The Man in the Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Dumas

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781504033824
• Subtopic: Classics

A revolutionary plot hinges on the identity of a masked prisoner in the iconic final chapter in the adventures of d'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers.
In the darkest depths of the Bastille, a man has been robbed of his freedom and identity, denied any knowledge of the nature of his crimes. Only a handful of people, including the corrupt King Louis XIV and his mother, Queen Anne, know who the prisoner is and why he has been locked away. But the secret of the man in the iron mask is about to be revealed.
 
Long after d'Artagnan first journeyed to Paris to join the elite guardsmen known as the Musketeers, he remains in the service of the crown. His fellow swordsmen Athos, Aramis, and Porthos have long since moved on, but their paths will cross once again when the king is kidnapped and the mysterious prisoner disappears. To save France, d'Artagnan must uncover the connection between the two events and decide where his true loyalties lie—with the monarchy, or his old friends?
 
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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Chapter I. The Prisoner.
• Chapter II. How Mouston Had Become Fatter without Giving Porthos Notice Thereof, and of the Troubles Which Consequently Befell that Worthy Gentleman.
• Chapter III. Who Messire Jean Percerin Was.
• Chapter IV. The Patterns.
• Chapter V. Where, Probably, Molière 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 Château 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.
• Copyright