Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers (Complete Series)

Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise da la Valliere & The Man in the Iron Mask

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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

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

Preface

Chapter 1. The Three Presents of d’Artagnan the Elder

Chapter 2. The Antechamber of M. de Treville

Chapter 3. The Audience

Chapter 4. The Shoulder of Athos, the Baldric of Porthos and the Handkerchief of Aramis

Chapter 5. The King’s Musketeers and the Cardinal’s Guards

Chapter 6. His Majesty King Louis XIII

Chapter 7. The Interior of “The Musketeers”

Chapter 8. Concerning a Court Intrigue

Chapter 9. D’Artagnan Shows Himself

Chapter 10. A Mousetrap in the Seventeenth Century

Chapter 11. In which the Plot Thickens

Chapter 12. George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Chapter 13. Monsieur Bonacieux

Chapter 14. The Man of Meung

Chapter 15. Men of the Robe and Men of the Sword

Chapter 16. M. Seguier, Keeper of the Seals, Looks More Than Once for the Bell, in Order to Ring it, as He Did Before

Chapter 17. Bonacieux at Home

Chapter 18. Lover and Husband

Chapter 19. Plan of Campaign

Chapter 20. The Journey

Chapter 21. The Countess de Winter

Chapter 22. The Ballet of la Merlaison

Chapter 23. The Rendezvous

Chapter 24. The Pavilion

Chapter 25. Porthos

Chapter 26. Aramis and His Thesis

Chapter 27. The Wife of Athos

Chapter 28. The Return

Chapter 29. Hunting for the Equipments

Chapter 30. D’Artagnan and the Englishman

Chapter 31. English and French

Chapter 32. A Procurator’s Dinner

Chapter 33. Soubrette and Mistress

Chapter 34. In which the Equipment of Aramis and Porthos is Treated of

Chapter 35. A Gascon a Match for Cupid

Chapter 36. Dream of Vengeance

Chapter 37. Milady’s Secret

Chapter 38. How, Without Incommoding Himself, Athos Procured His Equipment

Chapter 39. A Vision

Chapter 40. A Terrible Vision

Chapter 41. The Siege of La Rochelle

Chapter 42. The Anjou Wine

Chapter 43. The Sign of the Red Dovecot

Chapter 44. The Utility of Stovepipes

Chapter 45. A Conjugal Scene

Chapter 46. The Bastion Saint-Gervais

Chapter 47. The Council of the Musketeers

Chapter 48. A Family Affair

Chapter 49. Fatality

Chapter 50. Chat Between Brother and Sister

Chapter 51. Officer

Chapter 52. Captivity: The First Day

Chapter 53. Captivity: The Second Day

Chapter 54. Captivity: The Third Day

Chapter 55. Captivity: The Fourth Day

Chapter 56. Captivity: The Fifth Day

Chapter 57. Means for Classical Tragedy

Chapter 58. Escape

Chapter 59. What Took Place at Portsmouth

Chapter 60. In France

Chapter 61. The Carmelite Convent at Bethune

Chapter 62. Two Varieties of Demons

Chapter 63. The Drop of Water

Chapter 64. The Man in the Red Cloak

Chapter 65. Trial

Chapter 66. Execution

Chapter 67. Conclusion

Chapter 68. Epilogue

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In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names’ ending in OS and IS, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them.

A short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my History of Louis XIV, I stumbled by chance upon the Memoirs of M. d’Artagnan, printed—as were most of the works of that period, in which authors could not tell the truth without the risk of a residence, more or less long, in the Bastille—at Amsterdam, by Pierre Rouge. The title attracted me; I took them home with me, with the permission of the guardian, and devoured them.

It is not my intention here to enter into an analysis of this curious work; and I shall satisfy myself with referring such of my readers as appreciate the pictures of the period to its pages. They will therein find portraits penciled by the hand of a master; and although these squibs may be, for the most part, traced upon the doors of barracks and the walls of cabarets, they will not find the likenesses of Louis XIII, Anne of Austria, Richelieu, Mazarin, and the courtiers of the period, less faithful than in the history of M. Anquetil.

But, it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers. Now, while admiring, as others doubtless will admire, the details we have to relate, our main preoccupation concerned a matter to which no one before ourselves had given a thought.

D’Artagnan relates that on his first visit to M. de Treville, captain of the king’s Musketeers, he met in the antechamber three young men, serving in the illustrious corps into which he was soliciting the honor of being received, bearing the names of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.

We must confess these three strange names struck us; and it immediately occurred to us that they were but pseudonyms, under which d’Artagnan had disguised names perhaps illustrious, or else that the bearers of these borrowed names had themselves chosen them on the day in which, from caprice, discontent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple Musketeer’s uniform.