Ten Years Later

Volume I of Le Vicomte de Bragellone

by Alexandre Dumas

Contents

  1. The Letter.
  2. The Messenger.
  3. The Interview.
  4. Father and Son.
  5. In which Something will be said of Cropoli--of Cropoli and of a Great Unknown Painter.
  6. The Unknown.
  7. Parry.
  8. What his Majesty King Louis XIV. was at the Age of Twenty-Two
  9. In which the Unknown of the Hostelry of Les Medici loses his Incognito.
  10. The Arithmetic of M. de Mazarin
  11. Mazarin’s Policy
  12. The King and the Lieutenant
  13. Mary de Mancini
  14. In which the King and the Lieutenant each give Proofs of Memory
  15. The Proscribed
  16. “Remember!”
  17. In which Aramis is sought and only Bazin is found
  18. In which D’Artagnan seeks Porthos, and only finds Mousqueton
  19. What D’Artagnan went to Paris for
  20. 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
  21. In which D’Artagnan prepares to travel for the Firm of Planchet and Company
  22. D’Artagnan travels for the House of Planchet and Company
  23. In which the Author, very unwillingly, is forced to write a Little History
  24. The Treasure
  25. The March
  26. Heart and Mind
  27. The Next Day
  28. Smuggling
  29. In which D’Artagnan begins to fear he has placed his Money and that of Planchet in the Sinking Fund
  30. The Shares of Planchet and Company rise again to Par
  31. Monk reveals himself
  32. Athos and D’Artagnan meet once more at the Hostelry of the Corne du Cerf
  33. The Audience.
  34. Of the Embarrassment of Riches
  35. On the Canal
  36. How D’Artagnan drew, as a Fairy would have done, a Country-seat from a Deal Box
  37. How D’Artagnan regulated the “Assets” of the Company before he established its “Liabilities”
  38. In which it is seen that the French Grocer had already been established in the Seventeenth Century
  39. Mazarin’s Gaming Party
  40. An Affair of State
  41. The Recital
  42. In which Mazarin becomes Prodigal
  43. Guenaud
  44. Colbert
  45. Confession of a Man of Wealth
  46. The Donation
  47. How Anne of Austria gave one Piece of Advice to Louis XIV., and how M. Fouquet gave him another
  48. Agony
  49. The First Appearance of Colbert
  50. The First Day of the Royalty of Louis XIV
  51. A Passion
  52. D’Artagnan’s Lesson
  53. The King
  54. The Houses of M. Fouquet
  55. The Abbe Fouquet
  56. M. de la Fontaine’s Wine
  57. The Gallery of Saint-Mande
  58. Epicureans
  59. A Quarter of an Hour’s Delay
  60. Plan of Battle
  61. The Cabaret of the Image-de-Notre-Dame
  62. Vive Colbert!
  63. How M. d’Eymeris’s Diamond passed into the Hands of M. D’Artagnan.
  64. Of the Notable Difference D’Artagnan finds between Monsieur the Intendant and Monsieur the Superintendent
  65. Philosophy of the Heart and Mind
  66. The Journey
  67. How D’Artagnan became acquainted with a Poet, who had turned Printer for the sake of printing his own Verses
  68. D’Artagnan continues his Investigations
  69. In which the Reader, no doubt, will be as astonished as D’Artagnan was to meet an Old Acquaintance
  70. Wherein the Ideas of D’Artagnan, at first strangely clouded, begin to clear up a little
  71. A Procession at Vannes
  72. The Grandeur of the Bishop of Vannes
  73. In which Porthos begins to be sorry for having come with D’Artagnan
  74. In which D’Artagnan makes all Speed, Porthos snores, and Aramis counsels
  75. In which Monsieur Fouquet acts
  76. In which D’Artagnan finishes by at length placing his Hand upon his Captain’s Commission
  77. A Lover and his Mistress
  78. In which we at length see the true Heroine of this History appear
  79. Malicorne and Manicamp
  80. Manicamp and Malicorne
  81. The Courtyard of the Hotel Grammont
  82. The Portrait of Madame
  83. Havre
  84. At Sea
  85. The Tents
  86. Night
  87. From Havre to Paris
  88. An Account of what the Chevalier de Lorraine thought of Madame
  89. A Surprise for Madame de Montalais
  90. The Consent of Athos
  91. Monsieur becomes jealous of the Duke of Buckingha
  92. Forever!
  93. King Louis XIV. does not think Mademoiselle de la Valliere either rich enough or pretty enough for a Gentleman of the Rank of the Vicomte de Bragelonne
  94. Sword-thrusts in the Water
  95. Sword-thrusts in the Water (concluded)
  96. Baisemeaux de Montlezun
  97. The King’s Card-table
  98. M. Baisemeaux de Montlezun’s Accounts
  99. The Breakfast at Monsieur de Baisemeaux’s
  100. The Second Floor of la Bertaudiere
  101. The Two Friends
  102. Madame de Belliere’s Plate
  103. The Dowry
  104. Le Terrain de Dieu