The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas, Pere
Title: The Three Musketeers
Author: Alexandre Dumas, Pere
Release Date: August 12, 2008 [EBook #1257] Last Updated: March 30, 2011
Language: English
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*** THE THREE MUSKETEERS ***
Produced by John P. Roberts III, Roger Labbe, Scott David
Gray, Sue Asscher, Anita Martin, and David Widger
THE THREE MUSKETEERS Alexandre Dumas [Pere]
THE PROJECT EDITOR'S NOTE TO THE PG D'ARTAGNAN SERIES LINKED INDEX OF PROJECT VOLUMES:
ORDER TITLE PG ETEXT# DATES VOLUME CHAPTERS
1 The Three Musketeers 1257 1625-1628 1
2 Twenty Years After 1259 1648-1649 2
3 The Vicomte de Bragelonne 2609 1660 3 1-75
4 Ten Years Later 2681 1660-1661 3 76-140
5 Louise de la Valliere 2710 1661 3 141-208
6 The Man in the Iron Mask 2759 1661-1673 3 209-269 [Project Etext 1258 listed below, is of the same
title as etext 2681 and its contents overlap those of two other volumes: it includes all the chapters of etext 2609 and the first 28 chapters of 2681]
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Ten Years Later 1258 1660-1661 3 1-104
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Contents
THE THREE MUSKETEERS AUTHOR'S PREFACE
1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
3 THE AUDIENCE
4 THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS
5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS
6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
7 THE INTERIOR OF "THE MUSKETEERS"
8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
9 D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF
10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
12 GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX
14 THE MAN OF MEUNG
15 MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD
16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
17 BONACIEUX AT HOME
18 LOVER AND HUSBAND
19 PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
20 THE JOURNEY
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21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER
22 THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON
23 THE RENDEZVOUS
24 THE PAVILION
25 PORTHOS
26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS
28 THE RETURN
29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN
31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH
32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
34 IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF
35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID
36 DREAM OF VENGEANCE
37 MILADY'S SECRET
38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMODING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT
39 A VISION
40 A TERRIBLE VISION
41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
42 THE ANJOU WINE
43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT
44 THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES
45 A CONJUGAL SCENE
46 THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS
47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
48 A FAMILY AFFAIR
49 FATALITY
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50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER
51 OFFICER
52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY
53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY
54 CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY
55 CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY
56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
57 MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY
58 ESCAPE
59 WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH AUGUST 23, 1628
60 IN FRANCE
61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE
62 TWO VARIETIES OF DEMONS
63 THE DROP OF WATER
64 THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK
65 TRIAL
66 EXECUTION
67 CONCLUSION EPILOGUE
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names' ending in OS and IS, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them.
A short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my History of Louis XIV, I stumbled by chance upon the Memoirs of M. d'Artagnan, printed--as were most of the works of that period, in which authors could not tell the truth without the risk of a residence, more or less long, in the Bastille--at Amsterdam, by Pierre Rouge. The title attracted me; I took them home with me, with the permission of the guardian, and devoured them.
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It is not my intention here to enter into an analysis of this curious work; and I shall satisfy myself with referring such of my readers as appreciate the pictures of the period to its pages. They will therein find portraits penciled by the hand of a master; and although these squibs may be, for the most part, traced upon the doors of barracks and the walls of cabarets, they will not find the likenesses of Louis XIII, Anne of Austria, Richelieu, Mazarin, and the courtiers of the period, less faithful than in the history of M. Anquetil.
But, it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers. Now, while admiring, as others doubtless will admire, the details we have to relate, our main preoccupation concerned a matter to which no one before ourselves had given a thought.
D'Artagnan relates that on his first visit to M. de Treville, captain of the king's Musketeers, he met in the antechamber three young men, serving in the illustrious corps into which he was soliciting the honor of being received, bearing the names of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.
We must confess these three strange names struck us; and it immediately occurred to us that they were but pseudonyms, under which d'Artagnan had disguised names perhaps illustrious, or else that the bearers of these borrowed names had themselves chosen them
on the day in which, from caprice, discontent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple Musketeer's uniform.
From the moment we had no rest till we could find some trace in contemporary works of these extraordinary names which had so
strongly awakened our curiosity.
The catalogue alone of the books we read with this object would fill a whole chapter,