Read "The Forty-Five Guardsmen" by Alexandre Dumas online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
M. de Mayenne, with whom they were so much occupied at the Louvre, set out from the Hotel Guise, booted and on horseback, as though he had just arrived. He was received by the king affectionately.
"Well, cousin," said he, "you have, then, come to visit Paris?"