Alexandre Dumas



The Vicomte de Bragelonne

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Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)

The Vicomte de Bragelonne

Table of Contents


Chapter 1:The Letter
Chapter 2:The Messenger
Chapter 3:The Interview
Chapter 4:Father and Son
Chapter 5:In Which Something will be Said of Cropoli—of Cropoli and of a Great Unknown Painter
Chapter 6:The Unknown
Chapter 7:Parry
Chapter 8:What His Majesty King Louis XIV. Was at the Age of Twenty-Two
Chapter 9:In Which the Unknown of the Hostelry of Les Medici Loses His Incognito
Chapter 10:The Arithmetic of M. de Mazarin
Chapter 11:Mazarin’s Policy
Chapter 12:The King and the Lieutenant
Chapter 13:Mary de Mancini
Chapter 14:In Which the King and the Lieutenant Each Give Proofs of Memory
Chapter 15:The Proscribed
Chapter 16:“Remember!”
Chapter 17:In Which Aramis is Sought, and Only Bazin is Found
Chapter 18:In Which D’Artagnan Seeks Porthos, and Only Finds Mousqueton
Chapter 19:What D’Artagnan Went to Paris For
Chapter 20:Of the Society Which was Formed in the Rue des Lombards, at the Sign of the Pilon d’Or, to Carry Out M. d’Artagnan’s Idea
Chapter 21:In Which D’Artagnan Prepares to Travel for the Firm of Planchet & Company
Chapter 22:D’Artagnan Travels for the House of Planchet and Company
Chapter 23:In Which the Author, Very Unwillingly, is Forced to Write a Little History
Chapter 24:The Treasure
Chapter 25:The Marsh
Chapter 26:Heart and Mind
Chapter 27:The Next Day
Chapter 28:Smuggling
Chapter 29:In Which D’Artagnan Begins to Fear He Has Placed His Money and That of Planchet in the Sinking Fund
Chapter 30:The Shares of Planchet and Company Rise Again to Par
Chapter 31:Monk Reveals Himself
Chapter 32:Athos and D’Artagnan Meet Once More at the Hostelry of the Corne du Cerf
Chapter 33:The Audience
Chapter 34:Of the Embarrassment of Riches
Chapter 35:On the Canal
Chapter 36:How D’Artagnan Drew, as a Fairy Would Have Done, a Country-Seat from a Deal Box
Chapter 37:How D’Artagnan Regulated the “Assets” of the Company Before He Established Its “Liabilities”
Chapter 38:In Which It Is Seen that the French Grocer Had Already Been Established in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 39:Mazarin’s Gaming Party
Chapter 40:An Affair of State
Chapter 41:The Recital
Chapter 42:In Which Mazarin Becomes Prodigal
Chapter 43:Guénaud
Chapter 44:Colbert
Chapter 45:Confession of a Man of Wealth
Chapter 46:The Donation
Chapter 47:How Anne of Austria Gave One Piece of Advice to Louis XIV., and How M. Fouquet Gave Him Another
Chapter 48:Agony
Chapter 49:The First Appearance of Colbert
Chapter 50:The First Day of the Royalty of Louis XIV.
Chapter 51:A Passion
Chapter 52:D’Artagnan’s Lesson
Chapter 53:The King
Chapter 54:The Houses of M. Fouquet
Chapter 55:The Abbé Fouquet
Chapter 56:M. de la Fontaine’s Wine
Chapter 57:The Gallery of Saint-Mandé
Chapter 58:Epicureans
Chapter 59:A Quarter of an Hour’s Delay
Chapter 60:Plan of Battle
Chapter 61:The Cabaret of the Image-de-Notre-Dame
Chapter 62:Vive Colbert!
Chapter 63:How M. d’Eymeris’s Diamond Passed into the Hands of M. d’Artagnan
Chapter 64:Of the Notable Difference D’Artagnan Finds Between Monsieur the Intendant and Monsieur the Superintendent
Chapter 65:Philosophy of the Heart and Mind
Chapter 66:The Journey
Chapter 67:How D’Artagnan Became Acquainted with a Poet, Who Had Turned Printer for the Sake of Printing His Own Verses
Chapter 68:D’Artagnan Continues His Investigations
Chapter 69:In Which the Reader, No Doubt, Will be as Astonished as D’Artagnan Was to Meet an Old Acquaintance
Chapter 70:Wherein the Ideas of D’Artagnan, At First Strangely Clouded, Begin to Clear Up a Little
Chapter 71:A Procession at Vannes
Chapter 72:The Grandeur of the Bishop of Vannes
Chapter 73:In Which Porthos Begins to be Sorry for Having Come with D’Artagnan
Chapter 74:In Which D’Artagnan Makes All Speed, Porthos Snores, and Aramis Counsels
Chapter 75:In Which Monsieur Fouquet Acts
Chapter 76:In Which D’Artagnan Finishes by at Length Placing His Hand upon His Captain’s Commission
Chapter 77:A Lover and His Mistress
Chapter 78:In Which We at Length See the True Heroine of This History Appear
Chapter 79:Malicorne and Manicamp
Chapter 80:Manicamp and Malicorne
Chapter 81:The Courtyard of the Hôtel Grammont
Chapter 82:The Portrait of Madame
Chapter 83:Le Havre
Chapter 84:At Sea
Chapter 85:The Tents
Chapter 86:Night
Chapter 87:From Le Havre to Paris
Chapter 88:An Account of What the Chevalier de Lorraine Thought of Madame
Chapter 89:A Surprise for Raoul
Chapter 90:The Consent of Athos
Chapter 91:Monsieur Becomes Jealous of the Duke of Buckingham
Chapter 92:Forever!
Chapter 93:King Louis XIV. Does Not Think Mademoiselle de la Vallière Either Rich Enough or Pretty Enough for a Gentleman of the Rank of the Vicomte de Bragelonne
Chapter 94:Sword-Thrusts in the Water
Chapter 95:Sword-Thrusts in the Water (concluded)
Chapter 96:Baisemeaux de Montlezun
Chapter 97:The King’s Card-Table
Chapter 98:M. Baisemeaux de Montlezun’s Accounts
Chapter 99:The Breakfast at Monsieur de Baisemeaux’s
Chapter 100:The Second Floor of La Bertaudière
Chapter 101:The Two Friends
Chapter 102:Madame de Bellière’s Plate
Chapter 103:The Dowry
Chapter 104:Le Terrain de Dieu
Chapter 105:Threefold Love
Chapter 106:M. de Lorraine’s Jealousy
Chapter 107:Monsieur is Jealous of Guiche
Chapter 108:The Mediator
Chapter 109:The Advisers
Chapter 110:Fontainebleau
Chapter 111:The Bath
Chapter 112:The Butterfly-Chase
Chapter 113:What Was Caught After the Butterflies
Chapter 114:The Ballet of the Seasons
Chapter 115:The Nymphs of the Park of Fontainebleau
Chapter 116:What Was Said Under the Royal Oak
Chapter 117:The King’s Uneasiness
Chapter 118:The King’s Secret
Chapter 119:Courses de Nuit
Chapter 120:In Which Madame Acquires a Proof that Listeners Hear What Is Said
Chapter 121:Aramis’s Correspondence
Chapter 122:The Orderly Clerk
Chapter 123:Fontainebleau at Two O’Clock in the Morning
Chapter 124:The Labyrinth
Chapter 125:How Malicorne Had Been Turned Out of the Hotel of the Beau Paon
Chapter 126:What Actually Occurred at the Inn Called the Beau Paon
Chapter 127:A Jesuit of the Eleventh Year
Chapter 128:The State Secret
Chapter 129:A Mission
Chapter 130:Happy as a Prince
Chapter 131:Story of a Dryad and a Naiad
Chapter 132:Conclusion of the Story of a Naiad and of a Dryad
Chapter 133:Royal Psychology
Chapter 134:Something That Neither Naiad nor Dryad Foresaw
Chapter 135:The New General of the Jesuits
Chapter 136:The Storm
Chapter 137:The Shower of Rain
Chapter 138:Toby
Chapter 139:Madame’s Four Chances
Chapter 140:The Lottery
Chapter 141:Malaga
Chapter 142:A Letter from M. Baisemeaux
Chapter 143:In Which the Reader will be Delighted to Find that Porthos Has Lost Nothing of His Muscularity
Chapter 144:The Rat and the Cheese
Chapter 145:Planchet’s Country-House
Chapter 146:Showing What Could Be Seen from Planchet’s House
Chapter 147:How Porthos, Trüchen, and Planchet Parted with Each Other on Friendly Terms, Thanks to D’Artagnan
Chapter 148:The Presentation of Porthos at Court
Chapter 149:Explanations
Chapter 150:Madame and De Guiche
Chapter 151:Montalais and Malicorne
Chapter 152:How De Wardes Was Received at Court
Chapter 153:The Combat
Chapter 154:The King’s Supper
Chapter 155:After Supper
Chapter 156:Showing in What Way D’Artagnan Discharged the Mission with Which the King Had Intrusted Him
Chapter 157:The Encounter
Chapter 158:The Physician
Chapter 159:Wherein D’Artagnan Perceives that It Was He Who Was Mistaken, and Manicamp Who Was Right
Chapter 160:Showing the Advantage of Having Two Strings to One’s Bow
Chapter 161:M. Malicorne the Keeper of the Records of France
Chapter 162:The Journey
Chapter 163:Triumfeminate
Chapter 164:The First Quarrel
Chapter 165:Despair
Chapter 166:The Flight
Chapter 167:Showing How Louis, on His Part, Had Passed the Time from Ten to Half-Past Twelve at Night
Chapter 168:The Ambassadors
Chapter 169:Chaillot
Chapter 170:Madame
Chapter 171:Mademoiselle de la Vallière’s Pocket-Handkerchief
Chapter 172:Which Treats of Gardeners, of Ladders, and Maids of Honor
Chapter 173:Which Treats of Carpentry Operations, and Furnishes Details upon the Mode of Constructing Staircases
Chapter 174:The Promenade by Torchlight
Chapter 175:The Apparition
Chapter 176:The Portrait
Chapter 177:Hampton Court
Chapter 178:The Courier from Madame
Chapter 179:Saint-Aignan Follows Malicorne’s Advice
Chapter 180:Two Old Friends
Chapter 181:Wherein May Be Seen that a Bargain Which Cannot Be Made with One Person, Can Be Carried Out with Another
Chapter 182:The Skin of the Bear
Chapter 183:An Interview with the Queen-Mother
Chapter 184:Two Friends
Chapter 185:How Jean de La Fontaine Came to Write His First Tale
Chapter 186:La Fontaine in the Character of a Negotiator
Chapter 187:Madame de Bellière’s Plate and Diamonds
Chapter 188:M. de Mazarin’s Receipt
Chapter 189:Monsieur Colbert’s Rough Draft
Chapter 190:In Which the Author Thinks It Is High Time to Return to the Vicomte de Bragelonne
Chapter 191:Bragelonne Continues His Inquiries
Chapter 192:Two Jealousies
Chapter 193:A Domiciliary Visit
Chapter 194:Porthos’s Plan of Action
Chapter 195:The Change of Residence, the Trap-Door, and the Portrait
Chapter 196:Rivals in Politics
Chapter 197:Rivals in Love
Chapter 198:King and Noble
Chapter 199:After the Storm
Chapter 200:Heu! Miser!
Chapter 201:Wounds within Wounds
Chapter 202:What Raoul Had Guessed
Chapter 203:Three Guests Astonished to Find Themselves at Supper Together
Chapter 204:What Took Place at the Louvre During the Supper at the Bastile
Chapter 205:Political Rivals
Chapter 206:In Which Porthos Is Convinced without Having Understood Anything
Chapter 207:M. de Baisemeaux’s “Society”
Chapter 208:The Prisoner
Chapter 209:How Mouston Had Become Fatter without Giving Porthos Notice Thereof, and of the Troubles Which Consequently Befell that Worthy Gentleman
Chapter 210:Who Messire Jean Percerin Was
Chapter 211:The Patterns
Chapter 212:Where, Probably, Molière Obtained His First Idea of the Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Chapter 213:The Bee-Hive, the Bees, and the Honey
Chapter 214:Another Supper at the Bastile
Chapter 215:The General of the Order
Chapter 216:The Tempter
Chapter 217:Crown and Tiara
Chapter 218:The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
Chapter 219:The Wine of Melun
Chapter 220:Nectar and Ambrosia
Chapter 221:A Gascon, and a Gascon and a Half
Chapter 222:Colbert
Chapter 223:Jealousy
Chapter 224:High Treason
Chapter 225:A Night at the Bastile
Chapter 226:The Shadow of M. Fouquet
Chapter 227:The Morning
Chapter 228:The King’s Friend
Chapter 229:Showing How the Countersign Was Respected at the Bastile
Chapter 230:The King’s Gratitude
Chapter 231:The False King
Chapter 232:In Which Porthos Thinks He Is Pursuing a Duchy
Chapter 233:The Last Adieux
Chapter 234:Monsieur de Beaufort
Chapter 235:Preparations for Departure
Chapter 236:Planchet’s Inventory
Chapter 237:The Inventory of M. de Beaufort
Chapter 238:The Silver Dish
Chapter 239:Captive and Jailers
Chapter 240:Promises
Chapter 241:Among Women
Chapter 242:The Last Supper
Chapter 243:In M. Colbert’s Carriage
Chapter 244:The Two Lighters
Chapter 245:Friendly Advice
Chapter 246:How the King, Louis XIV., Played His Little Part
Chapter 247:The White Horse and the Black
Chapter 248:In Which the Squirrel Falls,—the Adder Flies
Chapter 249:Belle-Île-en-Mer
Chapter 250:Explanations by Aramis
Chapter 251:Result of the Ideas of the King, and the Ideas of D’Artagnan
Chapter 252:The Ancestors of Porthos
Chapter 253:The Son of Biscarrat
Chapter 254:The Grotto of Locmaria
Chapter 255:The Grotto
Chapter 256:An Homeric Song
Chapter 257:The Death of a Titan
Chapter 258:Porthos’s Epitaph
Chapter 259:M. de Gesvres’s Round
Chapter 260:King Louis XIV.
Chapter 261:M. Fouquet’s Friends
Chapter 262:Porthos’s Will
Chapter 263:The Old Age of Athos
Chapter 264:Athos’s Vision
Chapter 265:The Angel of Death
Chapter 266:The Bulletin
Chapter 267:The Last Canto of the Poem
Epilogue
The Death of D’Artagnan




Catalogue of Titles


Chapter 1