# The Indiscreet Jewels — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for The Indiscreet Jewels by Denis Diderot.

- [Dedication](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/dedication.md): The author dedicates the book to Zima, urging her to read it secretly and without fear, noting that other scandalous works have been found under her pillow. He reveals that the virtuous Aglaé contributed to the manuscrip
- [The Indiscreet Toys](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/the-indiscreet-toys.md): The chapter introduces the fantastical world of the Sultan Mangogul and the magical ring bestowed upon him by the Genius Cucufa, which has the power to make women's most secret thoughts and desires speak aloud. Through a
- [Birth of Mangogul](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/i-birth-of-mangogul.md): Mangogul is born in Congo during a time of political upheaval. His father, Sultan Erguebzed, rejects fairy education and instead summons the astrologer Codindo to cast his son's horoscope. Codindo, however, admits his in
- [Education of Mangogul](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/ii-education-of-mangogul.md): Mangogul's early education under Erguebzed's direction, his rapid acquisition of princely skills, his ascension to the throne, and his successful reign as a great and amiable sultan, including his liberal reforms in the 
- [III: Which May Be Regarded as the First of This History](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/iii-which-may-be-regarded-as-the-first-of-this-history.md): Mangogul and Mirzoza, having exhausted their passionate confidences and scandalous narratives, find themselves in a rare moment of boredom. Mirzoza diagnoses the Sultan's ennui and suggests consulting the Genius Cucufa f

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- [Evocation of the Genius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/iv-evocation-of-the-genius.md)
- [Mangogul's Dangerous Temptation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/v-mangogul-s-dangerous-temptation.md)
- [First Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/vi-first-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [VII: Second Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/vii-second-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [VIII: Third Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/viii-third-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [IX: The State of the Academy of Sciences at Banza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/ix-the-state-of-the-academy-of-sciences-at-banza.md)
- [X: Less Learned and Less Tedious Than the Preceding. Continuation of the Academical Sitting](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/x-less-learned-and-less-tedious-than-the-preceding-continuation-of-the-academical-sitting.md)
- [XI: Fourth Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xi-fourth-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [XII: Fifth Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xii-fifth-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [XIII: Of the Opera at Banza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xiii-of-the-opera-at-banza.md)
- [XIV: Orcotomus's Experiments](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xiv-orcotomus-s-experiments.md)
- [XV: The Bramins](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xv-the-bramins.md)
- [XVI: The Muzzles](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xvi-the-muzzles.md)
- [XVII: The Two Devouts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xvii-the-two-devouts.md)
- [XVIII: The Toyman's Return](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xviii-the-toyman-s-return.md)
- [XIX: Seventh Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xix-seventh-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [XX: Eighth Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xx-eighth-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [XXI: Ninth Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxi-ninth-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [A Sketch of Mangogul's Moral Philosophy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxii-a-sketch-of-mangogul-s-moral-philosophy.md)
- [Tenth Trial of the Ring: The Dogs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxiii-tenth-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [Eleventh Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxiv-eleventh-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [Twelfth Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxv-twelfth-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [XXVI: Mirzoza's Metaphysics](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxvi-mirzoza-s-metaphysics.md)
- [Sequel of the Preceding Conversation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxvii-sequel-of-the-preceding-conversation.md)
- [XXVIII: Thirteenth Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxviii-thirteenth-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [The Best Perhaps, and the Least Read of This History](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxix-the-best-perhaps-and-the-least-read-of-this-history.md)
- [XXX: Fourteenth Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxx-fourteenth-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [Was Mangogul in the Right?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxxi-was-mangogul-in-the-right.md)
- [The Fifteenth Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxxii-the-fifteenth-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [XXXIII: Sixteenth Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxxiii-sixteenth-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [Seventeenth Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxxiv-seventeenth-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [Conversation on Literature](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxxv-conversation-on-literature.md)
- [Eighteenth and Nineteenth Trials of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxxvi-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-trials-of-the-ring.md)
- [XXXVII: Mirzoza’s Dream](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxxvii-mirzoza-s-dream.md)
- [Twenty-First and Twenty-Second Trials of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxxviii-twenty-first-and-twenty-second-trials-of-the-ring.md)
- [XXXIX: Dreams](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xxxix-dreams.md)
- [Twenty-Third Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xl-twenty-third-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [The History of Selim's Travels](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xli-the-history-of-selim-s-travels.md)
- [Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Fifth Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xlii-twenty-fourth-and-twenty-fifth-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [XLIII: Selim at Banza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xliii-selim-at-banza.md)
- [XLIV: Twenty-Sixth Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xliv-twenty-sixth-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [Cydalisa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xlv-cydalisa.md)
- [Twenty-Seventh Trial of the Ring: Fulvia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xlvi-twenty-seventh-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [Prodigious Events of the Reign of Kanaglou, Mangogul’s Grandfather](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xlvii-prodigious-events-of-the-reign-of-kanaglou-mangogul-s-grandfather.md)
- [Twenty-Eighth Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xlviii-twenty-eighth-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [Chapter XLIX: Twenty-Ninth Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/xlix-twenty-ninth-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [Platonic Love](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/l-platonic-love.md)
- [Thirtieth and Last Trial of the Ring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/li-thirtieth-and-last-trial-of-the-ring.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_indiscreet_jewels_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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