The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas is the third and last of The D'Artagnan Romances. The story stages five years after the events of 'Twenty Years After' and the Musketeers are in their late years. The book captures their adventures and trials in their quests in accomplishing their obsessions.

Titlepage

Imprint

Introductory Note

Dramatis Personae

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: Marie 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 the Idea of M. d’Artagnan

21: In Which d’Artagnan Prepares to Travel for the House 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 Marsh

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: Monck 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: Guénaud

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. Foquet 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 Abbé Fouquet

56: M. de La Fontaine’s Wine

57: The Gallery of Saint-Mandé

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: On 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 at Last Places 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 Hôtel Grammont

82: The Portrait of Madame

83: Le Havre

84: At Sea

85: The Tents

86: Night

87: From Le Havre to Paris

88: An Account of What the Chevalier de Lorraine Thought of Madame

89: The Surprise of Madame de Montalais

90: The Consent of Athos

91: Monsieur Becomes Jealous of the Duke of Buckingham

92: Forever!

Part I: The Vicomte de Braggelone

93: King Louis XIV Does Not Think Mademoiselle de La Vallière 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 Bertaudière

101: The Two Friends

102: Madame de Bellière’s Plate

103: The Dowry

104: Le Terrain de Dieu

105: Threefold Love

106: M. de Lorraine’s Jealousy

107: Monsieur Is Jealous of Guiche

108: The Mediator

109: The Advisers

110: Fontainebleau

111: The Bath

112: The Butterfly-Chase

113: What Was Caught After the Butterflies

114: The Ballet of the Seasons

115: The Nymphs of the Park of Fontainebleau

116: What Was Said Under the Royal Oak

117: The King’s Uneasiness

118: The King’s Secret

119: Courses de Nuit

120: In Which Madame Acquires a Proof That Listeners Hear What Is Said

121: Aramis’s Correspondence

122: The Orderly Clerk

123: Fontainebleau at Two O’Clock in the Morning

124: The Labyrinth

125: How Malicorne Had Been Turned Out of the Hotel of the Beau Paon

126: What Actually Occurred at the Inn Called the Beau Paon

127: A Jesuit of the Eleventh Year

128: The State Secret

129: A Mission

130: Happy as a Prince

131: Story of a Dryad and a Naiad

132: Conclusion of the Story of a Naiad and of a Dryad

133: Royal Psychology

134: Something That Neither Naiad nor Dryad Foresaw

135: The New General of the Jesuits

136: The Storm

137: The Shower of Rain

138: Toby

139: Madame’s Four Chances

140: The Lottery

141: Malaga

142: A Letter from M. Baisemeaux

143: In Which the Reader Will Be Delighted to Find That Porthos Has Lost Nothing of His Strength

144: The Rat and the Cheese

145: Planchet’s Country-House

146: Showing What Could Be Seen from Planchet’s House

147: How Porthos, Trüchen, and Planchet Parted with Each Other on Friendly Terms, Thanks to d’Artagnan

148: The Presentation of Porthos at Court

149: Explanations

150: Madame and de Guiche

151: Montalais and Malicorne

152: How de Wardes Was Received at Court

153: The Combat

154: The King’s Supper

155: After Supper

156: Showing in What Way d’Artagnan Discharged the Mission with Which the King Had Entrusted Him

157: The Encounter

158: The Physician

159: Wherein d’Artagnan Perceives That It Was He Who Was Mistaken, and Manicamp Who Was Right

160: Showing the Advantage of Having Two Strings to One’s Bow

161: M. Malicorne the Keeper of the Records of France

162: The Journey

163: Triumfeminate

164: The First Quarrel

165: Despair

166: The Flight

167: Showing How Louis, on His Part, Had Passed the Time from Ten to Half-Past Twelve at Night

168: The Ambassadors

169: Chaillot

170: Madame

171: Mademoiselle de La Vallière’s Pocket-Handkerchief

172: Which Treats of Gardeners, of Ladders, and Maids of Honor

173: Which Treats of Carpentry Operations, and Furnishes Details Upon the Mode of Constructing Staircases

174: The Promenade by Torchlight

175: The Apparition

176: The Portrait

177: Hampton Court

178: The Courier from Madame

179: Saint-Aignan Follows Malicorne’s Advice

Part II: Louise de La Vallière

180: Two Old Friends

181: Wherein May Be Seen That a Bargain Which Cannot Be Made with One Person, Can Be Carried Out with Another

182: The Skin of the Bear

183: An Interview with the Queen-Mother

184: Two Friends

185: How Jean de La Fontaine Came to Write His First Tale

186: La Fontaine in the Character of a Negotiator

187: Madame de Bellière’s Plate and Diamonds

188: M. de Mazarin’s Receipt

189: Monsieur Colbert’s Rough Draft

190: In Which the Author Thinks It Is High Time to Return to the Vicomte de Bragelonne