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The narrative follows D'Artagnan and his longtime companions as they navigate court intrigues, jealousies, and romantic entanglements during the early reign of a young king. Episodes alternate between sea voyages, camp life, and Fontainebleau entertainments, mixing duels, covert correspondence, and social maneuvering. Personal honor and political ambition collide as loyalties shift and secret plots emerge, producing growing peril and unresolved mysteries that set up the saga's subsequent developments.

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Title: Ten Years Later

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Release date: June 1, 2001 [eBook #2681]
Most recently updated: April 24, 2025

Language: English

Credits: John Bursey and David Widger

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TEN YEARS LATER ***

Ten Years Later

(1660–1661, Chapters 76–140 of the Third Volume of the D’Artagnan series)

by Alexandre Dumas

THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITOR’S NOTE TO THE PG D’ARTAGNAN SERIES

LINKED INDEX OF PROJECT GUTENBERG VOLUMES:

ORDERTITLEPG EBOOK# DATESVOLUMECHAPTERS
1The Three Musketeers12571625–16281
2Twenty Years After12591648–1649 2
3The Vicomte de Bragelonne2609166031–75
4Ten Years Later26811660–1661376–140
5Louise de la Vallière271016613141–208
6The Man in the Iron Mask27591661–16733209–269

[Project Gutenberg eBook 1258 listed below, is of the same title as eBook 2681 and its contents overlap those of two other volumes: it includes all the chapters of eBook 2609 and the first 28 chapters of 2681]

TITLEPG EBOOK#DATESVOLUMECHAPTERS
Ten Years Later12581660–166131–104

Contents

Transcriber’s Notes
Introduction
Chapter I. In which D’Artagnan finishes by at Length placing his Hand upon his Captain’s Commission.
Chapter II. A Lover and His Mistress.
Chapter III. In Which We at Length See the True Heroine of this History
Chapter IV. Malicorne and Manicamp.
Chapter V: Manicamp and Malicorne.
Chapter VI. The Courtyard of the Hotel Grammont.
Chapter VII. The Portrait of Madame.
Chapter VIII. Le Havre.
Chapter IX. At Sea.
Chapter X. The Tents.
Chapter XI. Night.
Chapter XII. From Le Havre to Paris.
Chapter XIII. An Account of what the Chevalier de Lorraine Thought of Madame.
Chapter XIV. A Surprise for Raoul.
Chapter XV. The Consent of Athos.
Chapter XVI. Monsieur Becomes Jealous of the Duke of Buckingham.
Chapter XVII. Forever!
Chapter XVIII. King Louis XIV. does not think Mademoiselle de la Vallière rich enough
Chapter XIX. Sword-Thrusts in the Water.
Chapter XX. Sword-Thrusts in the Water (concluded).
Chapter XXI. Baisemeaux de Montlezun.
Chapter XXII. The King’s Card-Table.
Chapter XXIII. M. Baisemeaux de Montlezun’s Accounts.
Chapter XXIV. The Breakfast at Monsieur de Baisemeaux’s.
Chapter XXV. The Second Floor of la Bertaudiere.
Chapter XXVI. The Two Friends.
Chapter XXVII. Madame de Belliere’s Plate.
Chapter XXVIII. The Dowry.
Chapter XXIX. Le Terrain de Dieu.
Chapter XXX. Threefold Love.
Chapter XXXI. M. de Lorraine’s Jealousy.
Chapter XXXII. Monsieur is Jealous of Guiche.
Chapter XXXIII. The Mediator.
Chapter XXXIV. The Advisers.
Chapter XXXV. Fontainebleau.
Chapter XXXVI. The Bath.
Chapter XXXVII. The Butterfly-Chase.
Chapter XXXVIII. What Was Caught after the Butterflies.
Chapter XXXIX. The Ballet of the Seasons.
Chapter XL: The Nymphs of the Park of Fontainebleau.
Chapter XLI. What Was Said under the Royal Oak.
Chapter XLII. The King’s Uneasiness.
Chapter XLIII. The King’s Secret.
Chapter XLIV. Courses de Nuit.
Chapter XLV. In Which Madame Acquires a Proof that Listeners Hear What Is Said.
Chapter XLVI. Aramis’s Correspondence.
Chapter XLVII. The Orderly Clerk.
Chapter XLVIII. Fontainebleau at Two o’Clock in the Morning.
Chapter XLIX. The Labyrinth.
Chapter L: How Malicorne Had Been Turned Out of the Hotel of the Beau Paon.
Chapter LI. What Actually Occurred at the Inn Called the Beau Paon.
Chapter LII. A Jesuit of the Eleventh Year.
Chapter LIII. The State Secret.
Chapter LIV. A Mission.
Chapter LV. Happy as a Prince.
Chapter LVI. Story of a Dryad and a Naiad.
Chapter LVII. Conclusion of the Story of a Naiad and of a Dryad.
Chapter LVIII. Royal Psychology.
Chapter LIX. Something That neither Naiad nor Dryad Foresaw.
Chapter LX. The New General of the Jesuits.
Chapter LXI. The Storm.
Chapter LXII. The Shower of Rain.
Chapter LXIII. Toby.
Chapter LXIV. Madame’s Four Chances.
Chapter LXV. The Lottery.
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