Thus ends, not the family of Ganges, but the commotion which the
family made in the world.  From time to time, indeed, the playwright
or the novelist calls up the pale and bloodstained figure of the
marquise to appear either on the stage or in a book; but the
evocation almost always ceases at her, and many persons who have
written about the mother do not even know what became of the
children.  Our intention has been to fill this gap; that is why we
have tried to tell what our predecessors left out, and try offer to
our readers what the stage--and often the actual world--offers;
comedy after melodrama. 

End of Project Gutenberg's Etext of Marquise de Ganges, by Dumas, Pere