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The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Vol. II by Alexandre Dumas, Fiction, Classics
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The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Vol. II by Alexandre Dumas, Fiction, Classics Paperback - 2002

by Alexandre Dumas

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The serial chronicles the adventures of D'Artagnan -- a young swordsman intent on joining the king's musketeers. Young D'Artagnan becomes embroiled in court intrigues, international politics, and ill-fated affairs between royal lovers. As this third serial begins, it is now 1660, and although promised the captaincy of the musketeers at the close of Twenty Years After, D'Artagnan is still trailing his sword in the Louvre as a lowly lieutenant. Louis XIV is well past the age where he should rule, but the ailing Cardinal Mazarin refuses to relinquish the reins of power. Meanwhile, Charles II, a king without a country, travels Europe seeking aid from his fellow monarchs. Athos still resides at La Fre while his son, Raoul de Bragelonne, has entered into the service in the household of M. le Prince. As for Raoul, he has his eyes on an entirely different object than his father -- his childhood companion, Louise de la Valliere, with whom he is hopelessly in love. Porthos, now a baron, is off on some mysterious mission along with Aramis, who is now the Bishop of Vannes. (Volume II of II.)

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TOWARDS the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o'clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois, a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the strollers of the river bank beyond a first movement of the hand to the head, as a salute, and a second movement of the tongue to express, in the purest French then spoken in France: 'There is Monsieur returning from hunting.'

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  • Title The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Vol. II by Alexandre Dumas, Fiction, Classics
  • Author Alexandre Dumas
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Borgo Press
  • Date November 1, 2002
  • ISBN 9781592248209 / 1592248209
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.04 x 0.71 in (23.11 x 15.34 x 1.80 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Used; Very Good. Previous owners stamp on page edges<br />In March 1844 the French magazine Le Siecle, printed the first installemnt of a story by Alexandre Dumas. It was based, Dumas claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. The serial chronicled the adventures of D Artagnan -- a young swordsman intent on joining the king s musketeers. Young D Artagnan becomes embroiled in court intrigues, international politics, and ill-fated affairs between royal lovers. As this third serial begins, it is now 1660, and although promised the captaincy of the musketeers at the close of Twenty Years After, D Artagnan is still trailing his sword in the Louvre as a lowly lieutenant. Louis XIV is well past the age where he should rule, but the ailing Cardinal Mazarin refuses to relinquish the reins of power. Meanwhile, Charles II, a king without a country, travels Europe seeking aid from his fellow monarchs.… Read More
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