The Vicomte de Bragelonne

In 1660, years after The Three Musketeers, d'Artagnan, still a lieutenant of the King's Musketeers, is tired of serving a young Louis XIV dominated by Cardinal Mazarin. Hearing that the exiled Charles II of England needs help to regain his throne, he sets off on a daring private adventure, while his friend Athos's son, Raoul, the Vicomte de Bragelonne, a noble, loyal young man, loves the gentle Louise de la Vallière. This volume contains the first seventy-five chapters of the vast novel.

Alexandre Dumas published the final part of the d'Artagnan trilogy between 1847 and 1850, and its later volumes include the story of the Man in the Iron Mask. Read The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After.

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) was the grandson of a French nobleman and an enslaved woman of African descent in Saint-Domingue; his father became a general of the Revolution. Arriving in Paris as a clerk with little education, Dumas made his name in the theatre and then, with the collaborator Auguste Maquet, turned history into the most popular adventure novels of the century.

The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo were followed by dozens more, earning fortunes that Dumas spent as fast as they came, on travel, newspapers and a fantastic château. In 2002 his remains were moved to the Panthéon in Paris among the great figures of France.