Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers (Complete Series)

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La Rochelle, deprived of the assistance of the English fleet and of the diversion promised by Buckingham, surrendered after a siege of a year. On the twenty-eighth of October, 1628, the capitulation was signed.

The king made his entrance into Paris on the twenty-third of December of the same year. He was received in triumph, as if he came from conquering an enemy and not Frenchmen. He entered by the Faubourg St. Jacques, under verdant arches.

D’Artagnan took possession of his command. Porthos left the service, and in the course of the following year married Mme. Coquenard; the coffer so much coveted contained eight hundred thousand livres.

Mousqueton had a magnificent livery, and enjoyed the satisfaction of which he had been ambitious all his life—that of standing behind a gilded carriage.

Aramis, after a journey into Lorraine, disappeared all at once, and ceased to write to his friends; they learned at a later period through Mme. de Chevreuse, who told it to two or three of her intimates, that, yielding to his vocation, he had retired into a convent—only into which, nobody knew.

Bazin became a lay brother.

Athos remained a Musketeer under the command of d’Artagnan till the year 1633, at which period, after a journey he made to Touraine, he also quit the service, under the pretext of having inherited a small property in Roussillon.

Grimaud followed Athos.

D’Artagnan fought three times with Rochefort, and wounded him three times.

“I shall probably kill you the fourth,” said he to him, holding out his hand to assist him to rise.

“It is much better both for you and for me to stop where we are,” answered the wounded man. “CORBLEU—I am more your friend than you think—for after our very first encounter, I could by saying a word to the cardinal have had your throat cut!”

They this time embraced heartily, and without retaining any malice.

Planchet obtained from Rochefort the rank of sergeant in the Piedmont regiment.

M. Bonacieux lived on very quietly, wholly ignorant of what had become of his wife, and caring very little about it. One day he had the imprudence to recall himself to the memory of the cardinal. The cardinal had him informed that he would provide for him so that he should never want for anything in future. In fact, M. Bonacieux, having left his house at seven o’clock in the evening to go to the Louvre, never appeared again in the Rue des Fossoyeurs; the opinion of those who seemed to be best informed was that he was fed and lodged in some royal castle, at the expense of his generous Eminence.

Table of Contents Table of Contents D'Artagnan Collection: D'Artagnan Collection Table of Contents THE THREE MUSKETEERS THE THREE MUSKETEERS Table of Contents TWENTY YEARS AFTER TWENTY YEARS AFTER Table of Contents THE VICOMTE OF BRAGELONNE TEN YEARS AFTER LOUISE DE LA VALLIERE THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK Essays & Biography: A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS’S by Robert Louis Stevenson ALEXANDRE DUMAS from ESSAYS IN LITTLE by Andrew Lang ALEXANDRE DUMAS by Adolphe Cohn

Table of Contents Table of Contents D'Artagnan Collection: D'Artagnan Collection Table of Contents THE THREE MUSKETEERS THE THREE MUSKETEERS Table of Contents TWENTY YEARS AFTER TWENTY YEARS AFTER Table of Contents THE VICOMTE OF BRAGELONNE TEN YEARS AFTER LOUISE DE LA VALLIERE THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK Essays & Biography: A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS’S by Robert Louis Stevenson ALEXANDRE DUMAS from ESSAYS IN LITTLE by Andrew Lang ALEXANDRE DUMAS by Adolphe Cohn

Chapter 1. The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu.

Chapter 2. A Nightly Patrol.

Chapter 3. Dead Animosities.

Chapter 4. Anne of Austria at the Age of Forty-six.

Chapter 5. The Gascon and the Italian.

Chapter 6. D’Artagnan in his Fortieth Year.

Chapter 7. Touches upon the Strange Effects a Half-pistole may have upon a Beadle and a Chorister.

Chapter 8. How D’Artagnan, on going to a Distance to discover Aramis, discovers his old Friend on Horseback behind his own Planchet.

Chapter 9. The Abbe D’Herblay.

Chapter 10. Monsieur Porthos du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds.

Chapter 11. How D’Artagnan, in discovering the Retreat of Porthos, perceives that Wealth does not necessarily produce Happiness.

Chapter 12. In which it is shown that if Porthos was discontented with his Condition, Mousqueton was completely satisfied with his.

Chapter 13. Two Angelic Faces.

Chapter 14. The Castle of Bragelonne.

Chapter 15. Athos as a Diplomatist.

Chapter 16. The Duc de Beaufort.

Chapter 17. Describes how the Duc de Beaufort amused his Leisure Hours in the Donjon of Vincennes.

Chapter 18. Grimaud begins his Functions.

Chapter 19. In which the Contents of the Pates made by the Successor of Father Marteau are described.

Chapter 20. One of Marie Michon’s Adventures.

Chapter 21. The Abbe Scarron.

Chapter 22. Saint Denis.

Chapter 23. One of the Forty Methods of Escape of the Duc de Beaufort.

Chapter 24. The timely Arrival of D’Artagnan in Paris.

Chapter 25. An Adventure on the High Road.

Chapter 26. The Rencontre.

Chapter 27. The four old Friends prepare to meet again.

Chapter 28. The Place Royale.

Chapter 29. The Ferry across the Oise.

Chapter 30. Skirmishing.

Chapter 31. The Monk.

Chapter 32. The Absolution.

Chapter 33. Grimaud Speaks.

Chapter 34. On the Eve of Battle.

Chapter 35. A Dinner in the Old Style.

Chapter 36. A Letter from Charles the First.

Chapter 37. Cromwell’s Letter.

Chapter 38. Henrietta Maria and Mazarin.

Chapter 39. How, sometimes, the Unhappy mistake Chance for Providence.

Chapter 40. Uncle and Nephew.

Chapter 41. Paternal Affection.

Chapter 42. Another Queen in Want of Help.

Chapter 43. In which it is proved that first Impulses are oftentimes the best.

Chapter 44. Te Deum for the Victory of Lens.

Chapter 45. The Beggar of St. Eustache.

Chapter 46. The Tower of St. Jacques de la Boucherie.

Chapter 47. The Riot.

Chapter 48. The Riot becomes a Revolution.

Chapter 49. Misfortune refreshes the Memory.

Chapter 50. The Interview.

Chapter 51. The Flight.

Chapter 52. The Carriage of Monsieur le Coadjuteur.

Chapter 53. How D’Artagnan and Porthos earned by selling Straw, the one Two Hundred and Nineteen, and the other Two Hundred and Fifteen Louis d’or.

Chapter 54. In which we hear Tidings of Aramis.

Chapter 55. The Scotchman.

Chapter 56. The Avenger.

Chapter 57. Oliver Cromwell.

Chapter 58. Jesus Seigneur.

Chapter 59. In which it is shown that under the most trying Circumstances noble Natures never lose Courage, nor good Stomachs their Appetites.

Chapter 60. Respect to Fallen Majesty.

Chapter 61. D’Artagnan hits on a Plan.

Chapter 62. London.

Chapter 63. The Trial.

Chapter 64. Whitehall.

Chapter 65. The Workmen.

Chapter 66. Remember!

Chapter 67. The Man in the Mask.

Chapter 68. Cromwell’s House.

Chapter 69. Conversational.

Chapter 70. The Skiff “Lightning.”

Chapter 71. Port Wine.

Chapter 72. End of the Port Wine Mystery.

Chapter 73. Fatality.

Chapter 74. How Mousqueton, after being very nearly roasted, had a Narrow Escape of being eaten.

Chapter 75. The Return.

Chapter 76. The Ambassadors.

Chapter 77. The three Lieutenants of the Generalissimo.

Chapter 78. The Battle of Charenton.

Chapter 79. The Road to Picardy.

Chapter 80. The Gratitude of Anne of Austria.