Stanley J. Weyman

Titles in Fiction category:

• From the Memoirs of a Minister of France

  Foreseeing that some who do not love me will be swift to allege that in the preparation of these memoirs I have set down only such things as redound to my credit, and have suppressed the many experiences not so propitious which fall to the lot of the most sagacious while in power, I take ...

• Gentleman of France, A

  The death of the Prince of Conde, which occurred in the spring of 1588, by depriving me of my only patron, reduced me to such straits that the winter of that year, which saw the King of Navarre come to spend his Christmas at St. Jean d'Angely, saw also the nadir of my fortunes. I did not know ...

• House of the Wolf, The

  The following is a modern English version of a curious French memoir, or fragment of autobiography, apparently written about the year 1620 by Anne, Vicomte de Caylus, and brought to this country--if, in fact, the original ever existed in England--by one of his descendants after the Revocation o ...

• Under the Red Robe

  'Marked cards!'

Titles in Short Stories category:

• Fowl in the Pot, The

  An Episode Adapted from the Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully