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| Genre/Form: | Adventure fiction., Historical fiction. |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alexandre Dumas; Jacques Georges Clemenceau Le Clercq |
| ISBN: | 0679603328 9780679603320 |
| OCLC Number: | 41452740 |
| Description: | xxi, 598 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction/Jacques Le Clercq -- Author's preface: Wherein it is proved that despite their names ending in-os and-is, the heroes of the story we are about to relate have nothing mythological about them -- Three gifts of monsieur d'Artagnan the elder -- Antechamber of monsieur de Treville -- Audience -- Athos and his shoulder, of Porthos and his baldric, and of aramis and his handkerchief -- His majesty's musketeers and the cardinal's guards -- His majesty king Louis Xlll -- Home life of the musketeers -- Concerning a court intrigue -- D'Artagnan to the fore -- Concerning a mousetrap in the seventeenth century -- In which the plot thickens -- George Villiers, duke of Buckingham -- Monsieur Bonacieux -- Man of Meung -- Men of law and men of the sword -- Wherein monsieur Pierre Seguier, chancellor of France and keeper of the seals, looks more than once for a bell to ring as lustily as he was wont to do of yore -- Monsieur Bonacieux and his lady -- Lover and husband -- Plan of campaign -- journey -- Lady Clark -- In which their majesties dance la Merlaison, a favorite ballet of the king's -- Rendezvous -- Lodge -- What happened to Porthos -- Aramis and his thesis -- Athos and his wife -- Return -- Of the hunt for campaign outfits -- Milady -- Englishmen and Frenchmen -- Dinner at the house of an attorney-at-law -- Soubrette and her mistress -- Concerning the respective outfits of Aramis and Porthos -- At night all cats are gray -- Drea ms of vengeance -- Milady's secret -- How Athos without lifting a finger procured his equipment for the campaign -- Vision -- Wherein d'Artagnan meets his eminence and milady speeds him off to war -- Siege of la Rochelle -- Anjou wine and its salubrious virtues -- At the sign of the red dovecote utility of stovepipes -- Husband and wife -- Bastion Saint-Bervais -- Council of the musketeers -- Family affair -- Fatality -- Intimate -- Conversation between brother and sister -- Officer out on a stroll -- Captivity: First day -- Captivity: Second day -- Captivity: Third day -- Captivity: Fourth day -- Captivity: Fifth day -- How milady employed the technique of classical tragedy to prepare a modern one -- Escape That occurred at Portsmouth on august 23, 1628 -- What was happening in France -- What occurred at the convent of the Carmelite nuns in Bethune -- Two varieties of demons -- Wine and water -- Man in the red cloak -- Day of judgment -- How judgment was accomplished -- Cardinal, his agent and a lieutenant's commission -- Epilogue. |
| Other Titles: | Trois mousquetaires. |
| Responsibility: | Alexandre Dumas ; translated by Jacques Le Clercq. |
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