Vicomte De Bragelonne, or Ten Years Later
Publisher: Arden Library
Published: June 1981
Format: Textbook Binding
ISBN-13: 9780849511295
First sentence: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660 , at nine o'clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the passengers of the quay beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to express, in the purest French then spoken in France: "There is Monsieur returning from hunting."