THE THREE MUSKETEERS
By Alexandre Dumas, Pere
First Volume of the d'Artagnan Series
CONTENTS
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
3 THE AUDIENCE
4 THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS
5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS
6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS
8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
9 D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF
10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX
14 THE MAN OF MEUNG
15 MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD
16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
17 BONACIEUX AT HOME
18 LOVER AND HUSBAND
19 PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
20 THE JOURNEY
21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER
22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON
23 THE RENDEZVOUS
24 THE PAVILION
25 PORTHOS
26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS
28 THE RETURN
29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN
31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH
32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
34 IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF
35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID
36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE
37 MILADY'S SECRET
38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT
39 A VISION
40 A TERRIBLE VISION
41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
42 THE ANJOU WINE
43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT
44 THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES
45 A CONJUGAL SCENE
46 THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS
47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
48 A FAMILY AFFAIR
49 FATALITY
50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER
51 OFFICER
52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY
53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY
54 CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY
55 CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY
56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
57 MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY
58 ESCAPE
59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628
60 IN FRANCE
61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE
62 TWO VARIETIES OF DEMONS
63 THE DROP OF WATER
64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK
65 TRIAL
66 EXECUTION
67 CONCLUSION
EPILOGUE
TEN YEARS LATER
by Alexandre Dumas
Contents
THE VICOMTE DE BRAGELONNE.
Volume I.
CHAPTER 1. The Letter.
CHAPTER 2. The Messenger.
CHAPTER 3. The Interview.
CHAPTER 4. Father and Son.
CHAPTER 5. In which Something will be said of Cropoli—of Cropoli and of a Great Unknown Painter.
CHAPTER 6. The Unknown.
CHAPTER 7. Parry.
CHAPTER 8. What his Majesty King Louis XIV. was at the Age of Twenty-Two
CHAPTER 9. In which the Unknown of the Hostelry of Les Medici loses his Incognito.
CHAPTER 10. The Arithmetic of M. de Mazarin
CHAPTER 11. Mazarin's Policy
CHAPTER 12. The King and the Lieutenant
CHAPTER 13. Mary de Mancini
CHAPTER 14. In which the King and the Lieutenant each give Proofs of Memory
CHAPTER 15. The Proscribed
CHAPTER 16. "Remember!"
CHAPTER 17. In which Aramis is sought and only Bazin is found
CHAPTER 18. In which D'Artagnan seeks Porthos, and only finds Mousqueton
CHAPTER 19. What D'Artagnan went to Paris for
CHAPTER 20. Of the Society which was formed in the Rue des Lombards, at the Sign of the Pilon d'Or
CHAPTER 21. In which D'Artagnan prepares to travel for the Firm of Planchet and Company
CHAPTER 22. D'Artagnan travels for the House of Planchet and Company
CHAPTER 23. In which the Author, very unwillingly, is forced to write a Little History
CHAPTER 24. The Treasure
CHAPTER 25. The March
CHAPTER 26. Heart and Mind
CHAPTER 27. The Next Day
CHAPTER 28. Smuggling
CHAPTER 29. In which D'Artagnan begins to fear he has placed his Money and that of Planchet in the Sinking Fund
CHAPTER 30. The Shares of Planchet and Company rise again to Par
CHAPTER 31. Monk reveals himself
CHAPTER 32. Athos and D'Artagnan meet once more at the Hostelry of the Corne du Cerf
CHAPTER 33. The Audience.
CHAPTER 34. Of the Embarrassment of Riches
CHAPTER 35. On the Canal
CHAPTER 36. How D'Artagnan drew, as a Fairy would have done, a Country-seat from a Deal Box
CHAPTER 37. How D'Artagnan regulated the "Assets" of the Company before he established its "Liabilities"
CHAPTER 38. In which it is seen that the French Grocer had already been established in the Seventeenth Century
CHAPTER 39. Mazarin's Gaming Party
CHAPTER 40. An Affair of State
CHAPTER 41. The Recital
CHAPTER 42. In which Mazarin becomes Prodigal
CHAPTER 43. Guenaud
CHAPTER 44. Colbert
CHAPTER 45. Confession of a Man of Wealth
CHAPTER 46. The Donation
CHAPTER 47. How Anne of Austria gave one Piece of Advice to Louis XIV., and how M. Fouquet gave him another.
CHAPTER 48. Agony
CHAPTER 49. The First Appearance of Colbert
CHAPTER 50. The First Day of the Royalty of Louis XIV
CHAPTER 51. A Passion
CHAPTER 52. D'Artagnan's Lesson
CHAPTER 53. The King
CHAPTER 54. The Houses of M. Fouquet
CHAPTER 55. The Abbe Fouquet
CHAPTER 56. M. de la Fontaine's Wine
CHAPTER 57. The Gallery of Saint-Mande
CHAPTER 58. Epicureans
CHAPTER 59. A Quarter of an Hour's Delay
CHAPTER 60. Plan of Battle
CHAPTER 61. The Cabaret of the Image-de-Notre-Dame
CHAPTER 62. Vive Colbert!
CHAPTER 63. How M. d'Eymeris's Diamond passed into the Hands of M. D'Artagnan.
CHAPTER 64. Of the Notable Difference D'Artagnan finds between Monsieur the Intendant and Monsieur the Superintendent
CHAPTER 65. Philosophy of the Heart and Mind
CHAPTER 66. The Journey
CHAPTER 67. How D'Artagnan became acquainted with a Poet, who had turned Printer for the sake of printing his own Verses
CHAPTER 68. D'Artagnan continues his Investigations
CHAPTER 69. In which the Reader, no doubt, will be as astonished as D'Artagnan was to meet an Old Acquaintance
CHAPTER 70. Wherein the Ideas of D'Artagnan, at first strangely clouded, begin to clear up a little.
CHAPTER 71. A Procession at Vannes
CHAPTER 72. The Grandeur of the Bishop of Vannes
CHAPTER 73. In which Porthos begins to be sorry for having come with D'Artagnan
CHAPTER 74. In which D'Artagnan makes all Speed, Porthos snores, and Aramis counsels
CHAPTER 75. In which Monsieur Fouquet acts
CHAPTER 76. In which D'Artagnan finishes by at length placing his Hand upon his Captain's Commission
CHAPTER 77. A Lover and his Mistress
CHAPTER 78. In which we at length see the true Heroine of this History appear
CHAPTER 79. Malicorne and Manicamp
CHAPTER 80. Manicamp and Malicorne
CHAPTER 81. The Courtyard of the Hotel Grammont
CHAPTER 82. The Portrait of Madame
CHAPTER 83. Havre
CHAPTER 84. At Sea
CHAPTER 85. The Tents
CHAPTER 86. Night
CHAPTER 87. From Havre to Paris
CHAPTER 88. An Account of what the Chevalier de Lorraine thought of Madame
CHAPTER 89. A Surprise for Madame de Montalais
CHAPTER 90. The Consent of Athos
CHAPTER 91. Monsieur becomes jealous of the Duke of Buckingham
CHAPTER 92. Forever!
CHAPTER 93. King Louis XIV. does not think Mademoiselle de la Valliere either rich enough or pretty enough
CHAPTER 94. Sword-thrusts in the Water
CHAPTER 95. Sword-thrusts in the Water (concluded)
CHAPTER 96. Baisemeaux de Montlezun
CHAPTER 97. The King's Card-table
CHAPTER 98. M. Baisemeaux de Montlezun's Accounts
CHAPTER 99. The Breakfast at Monsieur de Baisemeaux's
CHAPTER 100. The Second Floor of la Bertaudiere
CHAPTER 101. The Two Friends
CHAPTER 102. Madame de Belliere's Plate
CHAPTER 103. The Dowry
CHAPTER 104. Le Terrain de Dieu
TWENTY YEARS AFTER
By Alexandre Dumas, Pere
Second Volume of the d'Artagnan Series
1910
CONTENTS
1. The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu.
2. A Nightly Patrol.
3. Dead Animosities.
4. Anne of Austria at the Age of Forty-six.
5. The Gascon and the Italian.
6. D'Artagnan in his Fortieth Year.
7. Touches upon the Strange Effects a Half-pistole may have.
8. D'Artagnan, Going to a Distance to discover Aramis.
9. The Abbe D'Herblay.
10. Monsieur Porthos du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds.
11. Wealth does not necessarily produce Happiness.
12. Porthos was Discontented with his Condition.
13. Two Angelic Faces.
14. The Castle of Bragelonne.
15. Athos as a Diplomatist.
16. The Duc de Beaufort.
17. Duc de Beaufort amused his Leisure Hours in the Donjon of Vincennes.
18. Grimaud begins his Functions.
19. Pates made by the Successor of Father Marteau are described.
20. One of Marie Michon's Adventures.
21. The Abbe Scarron.
22. Saint Denis.
23. One of the Forty Methods of Escape of the Duc de Beaufort.
24. The timely Arrival of D'Artagnan in Paris.
25. An Adventure on the High Road.
26. The Rencontre.
27. The four old Friends prepare to meet again.
28. The Place Royale.
29. The Ferry across the Oise.
30. Skirmishing.
31. The Monk.
32. The Absolution.
33. Grimaud Speaks.
34. On the Eve of Battle.
35. A Dinner in the Old Style.
36. A Letter from Charles the First.
37. Cromwell's Letter.
38. Henrietta Maria and Mazarin.
39. How, sometimes, the Unhappy mistake Chance for Providence.
40. Uncle and Nephew.
41. Paternal Affection.
42. Another Queen in Want of Help.
43. In which it is proved that first Impulses are oftentimes the best.
44. Te Deum for the Victory of Lens.
45. The Beggar of St. Eustache.
46. The Tower of St. Jacques de la Boucherie.
47. The Riot.
48. The Riot becomes a Revolution.
49. Misfortune refreshes the Memory.
50. The Interview.
51. The Flight.
52. The Carriage of Monsieur le Coadjuteur.
53. How D'Artagnan and Porthos earned by selling Straw.
54. In which we hear Tidings of Aramis.
55. The Scotchman.
56. The Avenger.
57. Oliver Cromwell.
58. Jesus Seigneur.
59. Noble Natures never lose Courage, nor good Stomachs their Appetites.
60. Respect to Fallen Majesty.
61. D'Artagnan hits on a Plan.
62. London.
63. The Trial.
64. Whitehall.
65. The Workmen.
66. Remember!
67. The Man in the Mask.
68. Cromwell's House.
69. Conversational.
70. The Skiff "Lightning."
71. Port Wine.
72. End of the Port Wine Mystery.
73. Fatality.
74. How Mousqueton had a Narrow Escape of being eaten.
75. The Return.
76. The Ambassadors.
77. The three Lieutenants of the Generalissimo.
78. The Battle of Charenton.
79. The Road to Picardy.
80. The Gratitude of Anne of Austria.
81. Cardinal Mazarin as King.
82. Precautions.
83. Strength and Sagacity.
84. Strength and Sagacity--Continued.
85. The Oubliettes of Cardinal Mazarin.
86. Conferences.
87. Thinking that Porthos will be at last a Baron, and D'Artagnan a Captain.
88. Shows how with Threat and Pen more is effected than by the Sword.
89. Difficult for Kings to return to the Capitals of their Kingdoms.
90. Conclusion.
THE VICOMTE DE BRAGELONNE
By Alexandre Dumas, Pere
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.
TEN YEARS LATER
(1660-1661, Chapters 76-140 of the Third Volume of the D’Artagnan series)
by Alexandre Dumas
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3 The Vicomte de Bragelonne 2609 1660 3 1-75
4 Ten Years Later 2681 1660-1661 3 76-140
5 Louise de la Valliere 2710 1661 3 141-208
6 The Man in the Iron Mask 2759 1661-1673 3 209-269
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Ten Years Later 1258 1660-1661 3 1-104
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 Valliere 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.
Footnotes
LOUISE DE LA VALLIERE
by Alexandre Dumas [Pere]
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2 Twenty Years After 1259 1648-1649 2
3 The Vicomte de Bragelonne 2609 1660 3 1-75
4 Ten Years Later 2681 1660-1661 3 76-140
5 Louise de la Valliere 2710 1661 3 141-208
6 The Man in the Iron Mask 2759 1661-1673 3 209-269
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Contents
Introduction
Chapter I. Malaga.
Chapter II. A Letter from M. Baisemeaux.
Chapter III. In Which the Reader will be Delighted to Find that Porthos Has Lost Nothing of His Muscularity.
Chapter IV. The Rat and the Cheese.
Chapter V. Planchet’s Country-House.
Chapter VI. Showing What Could Be Seen from Planchet’s House.
Chapter VII. How Porthos, Truchen, and Planchet Parted with Each Other on Friendly Terms, Thanks to D’Artagnan.
Chapter VIII. The Presentation of Porthos at Court.
Chapter IX. Explanations.
Chapter X. Madame and De Guiche.
Chapter XI. Montalais and Malicorne.
Chapter XII. How De Wardes Was Received at Court.
Chapter XIII. The Combat.
Chapter XIV. The King’s Supper.
Chapter XV. After Supper.
Chapter XVI. Showing in What Way D’Artagnan Discharged the Mission with Which the King Had Intrusted Him.
Chapter XVII. The Encounter.
Chapter XVIII. The Physician.
Chapter XIX. Wherein D’Artagnan Perceives that It Was He Who Was Mistaken, and Manicamp Who Was Right.
Chapter XX. Showing the Advantage of Having Two Strings to One’s Bow.
Chapter XXI. M. Malicorne the Keeper of the Records of France.
Chapter XXII. The Journey.
Chapter XXIII. Triumfeminate.
Chapter XXIV. The First Quarrel.
Chapter XXV. Despair.
Chapter XXVI. The Flight.
Chapter XXVII. Showing How Louis, on His Part, Had Passed the Time from Ten to Half-Past Twelve at Night.
Chapter XXVIII. The Ambassadors.
Chapter XXIX. Chaillot.
Chapter XXX. Madame.
Chapter XXXI. Mademoiselle de la Valliere’s Pocket-Handkerchief.
Chapter XXXII. Which Treats of Gardeners, of Ladders, and Maids of Honor.
Chapter XXXIII. Which Treats of Carpentry Operations, and Furnishes Details upon the Mode of Constructing Staircases.
Chapter XXXIV. The Promenade by Torchlight.
Chapter XXXV. The Apparition.
Chapter XXXVI. The Portrait.
Chapter XXXVII. Hampton Court.
Chapter XXXVIII. The Courier from Madame.
Chapter XXXIX. Saint-Aignan Follows Malicorne’s Advice.
Chapter XL: Two Old Friends.
Chapter XLI. Wherein May Be Seen that a Bargain Which Cannot Be Made with One Person, Can Be Carried Out with Another.
Chapter XLII. The Skin of the Bear.
Chapter XLIII. An Interview with the Queen-Mother.
Chapter XLIV. Two Friends.
Chapter XLV. How Jean de La Fontaine Came to Write His First Tale.
Chapter XLVI. La Fontaine in the Character of a Negotiator.
Chapter XLVII. Madame de Belliere’s Plate and Diamonds.
Chapter XLVIII. M. de Mazarin’s Receipt.
Chapter XLIX. Monsieur Colbert’s Rough Draft.
Chapter L: In Which the Author Thinks It Is High Time to Return to the Vicomte de Bragelonne.
Chapter LI. Bragelonne Continues His Inquiries.
Chapter LII. Two Jealousies.
Chapter LIII. A Domiciliary Visit.
Chapter LIV. Porthos’s Plan of Action.
Chapter LV. The Change of Residence, the Trap-Door, and the Portrait.
Chapter LVI. Rivals in Politics.
Chapter LVII. Rivals in Love.
Chapter LVIII. King and Noble.
Chapter LIX. After the Storm.
Chapter LX. Heu! Miser!
Chapter LXI. Wounds within Wounds.
Chapter LXII. What Raoul Had Guessed.
Chapter LXIII. Three Guests Astonished to Find Themselves at Supper Together.
Chapter LXIV. What Took Place at the Louvre During the Supper at the Bastile.
Chapter LXV. Political Rivals.
Chapter LXVI. In Which Porthos Is Convinced without Having Understood Anything.
Chapter LXVII. M. de Baisemeaux’s “Society.”
Footnotes:
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK
by Alexandre Dumas
Contents
Transcriber’s Notes:
Introduction:
Chapter I. The Prisoner.
Chapter II. How Mouston Had Become Fatter without Giving Porthos Notice Thereof
Chapter III. Who Messire Jean Percerin Was.
Chapter IV. The Patterns.
Chapter V. Where, Probably, Moliere Obtained His First Idea of the Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
Chapter VI. The Bee-Hive, the Bees, and the Honey.
Chapter VII. Another Supper at the Bastile.
Chapter VIII. The General of the Order.
Chapter IX. The Tempter.
Chapter X. Crown and Tiara.
Chapter XI. The Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte.
Chapter XII. The Wine of Melun.
Chapter XIII. Nectar and Ambrosia.
Chapter XIV. A Gascon, and a Gascon and a Half.
Chapter XV. Colbert.
Chapter XVI. Jealousy.
Chapter XVII. High Treason.
Chapter XVIII. A Night at the Bastile.
Chapter XIX. The Shadow of M. Fouquet.
Chapter XX. The Morning.
Chapter XXI. The King’s Friend.
Chapter XXII. Showing How the Countersign Was Respected at the Bastile.
Chapter XXIII. The King’s Gratitude.
Chapter XXIV. The False King.
Chapter XXV. In Which Porthos Thinks He Is Pursuing a Duchy.
Chapter XXVI. The Last Adieux.
Chapter XXVII. Monsieur de Beaufort.
Chapter XXVIII. Preparations for Departure.
Chapter XXIX. Planchet’s Inventory.
Chapter XXX. The Inventory of M. de Beaufort.
Chapter XXXI. The Silver Dish.
Chapter XXXII. Captive and Jailers.
Chapter XXXIII. Promises.
Chapter XXXIV. Among Women.
Chapter XXXV. The Last Supper.
Chapter XXXVI. In M. Colbert’s Carriage.
Chapter XXXVII. The Two Lighters.
Chapter XXXVIII. Friendly Advice.
Chapter XXXIX. How the King, Louis XIV., Played His Little Part.
Chapter XL: The White Horse and the Black.
Chapter XLI. In Which the Squirrel Falls,—the Adder Flies.
Chapter XLII. Belle-Ile-en-Mer.
Chapter XLIII. Explanations by Aramis.
Chapter XLIV. Result of the Ideas of the King, and the Ideas of D’Artagnan.
Chapter XLV. The Ancestors of Porthos.
Chapter XLVI. The Son of Biscarrat.
Chapter XLVII. The Grotto of Locmaria.
Chapter XLVIII. The Grotto.
Chapter XLIX. An Homeric Song.
Chapter L: The Death of a Titan.
Chapter LI. Porthos’s Epitaph.
Chapter LII. M. de Gesvres’s Round.
Chapter LIII. King Louis XIV.
Chapter LIV. M. Fouquet’s Friends.
Chapter LV. Porthos’s Will.
Chapter LVI. The Old Age of Athos.
Chapter LVII. Athos’s Vision.
Chapter LVIII. The Angel of Death.
Chapter LIX. The Bulletin.
Chapter LX. The Last Canto of the Poem.
Epilogue.
Footnotes
CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE
By Alexandre Dumas, Pere
1910
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
NOTE:
INTRODUCTION
THE BORGIAS
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
EPILOGUE
THE CENCIâ?"1598
MASSACRES OF THE SOUTHâ?"1551-1815
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
MARY STUARTâ?"1587
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
KARL-LUDWIG SANDâ?"1819
URBAIN GRANDIERâ?"1634
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
NISIDAâ?"1825
DERUES
LA CONSTANTINâ?"1660
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
JOAN OF NAPLESâ?"1343-1382
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK [An Essay]
MARTIN GUERRE
ALI PACHA
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
THE COUNTESS DE SAINT-GERANâ?"1639
MURATâ?"1815
Iâ?"TOULON
IIâ?"CORSICA
IIIâ?"PIZZO
THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS
VANINKA
THE MARQUISE DE GANGESâ?"1657
THE COMPANIONS OF JEHU
By Alexandre Dumas, père
CONTENTS
AN INTRODUCTORY WORD TO THE READER
PROLOGUE. THE CITY OF AVIGNON
CHAPTER I. A TABLE D’HÔTE
CHAPTER II. AN ITALIAN PROVERB
CHAPTER III. THE ENGLISHMAN
CHAPTER IV. THE DUEL
CHAPTER V. ROLAND
CHAPTER VI. MORGAN
CHAPTER VII. THE CHARTREUSE OF SEILLON
CHAPTER VIII. HOW THE MONEY OF THE DIRECTORY WAS USED
CHAPTER IX. ROMEO AND JULIET
CHAPTER X. THE FAMILY OF ROLAND
CHAPTER XI. CHÂTEAU DES NOIRES-FONTAINES
CHAPTER XII. PROVINCIAL PLEASURES
CHAPTER XIII. THE WILD-BOAR
CHAPTER XIV. AN UNPLEASANT COMMISSION
CHAPTER XV. THE STRONG-MINDED MAN
CHAPTER XVI. THE GHOST
CHAPTER XVII. INVESTIGATIONS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE TRIAL
CHAPTER XIX. THE LITTLE HOUSE IN THE RUE DE LA VICTOIRE
CHAPTER XX. THE GUESTS OF GENERAL BONAPARTE
CHAPTER XXI. THE SCHEDULE OF THE DIRECTORY
CHAPTER XXII. THE OUTLINE OF A DECREE
CHAPTER XXIII. ALEA JACTA EST
CHAPTER XXIV. THE EIGHTEENTH BRUMAIRE
CHAPTER XXV. AN IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER XXVI. THE BALL OF THE VICTIMS
CHAPTER XXVII. THE BEAR’S SKIN
CHAPTER XXVIII. FAMILY MATTERS
CHAPTER XXIX. THE GENEVA DILIGENCE
CHAPTER XXX. CITIZEN FOUCHÉ’S REPORT
CHAPTER XXXI. THE SON OF THE MILLER OF LEGUERNO
CHAPTER XXXII. WHITE AND BLUE
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE LAW OF RETALIATION
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE DIPLOMACY OF GEORGES CADOUDAL
CHAPTER XXXV. A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XXXVI. SCULPTURE AND PAINTING
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE AMBASSADOR
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE TWO SIGNALS
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE GROTTO OF CEYZERIAT
CHAPTER XL. A FALSE SCENT
CHAPTER XLI. THE HÔTEL DE LA POSTE
CHAPTER XLII. THE CHAMBÉRY MAIL-COACH
CHAPTER XLIII. LORD GRENVILLE’S REPLY
CHAPTER XLIV. CHANGE OF RESIDENCE
CHAPTER XLV. THE FOLLOWER OF TRAILS
CHAPTER XLVI. AN INSPIRATION
CHAPTER XLVII. A RECONNOISSANCE
CHAPTER XLVIII. IN WHICH MORGAN’S PRESENTIMENTS ARE VERIFIED
CHAPTER XLIX. ROLAND’S REVENGE
CHAPTER L. CADOUDAL AT THE TUILERIES
CHAPTER LI. THE ARMY OF THE RESERVES
CHAPTER LII. THE TRIAL
CHAPTER LIII. IN WHICH AMÉLIE KEEPS HER WORD
CHAPTER LIV. THE CONFESSION
CHAPTER LV. INVULNERABLE
CHAPTER LVI. CONCLUSION
CHICOT THE JESTER
Abridged translation of “La dame de Monsoreau”
By Alexandre Dumas
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER XXVI.
CHAPTER XXVII.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
CHAPTER XXIX.
CHAPTER XXX.
CHAPTER XXXI.
CHAPTER XXXII.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
CHAPTER XXXV.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XLI.
CHAPTER XLII.
CHAPTER XLIII.
CHAPTER XLIV.
CHAPTER XLV.
CHAPTER XLVI.
CHAPTER XLVII.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
CHAPTER XLIX.
CHAPTER L.
CHAPTER LI.
CHAPTER LII.
CHAPTER LIII.
CHAPTER LIV.
CHAPTER LV.
CHAPTER LVI.
CHAPTER LVII.
CHAPTER LVIII.
CHAPTER LIX.
CHAPTER LX.
CHAPTER LXI.
CHAPTER LXII.
CHAPTER LXIII.
CHAPTER LXIV.
CHAPTER LXV.
CHAPTER LXVI.
CHAPTER LXVII.
CHAPTER LXVIII.
CHAPTER LXIX.
CHAPTER LXX.
CHAPTER LXXI.
CHAPTER LXXII.
CHAPTER LXXIII.
CHAPTER LXXIV.
CHAPTER LXXV.
CHAPTER LXXVI.
CHAPTER LXXVII.
CHAPTER LXXVIII.
CHAPTER LXXIX.
CHAPTER LXXX.
CHAPTER LXXXI.
CHAPTER LXXXII.
CHAPTER LXXXIII.
CHAPTER LXXXIV.
CHAPTER LXXXV.
CHAPTER LXXXVI.
CHAPTER LXXXVII.
CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
CHAPTER LXXXIX.
CHAPTER XC.
CHAPTER XCI.
CHAPTER XCII.
CHAPTER XCIII.
CHAPTER XCIV.
CHAPTER XCV.
CHAPTER XCVI.
CHAPTER XCVII.
THE CONSPIRATORS.
1. Captain Roquefinette 240
2. The Meeting 243
3. The Chevalier 247
4. A Bal-Masque of the Period.--The Bat 251
5. The Arsenal 257
6. The Prince de Cellamare 261
7. Alberoni 264
8. The Garret 269
9. A Citizen of the Rue du Temps-Perdu 272
10. The Agreement 276
11. Pros and Cons 279
12. The Denis Family 285
13. The Crimson Ribbon 290
14. The Rue des bons Enfants 295
15. Jean Buvat 301
16. Bathilde 310
17. First Love 319
18. The Consul Duilius 325
19. The Abbe Dubois 331
20. The Conspiracy 335
21. The Order of the Honey Bee 338
22. The Queen of the Greenlanders 340
23. The Duc de Richelieu 344
24. Jealousy 348
25. A Pretext 352
26. Counterplots 355
27. The Seventh Heaven 360
28. Fenelon's Successor 363
29. The Prince de Listhnay's Accomplice 368
30. The Fox and Goose 372
31. A Chapter of Saint-Simon 376
32. A Snare 378
33. The Beginning of the End 382
34. Parliamentary Justice 387
35. Man Proposes 391
36. David and Goliath 395
37. The Savior of France 400
38. God Disposes 408
39. A Prime Minister's Memory 412
40. Boniface 416
41. The Three Visits 420
42. The Closet 424
43. The Marriage in Extremis 427
Postscriptum 429
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
7.—He attacked the captain with such fury that their swords engaged at the hilt.
8.—D'Harmental.
9.—He then returned to his work with all the eagerness of an artist.
10.—The chevalier set Mirza to eat sugar.
11.—Buvat found himself in a sort of laboratory, situated on the ground-floor.
12.—The body of the captain lay stretched on the floor, swimming in a sea of blood.
THE PRUSSIAN TERROR
BY
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
A FIRST TRANSLATION FROM THE FRENCH
BY
R.S. GARNETT
1916
GAMBETTA.
CONTENTS
TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. BERLIN
II. THE HOUSE OF HOHENZOLLERN
III. COUNT VON BISMARCK
IV. IN WHICH BISMARCK EMERGES FROM AN IMPOSSIBLE POSITION
V. A SPORTSMAN AND A SPANIEL
VI. BENEDICT TURPIN
VII. KAULBACH'S STUDIO
VIII. THE CHALLENGE
IX. THE TWO DUELS
X. WHAT WAS WRITTEN IN A KING'S HAND
XI. BARON FREDERIC VON BÜLOW
XII. HELEN
XIII. COUNT KARL VON FREYBERG
XIV. THE GRANDMOTHER
XV. FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN
XVI. THE DEPARTURE
XVII. AUSTRIANS AND PRUSSIANS
XVIII. THE DECLARATION OF WAR
XIX. THE BATTLE OF LANGENSALZA
XX. IN WHICH BENEDICT'S PREDICTION CONTINUES TO BE FULFILLED
XXI. WHAT PASSED AT FRANKFURT BETWEEN THE BATTLES OF LANGENSALZA AND SADOWA
XXII. THE FREE MEAL
XXIII. THE BATTLE OF ASCHAFFENBURG
XXIV. THE EXECUTOR
XXV. FRISK
XXVI. THE WOUNDED MAN
XXVII. THE PRUSSIANS AT FRANKFORT
XXVIII. GENERAL MANTEUFFEL'S THREATS
XXIX. GENERAL STURM
XXX. THE BREAKING OF THE STORM
XXXI. THE BURGOMASTER
XXXII. QUEEN AUGUSTA
XXXIII. THE TWO PROCESSIONS
XXXIV. THE TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD
XXXV. THE MARRIAGE IN EXTREMIS
XXXVI. "WAIT AND SEE"
CONCLUSION
EPILOGUE
CAPTAIN PAUL
By Alexandre Dumas, pere
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.
CAPTAIN PAUL.
CHAPTER I—A STRANGE SAIL
CHAPTER II.—THE FRIGATE.
CHAPTER III.—THE SEA FIGHT.
CHAPTER IV.—THE MARCHIONESS.
CHAPTER V.—DEVOTED LOVE.
CHAPTER VI. BROTHER AND SISTER.
CHAPTER VII.—THE FAITHFUL SERVANT.
CHAPTER VIII.—THE SECRET.
CHAPTER IX.—FATAL LOVE.
CHAPTER X.—CONFIDENCE.
CHAPTER XI.—THE COURTIER.
CHAPTER XII.—THE CHALLENGE.
CHAPTER XIII.—THE CONTRACT.
CHAPTER XIV.—RELIGIOUS CONVICTION.
CHAPTER XV.—THE PAPERS.
CHAPTER XVI.—RECRIMINATION.
CHAPTER XVII.—THE BROTHERS
CHAPTER XVIII—RECOGNITION.
CHAPTER XIX.—THE FAREWELL.
EPILOGUE.
THE SICILIAN BANDIT
From the Volume “Captain Paul”
By Alexandre Dumas, pere
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.—INTRODUCTION—PALERMO.
CHAPTER II.—BRUNO AND ALI.
CHAPTER III.—THE FATAL BRIDAL.
CHAPTER IV.—THE PRINCE AND THE BANDIT.
CHAPTER IV.—THE ROBBER’S CASTLE.
CHAPTER VI.—A BANDIT’S GRATITUDE.
CHAPTER VII.—A BRIGAND’S VENGEANCE.
CHAPTER VIII.—-TREACHERY.
CHAPTER IX.—THE SIEGE.
CHAPTER X.—THE CHAPELLE ARDENTE.
CHAPTER XI.—DEATH OF THE BANDIT.
CHAPTER XII.—CONCLUSION.