Man in the Iron Mask (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

755 Pages·2009·2.96 MB·English

by  Alexandre Dumas

Table of Contents

From the Pages of The Man in the Iron Mask
Title Page
Copyright Page
Alexandre Dumas
The World of Alexandre Dumas and The Man in the Iron Mask
Introduction

Chapter 1 - Two Old Friends
Chapter 2 - Wherein May Be Seen That a Bargain Which Cannot Be Made With
One ...
Chapter 3 - The Skin of the Bear
Chapter 4 - An Interview with the Queen-Mother
Chapter 5 - Two Friends
Chapter 6 - How Jean de la Fontaine Wrote His First Tale
Chapter 7 - La Fontaine In the Character of a Negotiator
Chapter 8 - Madame de Belliere’s Plate and Diamonds
Chapter 9 - M. de Mazarin’s Receipt
Chapter 10 - Monsieur Colbert’s Rough Draft
Chapter 11 - In Which the Author Thinks It Is Now Time to Return to the
Vicomte ...
Chapter 12 - Bragelonne Continues His Inquiries
Chapter 13 - Two Jealousies
Chapter 14 - A Domiciliary Visit
Chapter 15 - Porthos’s Plan of Action
Chapter 16 - The Change of Residence, the Trap-Door, and the Portrait
Chapter 17 - Rival Politics
Chapter 18 - Rival Affections
Chapter 19 - King and Nobility
Chapter 20 - After the Storm
Chapter 21 - Heu! Miser!
Chapter 22 - Wounds Upon Wounds
Chapter 23 - What Raoul Had Guessed
Chapter 24 - Three Guests Astonished to Find Themselves at Supper Together
Chapter 25 - What Took Place at the Louvre During the Supper at the Bastille
Chapter 26 - Political Rivals
Chapter 27 - In Which Porthos Is Convinced Without Having Understood
Anything
Chapter 28 - M. de Baisemeaux’s “Society”
Chapter 29 - The Prisoner
Chapter 30 - How Mouston Had Become Fatter Without Giving Porthos Notice
...
Chapter 31 - Who Messire Jean Percerin Was
Chapter 32 - The Patterns
Chapter 33 - Where, Probably, Molière Formed His First Idea of the Bourgeois
Gentilhomme
Chapter 34 - The Beehive, the Bees, and the Honey
Chapter 35 - Another Supper at the Bastille
Chapter 36 - The General of the Order
Chapter 37 - The Tempter
Chapter 38 - Crown and Tiara
Chapter 39 - The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
Chapter 40 - The Wine of Mélun
Chapter 41 - Nectar and Ambrosia
Chapter 42 - A Gascon, and a Gascon and a Half
Chapter 43 - Colbert
Chapter 44 - Jealousy
Chapter 45 - High Treason
Chapter 46 - A Night at the Bastille
Chapter 47 - The Shadow of M. Fouquet
Chapter 48 - The Morning
Chapter 49 - The King’s Friend
Chapter 50 - Showing How the Countersign Was Respected at the Bastille
Chapter 51 - The King’s Gratitude
Chapter 52 - The False King
Chapter 53 - In Which Porthos Thinks He Is Pursuing a Duchy
Chapter 54 - The Last Adieux
Chapter 55 - Monsieur de Beaufort
Chapter 56 - Preparations for Departure
Chapter 57 - Planchet’s Inventory
Chapter 58 - The Inventory of M. de Beaufort
Chapter 59 - The Silver Dish
Chapter 60 - Captive and Jailers
Chapter 61 - Promises
Chapter 62 - Among Women
Chapter 63 - The Last Supper
Chapter 64 - In the Carriage of M. Colbert
Chapter 65 - The Two Lighters
Chapter 66 - Friendly Advice
Chapter 67 - How the King, Louis XIV, Played His Little Part
Chapter 68 - The White Horse and the Black Horse
Chapter 69 - In Which the Squirrel Falls—In Which the Adder Flies
Chapter 70 - Belle-Isle-En-Mer
Chapter 71 - The Explanations of Aramis
Chapter 72 - Result of the Ideas of the King, and the Ideas of d’Artagnan
Chapter 73 - The Ancestors of Porthos
Chapter 74 - The Son of Biscarrat
Chapter 75 - The Grotto of Locmaria
Chapter 76 - The Grotto
Chapter 77 - An Homeric Song
Chapter 78 - The Death of a Titan
Chapter 79 - The Epitaph of Porthos
Chapter 80 - The Round of M. de Gesvres
Chapter 81 - King Louis XIV
Chapter 82 - The Friends of M. Fouquet
Chapter 83 - Porthos’s Will
Chapter 84 - The Old Age of Athos
Chapter 85 - The Vision of Athos
Chapter 86 - The Angel of Death
Chapter 87 - The Bulletin
Chapter 88 - The Last Canto of the Poem

Epilogue
Endnotes
Inspired by The Man in the Iron Mask
Comments & Questions
For Further Reading
From the Pages of
The Man in the Iron Mask
“Being obliged to conceal myself, I was fortunate enough to meet with M.
d’Artagnan, who was formerly one of your friends, I believe ?”
(page 10)
The old coquette understood the trick that had been played her. She was standing
immediately before a large mirror, in which her decrepitude, so carefully
concealed, was only made more manifest. And, thereupon, without even saluting
Aramis, who bowed with the ease and grace of the musketeer of early days, she
hurried away with trembling steps, which her very precipitation only the more
impeded. Aramis sprang across the room, like a zephyr, to lead her to the door.
Madame de Chevreuse made a sign to her servant, who resumed his musket; and
she left the house where such tender friends had not been able to understand
each other, only because they had understood each other too well.
(page 22)
“I was wounded, attacked by fever; my senses were gone, and I have only a very
faint recollection of it all. But there is no reason why we should search very far,
when the very man we want is close at hand. Is not d’Artagnan your friend?”
(page 96)
“I, monseigneur, wish you to be a king for the good of humanity.”
(page 235)
“I shall have made one man happy; and Heaven for that will hold me in better
account than if I had made one man powerful; for that is far more difficult.”
(page 303)
“A friend’s word is the truth itself.”
(page 333)
“I would sooner, far sooner, have swallowed at one draught all the poisons that
Mithridates drank in twenty years, in order to try to avoid death, than have
betrayed my secret to the King.”
(page 402)
D’Artagnan seized a pistol and cocked it, hoping that the noise of the spring
would stop his enemy.
(page 554)
Contrary to what always happens, whether in politics or morals, each kept his
promise, and did honour to his engagements.
(page 706)

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The Vicomte de Bragelonne was first published in 1847. The present text of The Man in the
Iron Mask comprises the latter third of Dumas’s titanic narrative and follows
the standard translation, which remains anonymous.

Published in 2005 by Barnes & Noble Classics with new Introduction, Notes, Biography,
Chronology, Inspired By, Comments & Questions,
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Introduction, Notes, and For Further Reading
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The Man in the Iron Mask
ISBN-13: 978-1-59308-233-9
ISBN-10: 1-59308-233-9
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