Taking The Bastile: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

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

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LibriVox recording of Taking The Bastile by Alexandre Dumas. Read in English by Elsie Selwyn; Rita Boutros; bts13mp; RussellEric Pitou lost his mother when he was small. He was raised by a stern aunt who did not really love him. He starts knowing the world by going to service. How can this man, Pitou the Peasant (as the subtitle of the novel suggests) go on to influence the whole state? How can he go on and take a part in the French revolution? Can his motivation, coming from what he did not have, be enough? - Summary by Stav Nisser

Recording facts

• Recording title: Taking The Bastile
• Author credits: Alexandre Dumas
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 7:27:26

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• Historical Fiction
• french revolution

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - CHAPTER I. THE SON OF GILBERT. — 10:00
2. 02 - CHAPTER II. ANGE PITOU. — 22:59
3. 03 - CHAPTER III. A REVOLUTIONARY FARMER. — 17:26
4. 04 - CHAPTER IV. LONG LEGS ARE GOOD FOR RUNNING, IF NOT FOR DANCING. — 24:54
5. 05 - CHAPTER V. WHY THE POLICE AGENT CAME WITH THE CONSTABLES. — 18:34
6. 06 - CHAPTER VI. ON THE ROAD. — 6:40
7. 07 - CHAPTER VII. THE FIRST BLOOD. — 17:51
8. 08 - CHAPTER VIII. PITOU DISCOVERS HE IS BRAVE. — 16:39
9. 09 - CHAPTER IX. "TO THE BASTILE!" — 17:15
10. 10 - CHAPTER X. BLOWING HOT AND COLD. — 27:05
11. 11 - CHAPTER XI. THE PRISON GOVERNOR. — 25:35
12. 12 - CHAPTER XII. STORMING THE BASTILE. — 30:24
13. 13 - CHAPTER XIII. DOWN IN THE DUNGEONS. — 15:05
14. 14 - CHAPTER XIV. THE TRIANGLE OF LIBERTY. — 20:34
15. 15 - CHAPTER XV. THE YOUNG VISIONARY. — 4:55
16. 16 - CHAPTER XVI. THE PHYSICIAN FOR THE STATE. — 7:54
17. 17 - CHAPTER XVII. THE COUNTESS OF CHARNY. — 13:13
18. 18 - CHAPTER XVIII. THE QUEEN AT BAY. — 16:21
19. 19 - CHAPTER XIX. THE QUEEN'S FAVOURITE. — 25:59
20. 20 - CHAPTER XX. THE TRIO OF LOVE. — 8:13
21. 21 - CHAPTER XXI. THE QUEEN AND HER MASTER. — 17:42
22. 22 - CHAPTER XXII. THE PRIVATE COUNCIL. — 18:54
23. 23 - CHAPTER XXIII. WHY THE QUEEN WAITED. — 20:18
24. 24 - CHAPTER XXIV. THE ARMY OF WOMEN. — 15:29

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