BOOK ONE
1. A Small Town
2. A Mayor
3. The Bread of the Poor
4. Father and Son
5. Driving a Bargain
6. Dullness
7. Elective Affinities
8. Minor Events
9. An Evening in the Country
10. A Large Heart and a Small Fortune
11. Night Thoughts
12. A Journey
13. Open-work Stockings
14. The English Scissors
15. Cock-crow
16. The Day After
17. The Principal Deputy
18. A King at Verrieres
19. To Think Is To Be Full of Sorrow
20. The Anonymous Letters
21. Conversation with a Lord and Master
22. Manners and Customs in 1830
23. The Sorrows of an Official
24. A Capital
25. The Seminary
26. The World, or What the Rich Lack
27. First Experience of Life
28. A Procession
29. The First Step
30. Ambition
BOOK TWO
1. Country Pleasures
2. First Appearance in Society
3. First Steps
4. The Hotel de La Mole
5. Sensibility and a Pious Lady
6. Pronunciation
7. An Attack of Gout
8. What Is the Decoration that Confers Distinction?
9. The Ball
10. Queen Marguerite
11. The Tyranny of a Girl
12. Another Danton
13. A Plot
14. A Girl’s Thoughts
15. Is it a Plot?
16. One o’Clock in the Morning
17. An Old Sword
18. Painful Moments
19. The Opera?Bouffe
20. The Japanese Vase
21. The Secret Note
22. The Discussion
23. The Clergy, their Forests, Liberty
24. Strasbourg
25. The Office of Virtue
26. Moral Love
27. The Best Positions in the Church
28. Manon Lescaut
29. Boredom
30. A Box at the Bouffes
31. Making Her Afraid
32. The Tiger
33. The Torment of the Weak
34. A Man of Spirit
35. A Storm
36. Painful Details
37. A Dungeon
38. A Man of Power
39. Intrigue
40. Tranquillity
41. The Trial
42. In the Prison
43. Last Adieux
44. The Shadow of the Guillotine
45. Exit Julien
To The Happy Few