Editing Alexandre Dumas (section)

==== The Marie Antoinette romances ====
The [[Marie Antoinette]] romances comprise eight novels. The unabridged versions (normally 100 chapters or more) comprise only five books (numbers 1, 3, 4, 7 and 8); the short versions (50 chapters or less) number eight in total:
# ''Joseph Balsamo'' (''Mémoires d'un médecin: Joseph Balsamo'', 1846–48) (a.k.a. ''Memoirs of a Physician'', ''[[Alessandro Cagliostro|Cagliostro]]'', ''[[Madame Dubarry]]'', ''The Countess Dubarry'', or ''The Elixir of Life''). ''Joseph Balsamo'' is about 1000 pages long, and is usually published in two volumes in English translations: Vol 1. ''Joseph Balsamo'' and Vol 2. ''Memoirs of a Physician''.  The long unabridged version includes the contents of book two, Andrée de Taverney; the short abridged versions usually are divided in ''Balsamo'' and ''Andrée de Taverney'' as completely different books.
# ''Andrée de Taverney'', or ''The Mesmerist's Victim''
# ''[[The Queen's Necklace]]'' (''Le Collier de la Reine'', (1849−1850)
# ''Ange Pitou'' (1853) (a.k.a. ''Storming the Bastille'' or ''Six Years Later''). From this book, there are long unabridged versions which include the contents of book five, but there are many short versions that treat "The Hero of the People" as a separated volume.
# ''The Hero of the People''
# ''The Royal Life Guard or The Flight of the Royal Family.''
# ''The Countess de Charny'' (''La Comtesse de Charny'', 1853–1855). As with other books, there are long unabridged versions which include the contents of book six; but many short versions that leave contents in ''The Royal Life Guard'' as a separate volume.
# ''[[Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge]]'' (1845) (a.k.a. ''The Knight of the Red House'', or ''The Knight of Maison-Rouge'')