The Man in the Iron Mask.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1012 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland : The Floating Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the final book in Dumas' d'Artagnon Romances trilogy. The book is in four parts, of which this is the fourth. According to French academic Jean-Yves Tadie, the real subject of the book is the beginning of King Louis XIV's rule.

Contents:

Title; Contents; Chapter I: The Prisoner.; Chapter II: How Mouston Had Become Fatter without Giving Porthos Notice Thereof, and of the Troubles Which Consequently Befell t; Chapter III: Who Messire Jean Percerin Was.; Chapter IV: The Patterns.; Chapter V: Where, Probably, Moliere Obtained His First Idea of the Bourgeois Gentilhomme.; Chapter VI: The Bee-Hive, the Bees, and the Honey.; Chapter VII: Another Supper at the Bastile.; Chapter VIII: The General of the Order.; Chapter IX: The Tempter.; Chapter X: Crown and Tiara.; Chapter XI: The Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte.

Chapter XII: The Wine of Melun.Chapter XIII: Nectar and Ambrosia.; Chapter XIV: A Gascon, and a Gascon and a Half.; Chapter XV: Colbert.; Chapter XVI: Jealousy.; Chapter XVII: High Treason.; Chapter XVIII: A Night at the Bastile.; Chapter XIX: The Shadow of M. Fouquet.; Chapter XX: The Morning.; Chapter XXI: The King's Friend.; Chapter XXII: Showing How the Countersign Was Respected at the Bastile.; Chapter XXIII: The King's Gratitude.; Chapter XXIV: The False King.; Chapter XXV: In Which Porthos Thinks He Is Pursuing a Duchy.; Chapter XXVI: The Last Adieux.

Chapter XXVII: Monsieur de Beaufort.Chapter XXVIII: Preparations for Departure.; Chapter XXIX: Planchet's Inventory.; Chapter XXX: The Inventory of M. de Beaufort.; Chapter XXXI: The Silver Dish.; Chapter XXXII: Captive and Jailers.; Chapter XXXIII: Promises.; Chapter XXXIV: Among Women.; Chapter XXXV: The Last Supper.; Chapter XXXVI: In M. Colbert's Carriage.; Chapter XXXVII: The Two Lighters.; Chapter XXXVIII: Friendly Advice.; Chapter XXXIX: How the King, Louis XIV., Played His Little Part.; Chapter XL: The White Horse and the Black.

Chapter XLI: In Which the Squirrel Falls, the Adder Flies.Chapter XLII: Belle-Ile-en-Mer.; Chapter XLIII: Explanations by Aramis.; Chapter XLIV: Result of the Ideas of the King, and the Ideas of D'Artagnan.; Chapter XLV: The Ancestors of Porthos.; Chapter XLVI: The Son of Biscarrat.; Chapter XLVII: The Grotto of Locmaria.; Chapter XLVIII: The Grotto.; Chapter XLIX: An Homeric Song.; Chapter L: The Death of a Titan.; Chapter LI: Porthos's Epitaph.; Chapter LII: M. de Gesvres's Round.; Chapter LIII: King Louis XIV.; Chapter LIV: M. Fouquet's Friends.; Chapter LV: Porthos's Will.

Chapter LVI: The Old Age of Athos.Chapter LVII: Athos's Vision.; Chapter LVIII: The Angel of Death.; Chapter LIX: The Bulletin.; Chapter LX: The Last Canto of the Poem.; Endnotes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-77556-781-8

OCLC:

493326938