The Man in the Iron Mask

 

By

 

Alexandre Dumas père

 

Ref: Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org.

 


CONTENTS:

 

Chapter I: The Prisoner. 4

Chapter II: How Mouston Had Become Fatter without Giving Porthos Notice Thereof, and of the Troubles Which Consequently Befell that Worthy Gentleman. 29

Chapter III: Who Messire Jean Percerin Was. 37

Chapter IV: The Patterns. 43

Chapter V: Where, Probably, Moliere Obtained His First Idea of the Bourgeois Gentilhomme. 52

Chapter VI: The Bee-Hive, the Bees, and the Honey. 59

Chapter VII: Another Supper at the Bastile. 70

Chapter VIII: The General of the Order. 77

Chapter IX: The Tempter. 86

Chapter X: Crown and Tiara. 93

Chapter XI: The Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte. 100

Chapter XII: The Wine of Melun. 104

Chapter XIII: Nectar and Ambrosia. 109

Chapter XIV: A Gascon, and a Gascon and a Half. 112

Chapter XV: Colbert. 125

Chapter XVI: Jealousy. 130

Chapter XVII: High Treason. 136

Chapter XVIII: A Night at the Bastile. 144

Chapter XIX: The Shadow of M. Fouquet. 149

Chapter XX: The Morning. 163

Chapter XXI: The King's Friend. 171

Chapter XXII: Showing How the Countersign Was Respected at the Bastile. 188

Chapter XXIII: The King's Gratitude. 196

Chapter XXIV: The False King. 204

Chapter XXV: In Which Porthos Thinks He Is Pursuing a Duchy. 212

Chapter XXVI: The Last Adieux. 216

Chapter XXVII: Monsieur de Beaufort. 221

Chapter XXVIII: Preparations for Departure. 228

Chapter XXIX: Planchet's Inventory. 236

Chapter XXX: The Inventory of M. de Beaufort. 241

Chapter XXXI: The Silver Dish. 246

Chapter XXXII: Captive and Jailers. 253

Chapter XXXIII: Promises. 262

Chapter XXXIV: Among Women. 271

Chapter XXXV: The Last Supper. 278

Chapter XXXVI: In M. Colbert's Carriage. 285

Chapter XXXVII: The Two Lighters. 293

Chapter XXXVIII: Friendly Advice. 299

Chapter XXXIX: How the King, Louis XIV., Played His Little Part. 305

Chapter XL: The White Horse and the Black. 314

Chapter XLI: In Which the Squirrel Falls, - the Adder Flies. 320

Chapter XLII: Belle-Ile-en-Mer. 328

Chapter XLIII: Explanations by Aramis. 338

Chapter XLIV: Result of the Ideas of the King, and the Ideas of D'Artagnan. 348

Chapter XLV: The Ancestors of Porthos. 350

Chapter XLVI: The Son of Biscarrat. 354

Chapter XLVII: The Grotto of Locmaria. 360

Chapter XLVIII: The Grotto. 366