Ten Years Later
- The Letter.
- Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o’clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of…
- The Messenger.
- Mademoiselle de Montalais was right; the young cavalier was goodly to look upon.
- The Interview.
- Raoul made one step towards the girl who thus called him.
- Father and Son.
- Raoul followed the well-known road, so dear to his memory, which led from Blois to the residence of the Comte de la Fere.
- In which Something will be said of Cropoli--of Cropoli and of a Great Unknown Painter.
- Whilst the Comte de la Fere with Raoul visits the new buildings he has had erected, and the new horses he has bought, with the reader’s permission we will lead him back to the city of Blois, and…
- The Unknown.
- Thus founded and recommended by its sign, the hostelry of Master Cropole held its way steadily on towards a solid prosperity.
- Parry.
- Whilst the unknown was viewing these lights with interest, and lending an ear to the various noises, Master Cropole entered his apartment, followed by two attendants, who laid the cloth for his meal.
- What his Majesty King Louis XIV. was at the Age of Twenty-Two
- It has been seen, by the account we have endeavored to give of it, that the entree of King Louis XIV. into the city of Blois had been noisy and brilliant his young majesty had therefore appeared…
- In which the Unknown of the Hostelry of Les Medici loses his Incognito.
- This officer, who was sleeping, or preparing to sleep, was, notwithstanding his careless air, charged with a serious responsibility.
- The Arithmetic of M. de Mazarin
- Whilst the king was directing his course rapidly towards the wing of the castle occupied by the cardinal, taking nobody with him but his valet de chambre, the officer of musketeers came out,…
- Mazarin’s Policy
- Instead of the hesitation with which he had accosted the cardinal a quarter of an hour before, there might be read in the eyes of the young king that will against which a struggle might be…
- The King and the Lieutenant
- As soon as the king saw the officer enter, he dismissed his valet de chambre and his gentleman. “Who is on duty to-morrow, monsieur?” asked he.
- Mary de Mancini
- The sun had scarcely shed its first beams on the majestic trees of the park and the lofty turrets of the castle, when the young king, who had been awake more than two hours, possessed by the…
- In which the King and the Lieutenant each give Proofs of Memory
- When the king, like all the people in the world who are in love, had long and attentively watched disappear in the distance the carriage which bore away his mistress; when he had turned and turned…
- The Proscribed
- D’Artagnan had not reached the bottom of the staircase, when the king called his gentleman. “I have a commission to give you, monsieur,” said he.
- “Remember!”
- A horseman was going rapidly along the road leading towards Blois, which he had left nearly half an hour before, passed the two travelers, and, though apparently in haste, raised his hat as he passed…
- In which Aramis is sought and only Bazin is found
- Two hours had scarcely elapsed since the departure of the master of the house, who, in Blaisois’s sight, had taken the road to Paris, when a horseman, mounted on a good pied horse, stopped before…
- In which D’Artagnan seeks Porthos, and only finds Mousqueton
- When D’Artagnan had perfectly convinced himself that the absence of the Vicar-General d’Herblay was real, and that his friend was not to be found at Melun or in its vicinity, he left Bazin…
- What D’Artagnan went to Paris for
- The lieutenant dismounted before a shop in the Rue des Lombards, at the sign of the Pilon d’Or. A man of good appearance, wearing a white apron, and stroking his gray mustache with a large hand,…
- 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
- After a moment’s silence, in which D’Artagnan appeared to be collecting, not one idea, but all his ideas--”It cannot be, my dear Planchet,” said he, “that you have not heard of his majesty…
- In which D’Artagnan prepares to travel for the Firm of Planchet and Company
- D’Artagnan reflected to such good purpose during the night that his plan was settled by morning. “This is it,” said he, sitting up in bed, supporting his elbow on his knee, and his chin in his…
- D’Artagnan travels for the House of Planchet and Company
- The hostelry of “Le Grand Monarque” was situated in a little street parallel to the port without looking out upon the port itself. Some lanes cut--as steps cut the two parallels of the…
- In which the Author, very unwillingly, is forced to write a Little History
- While kings and men were thus occupied with England, which governed itself quite alone, and which, it must be said in its praise, had never been so badly governed, a man upon whom God had fixed his…
- The Treasure
- The French gentleman whom Spithead had announced to Monk, and who, closely wrapped in his cloak, had passed by the fishermen who left the general’s tent five minutes before he entered it,--the…
- The March
- Athos and Monk passed over, in going from the camp towards the Tweed, that part of the ground which Digby had traversed with the fishermen coming from the Tweed to the camp. The aspect of this place,…
- Heart and Mind
- “My lord,” said the Comte de la Fere, “you are a noble Englishman, you are a loyal man; you are speaking to a noble Frenchman, to a man of heart. The gold contained in these two casks before…
- The Next Day
- It was seven o’clock in the morning, the first rays of day lightened the pools of the marsh, in which the sun was reflected like a red ball, when Athos, awaking and opening the window of his…
- Smuggling
- Two days after the events we have just related, and while General Monk was expected every minute in the camp to which he did not return, a little Dutch felucca, manned by eleven men, cast anchor upon…
- In which D’Artagnan begins to fear he has placed his Money and that of Planchet in the Sinking Fund
- The king could not overcome his surprise, and looked sometimes at the smiling face of the musketeer, and sometimes at the dark window which opened into the night. But before he had fixed his ideas,…
- The Shares of Planchet and Company rise again to Par
- During the passage, Monk only spoke to D’Artagnan in cases of urgent necessity. Thus, when the Frenchman hesitated to come and take his meals, poor meals, composed of salt fish, biscuit, and…
- Monk reveals himself
- D’Artagnan, although he flattered himself with better success, had, nevertheless, not too well comprehended his situation. It was a strange and grave subject for him to reflect upon--this voyage of…
- Athos and D’Artagnan meet once more at the Hostelry of the Corne du Cerf
- The king of England made his entree into Dover with great pomp, as he afterwards did in London. He had sent for his brothers; he had brought over his mother and sister. England had been for so long a…
- The Audience.
- “Well?” cried Athos with a mild look of reproach when D’Artagnan had read the letter addressed to him by Monk.
- Of the Embarrassment of Riches
- D’Artagnan lost no time, and as soon as the thing was suitable and opportune, he paid a visit to the lord treasurer of his majesty. He had then the satisfaction to exchange a piece of paper,…
- On the Canal
- Upon the green waters of the canal bordered with marble, upon which time had already scattered black spots and tufts of mossy grass, there glided majestically a long, flat bark adorned with the arms…
- How D’Artagnan drew, as a Fairy would have done, a Country-seat from a Deal Box
- The king’s words regarding the wounded pride of Monk had not inspired D’Artagnan with a small portion of apprehension. The lieutenant had had, all his life, the great art of choosing his enemies;…
- How D’Artagnan regulated the “Assets” of the Company before he established its “Liabilities”
- “Decidedly,” said D’Artagnan to himself, “I have struck a good vein. That star which shines once in the life of every man, which shone for Job and Iris, the most unfortunate of the Jews and…
- In which it is seen that the French Grocer had already been established in the Seventeenth Century
- His accounts once settled, and his recommendations made, D’Artagnan thought of nothing but returning to Paris as soon as possible. Athos, on his part, was anxious to reach home and to rest a…
- Mazarin’s Gaming Party
- In a large chamber of the Palais Royal, hung with a dark colored velvet, which threw into strong relief the gilded frames of a great number of magnificent pictures, on the evening of the arrival of…
- An Affair of State
- The cardinal, on passing into his cabinet, found the Comte de la Fere, who was waiting for him, engaged in admiring a very fine Raphael placed over a sideboard covered with plate. His eminence came…
- The Recital
- The maliciousness of the cardinal did not leave much for the ambassador to say; nevertheless, the word “restoration” had struck the king, who, addressing the comte, upon whom his eyes had been…
- In which Mazarin becomes Prodigal
- Whilst Mazarin was endeavoring to recover from the serious alarm he had just experienced, Athos and Raoul were exchanging a few words in a corner of the apartment. “Well, here you are at Paris,…
- Guenaud
- The cardinal’s order was pressing; Guenaud quickly obeyed it. He found his patient stretched on his bed, his legs swelled, his face livid, and his stomach collapsed. Mazarin had a severe attack of…
- Colbert
- Colbert was not far off. During the whole evening he had remained in one of the corridors, chatting with Bernouin and Brienne, and commenting, with the ordinary skill of people of a court, upon the…
- Confession of a Man of Wealth
- The Theatin entered deliberately, without being too much astonished at the noise and agitation which anxiety for the cardinal’s health had raised in his household. “Come in, my reverend…
- The Donation
- Colbert reappeared beneath the curtains.
- How Anne of Austria gave one Piece of Advice to Louis XIV., and how M. Fouquet gave him another
- The news of the extreme illness of the cardinal had already spread, and attracted at least as much attention among the people of the Louvre as the news of the marriage of Monsieur, the king’s…
- Agony
- The day that the deed of gift had been sent to the king, the cardinal caused himself to be transported to Vincennes. The king and the court followed him thither. The last flashes of this torch still…
- The First Appearance of Colbert
- The whole night was passed in anguish, common to the dying man and to the king: the dying man expected his deliverance, the king awaited his liberty. Louis did not go to bed. An hour after leaving…
- The First Day of the Royalty of Louis XIV
- In the morning, the news of the death of the cardinal was spread through the castle, and thence speedily reached the city. The ministers Fouquet, Lyonne, and Letellier entered la salle des seances,…
- A Passion
- The day of his arrival, on returning from the Palais Royal, Athos, as we have seen, went straight to his hotel in the Rue Saint-Honore. He there found the Vicomte de Bragelonne waiting for him in his…
- D’Artagnan’s Lesson
- Raoul did not meet with D’Artagnan the next day, as he had hoped. He only met with Planchet, whose joy was great at seeing the young man again, and who contrived to pay him two or three little…
- The King
- The first moment of surprise over, D’Artagnan reperused Athos’s note. “It is strange,” said he, “that the king should send for me.”
- The Houses of M. Fouquet
- Whilst D’Artagnan was returning to Planchet’s house, his head aching and bewildered with all that had happened to him, there was passing a scene of quite a different character, and which,…
- The Abbe Fouquet
- Fouquet hastened back to his apartment by the subterranean passage, and immediately closed the mirror with the spring. He was scarcely in his closet, when he heard some one knocking violently at the…
- M. de la Fontaine’s Wine
- Carriages were already bringing the guests of Fouquet to Saint-Mande; already the whole house was getting warm with the preparations for supper, when the superintendent launched his fleet horses upon…
- The Gallery of Saint-Mande
- Fifty persons were waiting for the superintendent. He did not even take the time to place himself in the hands of his valet de chambre for a minute, but from the perron went straight into the premier…
- Epicureans
- As Fouquet was giving, or appearing to give, all his attention to the brilliant illuminations, the languishing music of the violins and hautboys, the sparkling sheaves of the artificial fires, which,…
- A Quarter of an Hour’s Delay
- Fouquet, on leaving his house for the second time that day, felt himself less heavy and less disturbed than might have been expected. He turned towards Pellisson, who was meditating in the corner of…
- Plan of Battle
- The night was already far advanced when the Abbe Fouquet joined his brother. Gourville had accompanied him. These three men, pale with dread of future events, resembled less three powers of the day…
- The Cabaret of the Image-de-Notre-Dame
- At two o’clock the next day fifty thousand spectators had taken their position upon the Place, around the two gibbets which had been elevated between the Quai de la Greve and the Quai Pelletier;…
- Vive Colbert!
- The spectacle which the Greve now presented was a frightful one. The heads, leveled by the perspective, extended afar, thick and agitated as the ears of corn in a vast plain. From time to time a…
- How M. d’Eymeris’s Diamond passed into the Hands of M. D’Artagnan.
- Whilst this violent, noisy, and bloody scene was passing on the Greve, several men, barricaded behind the gate of communication with the garden, replaced their swords in their sheaths, assisted one…
- Of the Notable Difference D’Artagnan finds between Monsieur the Intendant and Monsieur the Superintendent
- M. Colbert resided in the Rue Neuve des Petits-Champs in a house which had belonged to Beautru. D’Artagnan’s legs cleared the distance in a short quarter of an hour. When he arrived at the…
- Philosophy of the Heart and Mind
- For a man who had seen so many much more dangerous ones, the position of D’Artagnan with respect to M. Colbert was only comic. D’Artagnan, therefore, did not deny himself the satisfaction of…
- The Journey
- It was perhaps the fiftieth time since the day on which we open this history, that this man. with a heart of bronze and muscles of steel, had left house and friends, everything, in short, to go in…
- How D’Artagnan became acquainted with a Poet, who had turned Printer for the sake of printing his own Verses
- Before taking his place at table, D’Artagnan acquired, as was his custom, all the information he could; but it is an axiom of curiosity, that every man who wishes to question well and fruitfully…
- D’Artagnan continues his Investigations
- At daybreak D’Artagnan saddled Furet, who had fared sumptuously all night, devouring the remainder of the oats and hay left by his companions. The musketeer sifted all he possibly could out of the…
- In which the Reader, no doubt, will be as astonished as D’Artagnan was to meet an Old Acquaintance
- There is always something in a landing, if it be only from the smallest sea-boat--a trouble and a confusion which do not leave the mind the liberty of which it stands in need in order to study at the…
- Wherein the Ideas of D’Artagnan, at first strangely clouded, begin to clear up a little
- D’Artagnan immediately took the offensive. Now that I have told you all, dear friend, or rather now you have guessed all, tell me what you are doing here, covered with dust and mud?”
- A Procession at Vannes
- The passage from Belle-Isle to Sarzeau was made rapidly enough, thanks to one of those little corsairs of which D’Artagnan had been told during his voyage, and which, shaped for fast sailing and…
- The Grandeur of the Bishop of Vannes
- Porthos and D’Artagnan had entered the bishop’s residence by a private door, as his personal friends. Of course, Porthos served D’Artagnan as guide. The worthy baron comported himself…
- In which Porthos begins to be sorry for having come with D’Artagnan
- Scarcely had D’Artagnan extinguished his taper, when Aramis, who had watched through his curtains the last glimmer of light in his friend’s apartment, traversed the corridor on tiptoe, and went…
- In which D’Artagnan makes all Speed, Porthos snores, and Aramis counsels
- From thirty to thirty-five hours after the events we have just related, as M. Fouquet, according to his custom, having interdicted his door, was working in the cabinet of his house at Saint-Mande,…
- In which Monsieur Fouquet acts
- In the meantime Fouquet was hastening to the Louvre, at the best speed of his English horses. The king was at work with Colbert. All at once the king became thoughtful. The two sentences of death he…
- In which D’Artagnan finishes by at length placing his Hand upon his Captain’s Commission
- The reader guesses beforehand whom the usher preceded in announcing the courier from Bretagne. This messenger was easily recognized. It was D’Artagnan, his clothes dusty, his face inflamed, his…
- A Lover and his Mistress
- Whilst the wax-lights were burning in the castle of Blois, around the inanimate body of Gaston of Orleans, that last representative of the past; whilst the bourgeois of the city were thinking out his…
- In which we at length see the true Heroine of this History appear
- Behind Madame de Saint-Remy stood Mademoiselle de la Valliere. She heard the explosion of maternal anger, and as she divined the cause of it, she entered the chamber trembling, and perceived the…
- Malicorne and Manicamp
- The introduction of these two new personages into this history and that mysterious affinity of names and sentiments, merit some attention on the part of both historian and reader. We will then enter…
- Manicamp and Malicorne
- Malicorne, then, left Blois, as we have said, and went to find his friend Manicamp, then in temporary retreat in the city of Orleans. It was just at the moment when that young nobleman was employed…
- The Courtyard of the Hotel Grammont
- On Malicorne’s arrival at Orleans, he was informed that the Comte de Guiche had just set out for Paris. Malicorne rested himself for a couple of hours, and then prepared to continue his journey. He…
- The Portrait of Madame
- The discussion was becoming full of bitterness. De Guiche perfectly understood the whole matter for there was in Bragelonne’s face a look instinctively hostile, while in that of De Wardes there was…
- Havre
- This brilliant and animated company, the members of which were inspired by various feelings, arrived at Havre four days after their departure from Paris. It was about five o’clock in the afternoon,…
- At Sea
- The following day was somewhat calmer, although the gale still continued. The sun had, however, risen through a bank of orange clouds, tingeing with its cheerful rays the crests of the black waves.…
- The Tents
- The admiral, as we have seen, was determined to pay no further attention to Buckingham’s threatening glances and fits of passion. In fact, from the moment they quitted England, he had gradually…
- Night
- Concord returned to its place amidst the tents. English and French rivaled each other in their devotion and courteous attention to the illustrious travelers. The English forwarded to the French…
- From Havre to Paris
- The next day the fetes took place, accompanied by all the pomp and animation that the resources of the town and the cheerful disposition of men’s minds could supply. During the last few hours spent…
- An Account of what the Chevalier de Lorraine thought of Madame
- Nothing further interrupted the journey. Under a pretext that was little remarked, M. de Wardes went forward in advance of the others. He took Manicamp with him, for his equable and dreamy…
- A Surprise for Madame de Montalais
- Madame’s marriage was celebrated in the chapel of the Palais-Royal, in the presence of a crowd of courtiers, who had been most scrupulously selected. However, notwithstanding the marked favor which…
- The Consent of Athos
- Raoul quitted the Palais-Royal full of ideas that admitted no delay in execution. He mounted his horse in the courtyard, and followed the road to Blois, while the marriage festivities of Monsieur and…
- Monsieur becomes jealous of the Duke of Buckingham
- While the Comte de la Fere was proceeding on his way to Paris, accompanied by Raoul, the Palais-Royal was the theatre wherein a scene of what Moliere would have called excellent comedy was being…
- Forever!
- The Duke of Buckingham, obedient to the queen-mother’s invitation, presented himself in her apartments half an hour after the departure of the Duc d’Orleans. When his name was announced by the…
- King Louis XIV. does not think Mademoiselle de la Valliere either rich enough or pretty enough for a Gentleman of the Rank of the Vicomte de Bragelonne
- Raoul and the Comte de la Fere reached Paris the evening of the same day on which Buckingham had held the conversation with the queen-mother. The count had scarcely arrived, when, through Raoul, he…
- Sword-thrusts in the Water
- Raoul, on betaking himself to De Guiche, found him conversing with De Wardes and Manicamp. De Wardes, since the affair of the barricade, had treated Raoul as a stranger; they behaved as if they were…
- Sword-thrusts in the Water (concluded)
- D’Artagnan’s apartment was not unoccupied, for the Comte de la Fere, seated in the recess of a window, awaited him. “Well,” said he to D’Artagnan, as he saw him enter.
- Baisemeaux de Montlezun
- After the austere lesson administered to De Wardes, Athos and D’Artagnan together descended the staircase which led to the courtyard of the Palais-Royal. “You perceive,” said Athos to…
- The King’s Card-table
- Fouquet was present, as D’Artagnan had said, at the king’s card-table. It seemed as if Buckingham’s departure had shed a balm on the lacerated hearts of the previous evening. Monsieur, radiant…
- M. Baisemeaux de Montlezun’s Accounts
- The clock of St. Paul was striking seven as Aramis, on horseback, dressed as a simple citizen, that is to say, in colored suit, with no distinctive mark about him, except a kind of hunting-knife by…
- The Breakfast at Monsieur de Baisemeaux’s
- Aramis was generally temperate; but on this occasion, while taking every care of his constitution, he did ample justice to Baisemeaux’s breakfast, which, in all respects, was most excellent. The…
- The Second Floor of la Bertaudiere
- On the second flight of stairs, whether from fatigue or emotion, the breathing of the visitor began to fail him, and he leaned against the wall. “Will you begin with this one?” said Baisemeaux;…
- The Two Friends
- At the very time M. de Baisemeaux was showing Aramis the prisoners in the Bastile, a carriage drew up at Madame de Belliere’s door, and, at that still early hour, a young woman alighted, her head…
- Madame de Belliere’s Plate
- The blow had been the more painful on account of its being unexpected. It was some time before the marquise recovered herself; but once recovered, she began to reflect upon the events so heartlessly…
- The Dowry
- Monsieur Faucheux’s horses were serviceable animals, with thickset knees, and legs that had some difficulty in moving. Like the carriage, they belonged to the earlier part of the century. They were…
- Le Terrain de Dieu
- During the progress of these events Buckingham and De Wardes traveled in excellent companionship, and made the journey from Paris to Calais in undisturbed harmony together. Buckingham had hurried his…
- The Missing Viscount
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There are some chapters missing between “Ten Years Later” and “Louise de la Valliere”. These are the probable chapter titles that belong here.
- Louise de la Valliere
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Volume 3 of Le Vicomte de Bragellone, the Musketeer work which includes The Man in the Iron Mask: Wherein d’Artagnan begins to suspect Aramis of wrongful deeds.
- The Man in the Iron Mask
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Volume 4 of Le Vicomte de Bragellone, also known as The Man in the Iron Mask. Aramis’ plot succeeds or fails.
