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Copyright 1912 By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1912
II YOUTH--MY FATHER'S DEATH--MY MARRIAGE 15
III ARRIVAL IN PARIS. A SEPARATION. MARTHE. PARISIAN LIFE 29
VIII THE MYSTERIOUS PEARL NECKLACE--THE DEATH OF FÉLIX FAURE 106
IX AFTER PRESIDENT FAURE'S DEATH: THE DOCUMENTS--THE NECKLACE 116
XVIII M. CHARLES SAUERWEIN AND THE ROSSIGNOL AFFAIR 236
XX THE SO-CALLED "NIGHT OF THE CONFESSION" (NOVEMBER 25-26, 1908) 269
XXIII ALBA GHIRELLI, MARGUERITE ROSSELLI AND THE "MATIN" 310
XXVII THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE DAYS IN PRISON 374
XXVIII THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE DAYS IN PRISON (_continued_) 398
XXX THE SPEECH FOR THE PROSECUTION--THE SPEECH FOR THE DEFENCE 437
The Gold Box in which President Faure sent me the Pearl Necklace 110
Invitation to the Félix Faure "In Memoriam Service" 116
Facsimile of the letter I sent to my Mother at Beaucourt a few days before the Crime 150
A view of the verandah of the house in the Impasse Ronsin 162
The Bed on which I was bound during the "Fatal Night" 166
The Desk in the Boudoir from which the Money and the dummy-parcel of Documents were stolen on May 30-31 182
A view of the House in the Impasse Ronsin 224
Alexandre Wolff and his Mother, Mariette Wolff 262
My Cell, showing Juliette, my fellow prisoner, seated on her bed 382
My Counsel, Maître A. Aubin; The Judge, M. de Valles; and the Advocate General, M. Trouard Riolle 450
Plan of the first floor of the house in the Impasse Ronsin 479
(_"Monsieur et Madame Edouard Japy have the honour to inform you of the birth of a daughter." Beaucourt, April, 16th, 1869._)
Beaucourt is a village in the "Belfort Territory," not far from the Swiss and German frontiers. It was in that village, at the "Château Edouard"--all large mansions in that region are called "châteaux," and the name of the owner is added to the word--that I was born some forty years ago.
Beaucourt and nearly all of the surrounding country belongs to, or is dependent upon, the Japy family, whose vast factories and mills give a living to thousands of workmen.