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The narrative resumes years after earlier adventures, following D'Artagnan and his old companions as they navigate court intrigues, shifting loyalties, and financial and political schemes surrounding the young monarch and his ministers. Episodes alternate between personal reunions, romances, and daring operations—smuggling, recoveries, and secret missions—while fortunes rise and fall amid gambling, treasure, and legal maneuvering. Plot threads converge on a disputed identity and a dark captivity that reshape loyalties and power plays. Themes include honor and friendship tested by time and ambition, and the collision of private bonds with the demands of statecraft.

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Title: The Vicomte de Bragelonne

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Auguste Maquet

Release date: April 1, 2001 [eBook #2609]
Most recently updated: April 24, 2025

Language: English

Credits: John Bursey and David Widger

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The Vicomte de Bragelonne

By Alexandre Dumas, Père

This Begins the Final Volume of the D’Artagnan Series

CONTENTS

Original Transcriber’s Note:
Chapter I. The Letter.
Chapter II. The Messenger.
Chapter III. The Interview.
Chapter IV. Father and Son.
Chapter V. In which Something will be said of Cropoli.
Chapter VI. The Unknown.
Chapter VII. Parry.
Chapter VIII. What his Majesty King Louis XIV. was at the Age of Twenty-Two.
Chapter IX. In which the Unknown of the Hostelry of Les Medici loses his Incognito.
Chapter X. The Arithmetic of M. de Mazarin.
Chapter XI. Mazarin’s Policy.
Chapter XII. The King and the Lieutenant.
Chapter XIII. Mary de Mancini.
Chapter XIV. In which the King and the Lieutenant each give Proofs of Memory.
Chapter XV. The Proscribed.
Chapter XVI. “Remember!”
Chapter XVII. In which Aramis is sought, and only Bazin is found.
Chapter XVIII. In which D’Artagnan seeks Porthos, and only finds Mousqueton.
Chapter XIX. What D’Artagnan went to Paris for.
Chapter XX. Of the Society which was formed in the Rue des Lombards.
Chapter XXI. In which D’Artagnan prepares to travel.
Chapter XXII. D’Artagnan travels for the House of Planchet and Company.
Chapter XXIII. In which the Author is forced to write a Little History.
Chapter XXIV. The Treasure.
Chapter XXV. The Marsh.
Chapter XXVI. Heart and Mind.
Chapter XXVII. The Next Day.
Chapter XXVIII. Smuggling.
Chapter XXIX. Fear he has placed his Money and that of Planchet in the Sinking Fund.
Chapter XXX. The Shares of Planchet and Company rise again to Par.
Chapter XXXI. Monk reveals Himself.
Chapter XXXII. Athos and D’Artagnan meet once more at the Hostelry of the Corne du Cerf.
Chapter XXXIII. The Audience.
Chapter XXXIV. Of the Embarrassment of Riches.
Chapter XXXV. On the Canal.
Chapter XXXVI. How D’Artagnan drew a Country-Seat from a Deal Box.
Chapter XXXVII. How D’Artagnan regulated the “Assets” of the Company.
Chapter XXXVIII. the French Grocer had already been established in the Seventeenth Century.
Chapter XXXIX. Mazarin’s Gaming Party.
Chapter XL: An Affair of State.
Chapter XLI. The Recital.
Chapter XLII. In which Mazarin becomes Prodigal.
Chapter XLIII. Guenaud.
Chapter XLIV. Colbert.
Chapter XLV. Confession of a Man of Wealth.
Chapter XLVI. The Donation.
Chapter XLVII. How Anne of Austria gave one Piece of Advice to Louis XIV.
Chapter XLVIII. Agony.
Chapter XLIX. The First Appearance of Colbert.
Chapter L: The First Day of the Royalty of Louis XIV.
Chapter LI. A Passion.
Chapter LII. D’Artagnan’s Lesson.
Chapter LIII. The King.
Chapter LIV. The Houses of M. Fouquet.
Chapter LV. The Abbe Fouquet.
Chapter LVI. M. de la Fontaine’s Wine.
Chapter LVII. The Gallery of Saint-Mande.
Chapter LVIII. Epicureans.
Chapter LIX. A Quarter of an Hour’s Delay.
Chapter LX. Plan of Battle.
Chapter LXI. The Cabaret of the Image-de-Notre-Dame.
Chapter LXII. Vive Colbert!
Chapter LXIII. How M. d’Eymeris’s Diamond passed into the Hands of M. d’Artagnan.
Chapter LXIV. Difference D’Artagnan finds between the Intendant and the Superintendent.
Chapter LXV. Philosophy of the Heart and Mind.
Chapter LXVI. The Journey.
Chapter LXVII. How D’Artagnan became Acquainted with a Poet.
Chapter LXVIII. D’Artagnan continues his Investigations.
Chapter LXIX. D’Artagnan was to meet an Old Acquaintance.
Chapter LXX. Wherein the Ideas of D’Artagnan begin to clear up a little.
Chapter LXXI. A Procession at Vannes.
Chapter LXXII. The Grandeur of the Bishop of Vannes.
Chapter LXXIII. In which Porthos begins to be sorry for having come with D’Artagnan.
Chapter LXXIV. D’Artagnan makes all Speed, Porthos snores, and Aramis counsels.
Chapter LXXV. In which Monsieur Fouquet Acts.