The
Vicomte de Bragelonne
By
Alexandre Dumas père
CONTENTS:
Introduction: 5
Chapter
I: The Letter. 7
Chapter
II: The Messenger. 14
Chapter
III: The Interview. 22
Chapter
IV: Father and Son. 30
Chapter
V: In which Something will be said of Cropoli - of Cropoli and of a Great
Unknown Painter. 35
Chapter
VI: The Unknown. 40
Chapter
VII: Parry. 46
Chapter
VIII: What his Majesty King Louis XIV. was at the Age of Twenty-Two. 52
Chapter
IX: In which the Unknown of the Hostelry of Les Medici loses his Incognito. 61
Chapter
X: The Arithmetic of M. de Mazarin. 71
Chapter
XI: Mazarin's Policy. 79
Chapter
XII: The King and the Lieutenant. 86
Chapter
XIII: Mary de Mancini. 91
Chapter
XIV: In which the King and the Lieutenant each give Proofs of Memory. 96
Chapter
XV: The Proscribed. 104
Chapter
XVI: "Remember!" 109
Chapter
XVII: In which Aramis is sought, and only Bazin is found. 118
Chapter
XVIII: In which D'Artagnan seeks Porthos, and only finds Mousqueton. 127
Chapter
XIX: What D'Artagnan went to Paris for. 135
Chapter
XX: 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. 140
Chapter
XXI: In which D'Artagnan prepares to travel for the Firm of Planchet &
Company. 151
Chapter
XXII: D'Artagnan travels for the House of Planchet and Company. 156
Chapter
XXIII: In which the Author, very unwillingly, is forced to write a Little
History. 161
Chapter
XXIV: The Treasure. 172
Chapter
XXV: The Marsh. 179
Chapter
XXVI: Heart and Mind. 187
Chapter
XXVII: The Next Day. 195
Chapter
XXVIII: Smuggling. 201
Chapter
XXIX: In which D'Artagnan begins to fear he has placed his Money and that of Planchet
in the Sinking Fund. 208
Chapter
XXX: The Shares of Planchet and Company rise again to Par. 215
Chapter
XXXI: Monk reveals Himself. 221
Chapter
XXXII: Athos and D'Artagnan meet once more at the Hostelry of the Corne du
Cerf. 224
Chapter
XXXIII: The Audience. 235
Chapter
XXXIV: Of the Embarrassment of Riches. 241
Chapter
XXXV: On the Canal. 247
Chapter
XXXVI: How D'Artagnan drew, as a Fairy would have done, a Country-Seat from a
Deal Box. 254
Chapter
XXXVII: How D'Artagnan regulated the "Assets" of the Company before
he established its "Liabilities." 262
Chapter
XXXVIII: In which it is seen that the French Grocer had already been
established in the Seventeenth Century. 267
Chapter
XXXIX: Mazarin's Gaming Party. 273
Chapter
XL: An Affair of State. 277
Chapter
XLI: The Recital. 282
Chapter
XLII: In which Mazarin becomes Prodigal. 287
Chapter
XLIII: Guénaud. 291
Chapter
XLIV: Colbert. 295
Chapter
XLV: Confession of a Man of Wealth. 299
Chapter
XLVI: The Donation. 306
Chapter
XLVII: How Anne of Austria gave one Piece of Advice to Louis XIV., and how M.
Fouquet gave him Another. 311
Chapter
XLVIII: Agony. 318
Chapter
XLIX: The First Appearance of Colbert. 326
Chapter
L: The First Day of the Royalty of Louis XIV. 335
Chapter
LI: A Passion. 340
Chapter
LII: D'Artagnan's Lesson. 347
Chapter
LIII: The King. 355
Chapter
LIV: The Houses of M. Fouquet. 374
Chapter
LV: The Abbé Fouquet. 385
Chapter
LVI: M. de la Fontaine's Wine. 392
Chapter
LVII: The Gallery of Saint-Mandé. 396
Chapter
LVIII: Epicureans. 400
Chapter
LIX: A Quarter of an Hour's Delay. 405
Chapter
LX: Plan of Battle. 411
Chapter
LXI: The Cabaret of the Image-de-Notre-Dame. 416
Chapter
LXII: Vive Colbert! 422
Chapter
LXIII: How M. d'Eymeris's Diamond passed into the Hands of M. d'Artagnan. 427
Chapter
LXIV: Of the Notable Difference D'Artagnan finds between Monsieur the Intendant
and Monsieur the Superintendent. 435
Chapter
LXV: Philosophy of the Heart and Mind. 442
Chapter
LXVI: The Journey. 445
Chapter
LXVII: How D'Artagnan became Acquainted with a Poet, who had turned Printer for
the Sake of Printing his own Verses. 449
Chapter
LXVIII: D'Artagnan continues his Investigations. 457
Chapter
LXIX: In which the Reader, no Doubt, will be as astonished as D'Artagnan was to
meet an Old Acquaintance. 465
Chapter
LXX: Wherein the Ideas of D'Artagnan, at first strangely clouded, begin to
clear up a little. 471
Chapter
LXXI: A Procession at Vannes. 480
Chapter
LXXII: The Grandeur of the Bishop of Vannes. 486
Chapter
LXXIII: In which Porthos begins to be sorry for having come with D'Artagnan. 496
Chapter
LXXIV: In which D'Artagnan makes all Speed, Porthos snores, and Aramis
counsels. 508
Chapter
LXXV: In which Monsieur Fouquet Acts. 515
Footnotes. 525
In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le
Siècle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated
playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he
had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a
history he planned to write on Louis XIV. They chronicled the adventures of a
young