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Title: The Black Wolf's Breed
A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening
in the Reign of Louis XIV

Author: Harris Dickson

Illustrator: C. M. Relyea

Release Date: January 11, 2007 [EBook #20330]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Frontispiece: "Come, fellow, thou art trapped; give me up my purse."]

The Black Wolf's Breed

_A Story of France
In the Old World and the New, happening
in the Reign of Louis XIV_

BY

HARRIS DICKSON

ILLUSTRATIONS BY C. M. RELYEA

GROSSET & DUNLAP

Publishers -:- New York

Copyright 1899

by

The Bowen-Merrill Company

_All rights reserved_

TO THE MEMORY OF

_BIENVILLE_

THE SOLDIER-GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA

OUT OF WHOSE

MIGHTY PROVINCE HAS GROWN NEARLY ONE-HALF

OF THE

WORLD'S GREATEST

REPUBLIC

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

I The Master
II Bienville
III Aboard Le Dauphin
IV The Road to Versailles
V The Decadence of Versailles
VI Louis XIV
VII At the Austrian Arms
VIII A New Friend
IX Mademoiselle
X In the House of Bertrand
XI The Dawn and the Dusk
XII Florine to the Rescue
XIII The Girl of the Wine Shop
XIV The Secretary and the Duke
XV New Hopes
XVI The Unexpected
XVII The Flight From Sceaux
XVIII Serigny's Departure
XIX The Castle of Cartillon
XX From the Path of Duty
XXI The Fall of Pensacola
XXII The Contents of the Box
XXIII A Note Which Went Astray
XXIV The Children of the Black Wolf's Breed

APPENDIX

ILLUSTRATIONS

LOI
"Come, fellow, thou art trapped; give me up my purse." . .
_Frontispiece_

"What is it; what device is there?"

"The old man gazed steadily at me for some moments."
ELOI

_FRANCE--In the old world and in the new!_

_The France of romance and glory under Henry of Navarre; of pride and
glitter under Louis XIV, in whose reign was builded, under the silver
lilies, tha