The Vicomte de Bragelonne

By Dumas, Pere Alexandre

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Title:	The Vicomte de Bragelonne
Author:	Dumas, Pere Alexandre
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Excerpt
Introduction: In the months of March?July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, 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 man named D'Artagnan who, upon entering Paris, became almost immediately embroiled in court intrigues, international politics, and ill?fated affairs between royal lovers. Over the next six years, readers would enjoy the adventures of this youth and his three famous friends, Porthos, Athos, and Aramis, as their exploits unraveled behind the scenes of some of the most momentous events in French and even English history.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Vicomte de Bragelonne, 1 -- Alexandre Dumas, Pere, 1 -- Introduction:, 3 -- The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, 4 -- Chapter I: The Letter, 4 -- Chapter II: The Messenger, 9 -- Chapter III: The Interview, 15 -- Chapter IV: Father and Son, 21 -- Chapter V: In which Something will be said of Cropoli?of Cropoli and of a Great Unknown -- Painter, 25 -- Chapter VI: The Unknown, 28 -- Chapter VII: Parry, 33 -- Chapter VIII: What his Majesty King Louis XIV. was at the Age of Twenty?Two, 37 -- Chapter IX: In which the Unknown of the Hostelry of Les Medici loses his Incognito, 44 -- Chapter X: The Arithmetic of M. de Mazarin, 52 -- Chapter XI: Mazarin's Policy, 59 -- Chapter XII: The King and the Lieutenant, 64 -- Chapter XIII: Mary de Mancini, 67 -- Chapter XIV: In which the King and the Lieutenant each give Proofs of Memory, 71 -- Chapter XV: The Proscribed, 77 -- Chapter XVI: ?Remember!?, 80 -- Chapter XVII: In which Aramis is sought, and only Bazin is found, 87 -- Chapter XVIII: In which D'Artagnan seeks Porthos, and only finds Mousqueton, 94 -- Chapter XIX: What D'Artagnan went to Paris for, 100 -- 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, 104 -- Chapter XXI: In which D'Artagnan prepares to travel for the Firm of Planchet &Company, 112 -- Chapter XXII: D'Artagnan travels for the House of Planchet and Company, 116 -- Chapter XXIII: In which the Author, very unwillingly, is forced to write a Little History, 119 -- Chapter XXIV: The Treasure, 128 -- Chapter XXV: The Marsh, 132 -- Chapter XXVI: Heart and Mind, 138 -- Chapter XXVII: The Next Day, 144 -- Chapter XXVIII: Smuggling, 148 -- Chapter XXIX: In which D'Artagnan begins to fear he has placed his Money and that of -- Planchet in the Sinking Fund, 154 -- Chapter XXX: The Shares of Planchet and Company rise again to Par, 159 -- Chapter XXXI: Monk reveals Himself, 163 -- Chapter XXXII: Athos and D'Artagnan meet once more at the Hostelry of the Corne du Cerf, 165 -- Chapter XXXIII: The Audience, 173 -- Chapter XXXIV: Of the Embarrassment of Riches, 177 -- Chapter XXXV: On the Canal, 182 -- Chapter XXXVI: How D'Artagnan drew, as a Fairy would have done, a Country?Seat from a -- Deal Box, 187 -- Chapter XXXVII: How D'Artagnan regulated the ?Assets? of the Company before he -- established its ?Liabilities.?, 193 -- Chapter XXXVIII: In which it is seen that the French Grocer had already been established in the -- Seventeenth Century, 197