Cover
Contents
Introduction
Chapter I. The Prisoner
Chapter II. How Mouston Had Become Fatter
Chapter III. Who Messire Jean Percerin Was
Chapter IV. The Patterns
Chapter V. Where, Probably, Moliere Obtained His First Idea of the Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Chapter VI. The Bee-Hive, the Bees, and the Honey
Chapter VII. Another Supper at the Bastile
Chapter VIII. The General of the Order
Chapter IX. The Tempter
Chapter X. Crown and Tiara
Chapter XI. The Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte
Chapter XII. The Wine of Melun
Chapter XIII. Nectar and Ambrosia
Chapter XIV. A Gascon, and a Gascon and a Half
Chapter XV. Colbert
Chapter XVI. Jealousy
Chapter XVII. High Treason
Chapter XVIII. A Night at the Bastile
Chapter XIX. The Shadow of M. Fouquet
Chapter XX. The Morning
Chapter XXI. The King’s Friend
Chapter XXII. Showing How the Countersign Was Respected at the Bastile
Chapter XXIII. The King’s Gratitude
Chapter XXIV. The False King
Chapter XXV. In Which Porthos Thinks He Is Pursuing a Duchy
Chapter XXVI. The Last Adieux
Chapter XXVII. Monsieur de Beaufort
Chapter XXVIII. Preparations for Departure
Chapter XXIX. Planchet’s Inventory
Chapter XXX. The Inventory of M. de Beaufort
Chapter XXXI. The Silver Dish
Chapter XXXII. Captive and Jailers
Chapter XXXIII. Promises
Chapter XXXIV. Among Women
Chapter XXXV. The Last Supper
Chapter XXXVI. In M. Colbert’s Carriage
Chapter XXXVII. The Two Lighters
Chapter XXXVIII. Friendly Advice
Chapter XXXIX. How the King, Louis XIV., Played His Little Part
Chapter XL: The White Horse and the Black
Chapter XLI. In Which the Squirrel Falls,?the Adder Flies
Chapter XLII. Belle-Ile-en-Mer
Chapter XLIII. Explanations by Aramis
Chapter XLIV. Result of the Ideas of the King, and the Ideas of D’Artagnan
Chapter XLV. The Ancestors of Porthos
Chapter XLVI. The Son of Biscarrat
Chapter XLVII. The Grotto of Locmaria
Chapter XLVIII. The Grotto
Chapter XLIX. An Homeric Song
Chapter L: The Death of a Titan
Chapter LI. Porthos’s Epitaph
Chapter LII. M. de Gesvres’s Round
Chapter LIII. King Louis XIV
Chapter LIV. M. Fouquet’s Friends
Chapter LV. Porthos’s Will
Chapter LVI. The Old Age of Athos
Chapter LVII. Athos’s Vision
Chapter LVIII. The Angel of Death
Chapter LIX. The Bulletin
Chapter LX. The Last Canto of the Poem
Epilogue
Footnotes