The Vicomte de Bragelonne

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Read Books Ltd, 29 juin 2015 - 808 pages
This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas's historical novel, "The Vicomte of Bragelonne". The first installment of the final episode in the epic d'Artagnan Romances, it tells the story of d'Artagnan's attempt to help the exiled Charles II take back the throne of England. Unbeknownst to him, Athos is trying to achieve the same thing. A thrilling tale of adventure and daring-do, "The Vicomte of Bragelonne" is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Dumas's seminal work. Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was a famous French writer. He is best remembered for his exciting romantic sagas, including "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo". Despite making a great deal of money from his writing, Dumas was almost perpetually penniless thanks to his lavish lifestyle. His novels have been translated into nearly a hundred different languages, and have inspired over 200 motion pictures. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing this antiquarian book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
 

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The Proscribed
Remember
In which Aramis is sought and only Bazin is found
In which DArtagnan seeks Porthos and only finds Mousqueton
What DArtagnan went to Paris
Of the Society which was formed in the Rue des Lombards
In which DArtagnan prepares to travel
DArtagnan travels for the House of Planchet and Company

What his Majesty King Louis XIV was at the Age of TwentyTwo
In which the Unknown of the Hostelry of Les Medici loses his Incognito
The Arithmetic of M de Mazarin
Mazarins Policy
The King and the Lieutenant
Mary de Mancini
In which the King and the Lieutenant each give Proofs of Memory
In which the Author is forced to write a Little History
The Treasure
The Marsh
Heart and Mind
The Next
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À propos de l'auteur (2015)

After an idle youth, Alexandre Dumas went to Paris and spent some years writing. A volume of short stories and some farces were his only productions until 1927, when his play Henri III (1829) became a success and made him famous. It was as a storyteller rather than a playwright, however, that Dumas gained enduring success. Perhaps the most broadly popular of French romantic novelists, Dumas published some 1,200 volumes during his lifetime. These were not all written by him, however, but were the works of a body of collaborators known as "Dumas & Co." Some of his best works were plagiarized. For example, The Three Musketeers (1844) was taken from the Memoirs of Artagnan by an eighteenth-century writer, and The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) from Penchet's A Diamond and a Vengeance. At the end of his life, drained of money and sapped by his work, Dumas left Paris and went to live at his son's villa, where he remained until his death.

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