The Countess of Saint Geran

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The Countess of Saint Geran, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere, comes from the set of Eight Volumes of Celebrated Crimes. A passage says that about the end of the year 1639 a troop of horsemen arrived, towards midday, in a little village at the northern extremity of the province of Auvergne, from the direction of Paris. The country folk, the text says, assembled at the noise and found it to proceed from the provost of the mounted police and his men.

A passage describes the provost as a portly man, with a puffy face, whom fatigue rendered singularly uncomfortable. A speaker says he can hardly remember a woman's name, Louise Boyard, he thinks, or Polliard, one or the other. The text records a judgment given in a sitting at the Tournelle by M. de Mesmes, on the 18th of August 1657, and says La Pigoreau was forbidden to leave the city and suburbs of Paris under penalty of summary conviction.

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Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas wrote at industrial scale, with a workshop behind him, and the most important member of it was Auguste Maquet, who drafted plots and researched the novels that went out under Dumas's name alone.