Twenty Years After is a novel by Alexandre Dumas. This sequel to 'The Three Musketeers' plunges the quartet of heroes into a France on the verge of the Fronde. Despite having aged, the comrades are resolved to oppose every challenge that comes their way.

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I: The Ghost of Cardinal Richelieu

II: A Nightly Patrol

III: Dead Animosities

IV: Anne of Austria at the Age of Forty-Six

V: The Gascon and the Italian

VI: D’Artagnan in His Fortieth Year

VII: Touches Upon the Strange Effects a Half-Pistole May Have Upon a Beadle and a Chorister

VIII: How d’Artagnan, on Going to a Distance to Discover Aramis, Discovers His Old Friend on Horseback Behind His Own Planchet

IX: The Abbé d’Herblay

X: Monsieur Porthos du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds

XI: How d’Artagnan, in Discovering the Retreat of Porthos, Perceives That Wealth Does Not Necessarily Produce Happiness

XII: In Which It Is Shown That if Porthos Was Discontented with His Condition, Mousqueton Was Completely Satisfied with His

XIII: Two Angelic Faces

XIV: The Castle of Bragelonne

XV: Athos as a Diplomatist

XVI: The Duc de Beaufort

XVII: Describes How the Duc de Beaufort Amused His Leisure Hours in the Donjon of Vincennes

XVIII: Grimaud Begins His Functions

XIX: In Which the Contents of the Pâtés Made by the Successor of Father Marteau Are Described

XX: One of Marie Michon’s Adventures

XXI: The Abbé Scarron

XXII: Saint Denis

XXIII: One of the Forty Methods of Escape of the Duc de Beaufort

XXIV: The Timely Arrival of d’Artagnan in Paris

XXV: An Adventure on the High Road

XXVI: The Rencontre

XXVII: The Four Old Friends Prepare to Meet Again

XXVIII: The Place Royale

XXIX: The Ferry Across the Oise

XXX: Skirmishing

XXXI: The Monk

XXXII: The Absolution

XXXIII: Grimaud Speaks

XXXIV: On the Eve of Battle

XXXV: A Dinner in the Old Style

XXXVI: A Letter from Charles the First

XXXVII: Cromwell’s Letter

XXXVIII: Henrietta Maria and Mazarin

XXXIX: How, Sometimes, the Unhappy Mistake Chance for Providence

XL: Uncle and Nephew

XLI: Paternal Affection

XLII: Another Queen in Want of Help

XLIII: In Which It Is Proved That First Impulses Are Oftentimes the Best

XLIV: Te Deum for the Victory of Lens

XLV: The Beggar of St. Eustache

XLVI: The Tower of St. Jacques de la Boucherie

XLVII: The Riot

XLVIII: The Riot Becomes a Revolution

XLIX: Misfortune Refreshes the Memory

L: The Interview

LI: The Flight

LII: The Carriage of Monsieur le Coadjuteur

LIII: 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

LIV: In Which We Hear Tidings of Aramis

LV: The Scotchman

LVI: The Avenger

LVII: Oliver Cromwell

LVIII: Jésus Seigneur

LIX: In Which It Is Shown That Under the Most Trying Circumstances Noble Natures Never Lose Their Courage, nor Good Stomachs Their Appetites

LX: Respect to Fallen Majesty

LXI: D’Artagnan Hits on a Plan

LXII: London

LXIII: The Trial

LXIV: Whitehall

LXV: The Workmen

LXVI: Remember!

LXVII: The Man in the Mask

LXVIII: Cromwell’s House

LXIX: Conversational

LXX: The Skiff Lightning

LXXI: Port Wine

LXXII: End of the Port Wine Mystery

LXXIII: Fatality

LXXIV: How Mousqueton, After Being Very Nearly Roasted, Had a Narrow Escape of Being Eaten

LXXV: The Return

LXXVI: The Ambassadors

LXXVII: The Three Lieutenants of the Generalissimo

LXXVIII: The Battle of Charenton

LXXIX: The Road to Picardy

LXXX: The Gratitude of Anne of Austria

LXXXI: Cardinal Mazarin as King

LXXXII: Precautions

LXXXIII: Strength and Sagacity

LXXXIV: Strength and Sagacity—Continued

LXXXV: The Oubliettes of Cardinal Mazarin

LXXXVI: Conferences

LXXXVII: In Which We Begin to Think That Porthos Will Be at Last a Baron, and d’Artagnan a Captain

LXXXVIII: Shows How with Threat and Pen More Is Effected Than by the Sword

LXXXIX: In Which It Is Shown That It Is Sometimes More Difficult for Kings to Return to the Capitals of Their Kingdoms, Than to Make an Exit