d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 1: The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later

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Authors: Alexandre Dumas In Year : 1860

Book Language: English

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The Letter
The Messenger
The Interview
Father and Son
In which Something will be said of Cropoli—of Cropoli and of a Great Unknown Painter
The Unkown
Parry
What his Majesty King Louis XIV. was at the Age of Twenty-Two
In which the Unknown of the Hostelry of Les Medicis loses his Incognito
The Arithmetic of M. de Mazarin
Mazarin's Policy
The King and the Lieutenant
Mary de Mancini
In which the King and the Lieutenant each give Proofs of Memory
The Proscribed
"Remember!"
In which Aramis is sought and only Bazin is found
In which D'Artagnan seeks Porthose and only finds Mousqueton
What D'Artagnan went to Paris for
Of the Society which was formed in the Rue des Lombards, at the Sign of the Pilon d'Or
In which D'Artagnan prepares to travel for the Firm of Planchet and Company
D'Artagnan travels for the House of Planchet and Company
In which the Author, very unwillingly, is forced to write a Little History
The Treasure
The March
Heart and Mind
The Next Day
Smuggling
In which D'Artagnan begins to fear he has placed his Money and that of Planchet in the Sinking Fund
The Shares of Planchet and Company rise again to Par
Monk reveals himself
Athos and D'Artagnan meet once more at the Hostelry of the Corne du Cerf
The Audience
Of the Embarrassment of Riches
On the Canal
How D'Artagnan drew, as a Fairy would have done, a Country-seat from a Deal Box
How D'Artagnan regulated the "Assets" of the Company before he established its "Liabilities"
In which it is seen that the French Grocer had already been established in the Seventeenth Century
Mazarin's Gaming Party
An Affair of State
The Recital
In which Mazarin becomes Prodigal
Guendaud
Colbert
Confession of a Man of Wealth
The Donation
How Anne of Austria gave one Piece of Advice to Louis XIV., and how M. Fouquet gave him another
Agony
The First Appearance of Colbert
The First Day of the Royalty of Louis XIV
A Passion
D'Artagnan's Lesson
The King
The Houses of M. Fouquet
The Abbe Fouquet
M. de la Fontaine's Wine
The Gallery of Saint-Mande
Epicureans
A Quarter of an Hour's Delay
Plan of Battle
The Cabaret of the Image-de-Notre-Dame
Vive Colbert!
How M. D'Eymeris' Diamond passed into the Hands of M. D'Artagnan
Of the Notable Difference D'Artagnan finds between M. the Intendant and M. the Superintendant
Philosophy of the Heart and Mind
The Journey
How D'Artagnan became acquainted with a Poet, who had turned Printer for the sake of printing his own Verses
D'Artagnan continues his Investigations
In which the Reader, no doubt, will be as astonished as D'Artagnan was to meet an Old Acquaintance
Wherein the Ideas of D'Artagnan, at first strangely clouded, begin to clear up a little
A Procession at Vannes
The Grandeur of the Bishop of Vannes
In which Porthos begins to be sorry for having come with D'Artagnan
In which D'Artagnan makes all Speed, Porthos snores, and Aramis counsels
In which M. Fouquet acts
In which D'Artagnan finished by at length placing his Hand upon his Captains Commission
A Lover and his Mistress
In which we at length see the true Heroine of this History appear
Malicorne and Manicamp
Manicamp and Malicorne
The Courtyard of the Hotel Grammont
The Portrait of Madame
Havre
At Sea
The Tents
Night
From Havre to Paris
An Account of what the Chevalier de Lorraine thought of Madame
A Surprise for Madame de Montalais
The Consent of Athos
Monsieur becomes jealous of the Duke of Buckingham
Forever!
King Louis XIV. does not think Mademoiselle de la Valliere either rich enough or pretty enough
Sword-thrusts in the Water
Sword-thrusts in the Water (concluded)
Baisemeaux de Montlezun
The King's Card-table
M. Baisemeaux de Montlezun's Accounts
The Breakfast at M. de Baisemeaux's
The Second Floor of la Bertaudiere
The Two Friends
Madame de Belliere's Plate
The Dowry
Le Terrain de Dieu

Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. The first begins in 1660, ten years after Volume 2, with d’Artagnan as Lieutenant of the King’s Musketeers. In this post, he is very near to achieving his dream (becoming Captain) and even nearer to his King, being young Louis XIV’s personal guard. Seeing first-hand how powerless the child King was, d’Artagnan resigns his illustrious, but dull, post to turn his sharp wit and sword toward another ambitious aim: restoration of the English monarchy. To the joy of France, Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum that pulls at the ill-fated ambitions of the rich and powerful, Nicolas Fouquet. To combat Fouquet’s ambitions and wrench the nation back from the brink of bankruptcy, young Louis XIV takes the Cardinal’s dying advice and leagues with the economic and sociopolitical reformist, Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Unfortunately, “The Inseparables” again find each other on different sides of the power struggle: Aramis and Porthos with Fouquet, but d’Artagnan and Athos with the King and Colbert. As d’Artagnan advises King Louis XIV, “The reign of Mazarin is over, but that of the financiers is begun. They have the money; your majesty will not often see much of it. To live under the paw of these hungry wolves is hard.” - Summary by jvanstan