num_pages: 452
description: In March 1844 the French magazine Le Siecle, printed the first installemnt of a story by Alexandre Dumas. It was based, Dumas claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. The serial chronicled the adventures of D'Artagnan -- a young swordsman intent on joining the king's musketeers. Young D'Artagnan becomes embroiled in court intrigues, international politics, and ill-fated affairs between royal lovers. As this third serial begins, it is now 1660, and although promised the captaincy of the musketeers at the close of _Twenty Years After,_ D'Artagnan is still trailing his sword in the Louvre as a lowly lieutenant. Louis XIV is well past the age where he should rule, but the ailing Cardinal Mazarin refuses to relinquish the reins of power. Meanwhile, Charles II, a king without a country, travels Europe seeking aid from his fellow monarchs. Athos still resides at La Fère while his son, Raoul de Bragelonne, has entered into the service in the household of M. le Prince. As for Raoul, he has his eyes on an entirely different object than his father -- his childhood companion, Louise de la Vallière, with whom he is hopelessly in love. Porthos, now a baron, is off on some mysterious mission along with Aramis, who is now the Bishop of Vannes. (Jacketless library hardcover.)
language: English
title: The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, Fiction, Classics
titlecomplete: The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, Fiction, Classics
characters: Aramis, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV of France, Athos, Porthos, Henrietta Anne Stuart, duchess d'Orléans, Nicolas Fouquet, Louise de La Vallière, Raoul de Bragelonne, The Man in The Iron Mask, Philippe de France, duke of Orléans, Anne of Austria, D'Artagnan, Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, French Literature, Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, Adventure, Fiction, 19th Century, France
ratings_count: 7994
places: England, Bastille, Paris, Fontainebleau, France
series: The d’Artagnan Romances
publisher: Borgo Pr