bussy found both the portrait and the original — 8:47
13. 13 - Who Diana was — 26:09
14. 14 - The treaty — 14:13
15. 15 - The marriage — 10:49
16. 16 - The marriage (continued) — 11:04
17. 17 - How Henri III. traveled, and how long it took him to get from Paris to Fontainebleau — 8:09
18. 18 - Brother Gorenflot — 17:40
19. 19 - How Chicot found out that it was easier to go in than out of the abbey — 10:54
20. 20 - How Chicot, forced to remain in the abbey, saw and heard things very dangerous to see and hear — 21:05
21. 21 - How Chicot learned genealogy — 9:49
22. 22 - How M. and Madame de St. Luc met with a traveling companion — 10:05
23. 23 - The old man — 10:58
24. 24 - How Remy-le-Haudouin had, in Bussy's absence, established a communication with the Rue St. Antione — 6:17

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