The Vicomte de Bragelonne — Chronicle
Ordered by year where the text states one — taken as written, never inferred. This book has no continuous chronology, so nothing is carried forward: events with no stated year are listed at the end, in chapter order. Every event links back to one sentence of the original.
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311 events · 16 carry a year stated nearby in the text · the rest left undated
1643 (1 events)
Chapter 5 · 📍 [[Blois]] · in 1643
When he found himself about to die, which happened in 1643, just after the death of Louis XIII., he called to him his son, a young cook of great promise, and with tears in his eyes, he recommended him to preserve carefully the secret of the macaroni, to Frenchify his name, and at length, when the political horizon should be cleared from the clouds which obscured it—this was practiced then as in our day, to order of the nearest smith a handsome sign, upon which a famous painter, whom he named, should design two queens’ portraits, with these words as a legend: “TO THE MEDICI.”
1648 (1 events)
1650 (1 events)
Chapter 9 · 📍 [[Scone]] · in 1650
You know, sire, that being called in 1650 to Edinburgh, during Cromwell’s expedition into Ireland, I was crowned at Scone.
1651 (1 events)
Chapter 9 · 📍 [[Worcester]] · On the 3rd of September, 1651
On the 3rd of September, 1651, sire, the anniversary of the other battle of Dunbar, so fatal to the Scots, I was conquered.
1658 (1 events)
Chapter 9 · 📍 [[England]] · on the 3rd of September, 1658
Cromwell is dead, after having signed a treaty with France, in which his name is placed above yours.
1659 (1 events)
Chapter 9 · 📍 [[England]] · on the 22nd of April, 1659
Richard abdicated the protectorate on the 22nd of April, 1659, more than a year ago, sire.
1660 (10 events)
Chapter 1 · 📍 [[Castle of the States]]
The fair girl at length became quite angry; she tore the sheet of paper on which, in fact, the words “Monsieur Raoul” were written in good characters; and crushing the paper in her trembling hands, she threw it out of the window.
Chapter 1 · 📍 [[Castle of the States]]
Mademoiselle de la Vallière Raoul
I should have been very unhappy if your entreaties to obtain a remembrance of me had been less warm.
Chapter 1 · 📍 [[Castle of the States]]
Mademoiselle de la Vallière Raoul
You often think of me, you say, Monsieur Raoul: I thank you; but that does not surprise me, when I recollect how often our hearts have beaten close to each other.
Chapter 1 · 📍 [[Castle of the States]] · now
Raoul Mademoiselle de la Vallière Mademoiselle de Montalais
“Oh!—Raoul!” exclaimed Louise, who had made the same movement as her friend, and, becoming pale as death, sunk back beside her unfinished letter.
Chapter 32 · 📍 [[Dover]]
The king of England made his entree into Dover with great pomp, as he afterwards did in London.
Chapter 32 · 📍 [[the tavern of the Corne du Cerf]]
“Athos!” cried D’Artagnan, “you here!” And the two friends seized each other’s hands.
Chapter 32
I have ruined myself, my friend, ruined myself for the restoration of this young prince who has just passed, cantering on his isabelle colored horse.
Chapter 32 · 📍 [[Newcastle Abbey]]
Athos D’Artagnan Charles I Charles II
‘Remember there is a million buried in the vaults of Newcastle Abbey, and that that million belongs to my son.’
Chapter 32 · 📍 [[the palace of St. James]] · this evening, between nine and ten o’clock
His majesty will expect you this evening, at the palace of St. James, between nine and ten o’clock.
Chapter 32 · 📍 [[the palace of St. James’s]] · at nine o’clock
His gracious majesty appoints that hour for an audience he grants you.
Undated
Chapter 2 · 📍 [[Blois]]
MONSEIGNEUR—The king is about to set out for the frontiers. You are aware the marriage of his majesty is concluded upon. The king has done me the honor to appoint me his marechal-des-logis for this journey, and as I knew with what joy his majesty would pass a day at Blois, I venture to ask your royal highness’s permission to mark the house you inhabit as our quarters.
Chapter 2 · 📍 [[Blois]]
Monsieur,” said his royal highness in his turn, “you will offer my thanks to M. de Conde, and express to him my gratitude for the honor he has done me.
Chapter 3 · 📍 [[Blois]] · Perhaps this evening, mademoiselle; at latest, to-morrow.
Raoul Aure de Montalais Mademoiselle de la Vallière
Mademoiselle, it is no longer a secret; the king, on his way to Poitiers, will stop at Blois, to visit his royal highness.
Chapter 3
M. le Cardinal, on the contrary, had brought about the marriage of his majesty with the Infanta Maria Theresa.
Chapter 4 · after all the commotions of the Fronde
Louis de Conde had made a public, solemn and frank reconciliation with the court.
Chapter 4 · A year, then, had passed away since the separation of the father and son
M. de la Fere, with his invariable good sense, had immediately sent him again to the prince.
Chapter 4
The king is going to be married, as I had the honor of informing you in my last letter, and, on his way to Spain, he will pass through Blois.
Chapter 4 · 📍 [[Blois]] · on my return
Raoul Mademoiselle de la Vallière
Mademoiselle de la Vallière was there; it was only on my return, after I had performed my mission, that chance brought us together.
Chapter 4
Athos Raoul Mademoiselle de la Vallière
I had desired you to avoid Mademoiselle de la Vallière, and not to see her without my permission.
Chapter 5 · 📍 [[Blois]] · Towards the middle of the reign of Louis XIII.
Towards the middle of the reign of Louis XIII. only, an Italian named Cropoli, escaped from the kitchens of the Marechal d’Ancre, came and took possession of this house. There he established a little hostelry, in which was fabricated a macaroni so delicious that people came from miles round to fetch it or eat it.
Chapter 5 · 📍 [[castle of Blois]] · It was precisely on the day she had escaped by the famous window.
It was precisely on the day she had escaped by the famous window.
Chapter 5 · 📍 [[Blois]] · He then
He began by accustoming the public to sound the final i of his name so little, that by the aid of general complaisance, he was soon called nothing but M. Cropole, which is quite a French name.
Chapter 5 · 📍 [[Blois]] · He then
He then married, having had in his eye a little French girl, from whose parents he extorted a reasonable dowry by showing them what there was beneath the slab of the chimney.
Chapter 5 · 📍 [[Blois]] · As he grew old
As he grew old he attached himself to the son as he had done to the father, and by degrees became a kind of over-looker of a house in which his remarkable integrity, his acknowledged sobriety, and a thousand other virtues useless to enumerate, gave him an eternal place by the fireside, with a right of inspection over the domestics.
Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Blois]] · the day of the king’s arrival
if the court comes to sleep here, the charge of the day is reckoned. From that it results that three chambers, at two louis each, make six louis.
Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Blois]]
the unknown
convinced himself of the state of absolute destitution in which he was about to be plunged.
Chapter 8
Mazarin Mademoiselle de Mancini
I have a full and fixed intention to marry them, and that as well as I shall be able.
Chapter 8 · 📍 [[Brouage]]
Mary, as well as her sisters, has just set off for Brouage.
Chapter 9 · 📍 [[Blois]]
You will announce His Majesty Charles II., King of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Chapter 9 · 📍 [[Blois]] · within a month
For your assistance; that is to say, not only for that which kings owe to each other, but that which simple Christians owe to each other—your assistance, sire, either in money or men.
Chapter 9 · 📍 [[Blois]]
I will go and find the king of France—the other—the rich, the powerful one, I mean. I will myself solicit this million, or these two hundred gentlemen; and—we will see.
Chapter 11
your majesty is bound not to grant hospitality to King Charles, and to compel him to leave France even.
Chapter 11
Let my king, then, keep near him, or in one of his chateaux, the king of England; let Mazarin know it, but let not the minister know it.
Chapter 11
With all my heart, thanks!” replied he, “sire; but I have prayed without success to the greatest king on earth; now I will go and ask a miracle of God.
Chapter 12 · 📍 [[the little park-gate]] · to-morrow, at about half-past four in the morning
You will mount on horseback to-morrow, at about half-past four in the morning, and you will have a horse saddled for me.
Chapter 12
They say he threw himself at his mother’s feet, to beg her to allow him to marry her.
Chapter 13 · nearly six o’clock
Louis XIV Mademoiselle de Mancini
Well, the queen-mother wrote to the court of Rome, and received as answer, that a marriage between us would have no validity, and would be dissolved by the holy father. At length, finding there was no hope for us, I requested to have my marriage with the infanta at least delayed.
Chapter 13
Then I must bid you adieu forever,” said she. “You know that I am being exiled; you know that I am going to be buried alive; you know still more that they want to marry me off, too.
Chapter 13
Louis XIV Mademoiselle de Mancini
Mademoiselle de Mancini, quite indignant, quitted the king’s arm, hastily entered the carriage, crying to the coachman, “Go on, go on, and quick!”
Chapter 14
I was the favorite of M. de Mazarin. Lieutenant here! lieutenant there! lieutenant to the right! lieutenant to the left! There was not a buffet dealt in France, of which your humble servant did not have the dealing; but soon France was not enough. The cardinal sent me to England on Cromwell’s account; another gentleman who was not over gentle, I assure you, sire. I had the honor of knowing him, and I was well able to appreciate him. A great deal was promised me on account of that mission. So, as I did much more than I had been bidden to do, I was generously paid, for I was at length appointed captain of the musketeers;
Chapter 14 · as soon as peace was made
But M. de Mazarin, as you know better than anybody, does not often give, and sometimes takes back what he has given; he took it back again as soon as peace was made and he was no longer in want of me.
Chapter 14
It is very well, monsieur,” said Louis XIV., in a sharp voice; “you are desirous of having your discharge, and you shall have it. You offer me your resignation of the rank of lieutenant of the musketeers?” “I deposit it humbly at your majesty’s feet, sire.” “That is sufficient. I will order your pension.”
Chapter 15
Louis XIV Maria Theresa Mademoiselle de Mancini
This, however, would certainly have happened if I had made your niece my wife. I am perfectly aware of this, and will henceforth oppose nothing to the accomplishment of my destiny. I am prepared, then, to wed the infanta, Maria Theresa.
Chapter 15
It had nothing, however, very clear as a result, but to make a poor lieutenant of musketeers lose his commission and his fortune. It is true, that in exchange he gained his liberty.
Chapter 15 · 📍 [[Paris]]
The king mounted his horse; his old servant did the same, and both set out towards Paris, without meeting a single person on their road, in the streets or the faubourgs of the city.
Chapter 16 · 📍 [[Blois]]
I came to Blois to ask of my brother Louis the alms of a million, with which I had the hopes of re-establishing my affairs; and my brother Louis has refused me.
Chapter 16 · 📍 [[castle of Newcastle]]
‘I have still a million in gold,’ continued the king. ‘I buried it in the vaults of the castle of Newcastle, a moment before I left that city.’
Chapter 16 · 📍 [[castle of Newcastle]] · at this moment
but at this moment General Monk occupies it and is encamped there.
Chapter 16
“If it please your majesty,” said Athos, bowing to the king, “yes, I will go, sire.”
Chapter 16
“Sire,” said Athos, opening a casket, form which he drew both gold and jewels, “you see, sire, we are too rich.
Chapter 18 · 📍 [[Pierrefonds]] · the very same day
monseigneur set out the very same day with his secretary, in order to endeavor to arrive in time.
Chapter 18 · Lately
Lately, after having supped with one of our farmers—you know how popular and kind monseigneur is—after supper, as a joke, he struck the wall a blow. The wall crumbled away beneath his hand, the roof fell in, and three men and an old woman were stifled.
Chapter 19 · now
“I play the banker a little. I buy goods of my needy brethren; I lend money to those who are not ready for their payments.”
Chapter 20
D’Artagnan Charles II Planchet
I wish to replace upon his throne this King Charles II., who has no throne?
Chapter 20 · 📍 [[England]] · in a week
M. Monk is the ally of M. Mazarin—beware!
Chapter 21 · by morning
Thus fortified by his laborious calculations, D’Artagnan stopped at this plan, and determined to change nothing in it.
Chapter 21 · 📍 [[Paris]] · in less than thirty hours
A day and a half spent in rummaging amongst certain dens of Paris sufficed for his recruiting; and, without allowing his adventurers to communicate with each other, he had picked up and got together, in less than thirty hours, a charming collection of ill-looking faces
Chapter 21 · 📍 [[Bergues and Saint Omer]] · Six days were allowed as the utmost term
he appointed a trysting place in the north of France, between Bergues and Saint Omer. Six days were allowed as the utmost term
Chapter 21
Planchet paid down in double louis, twenty thousand livres to D’Artagnan, on the part of himself (Planchet), and twenty thousand livres, still in double louis, in account with D’Artagnan.
Chapter 21 · in case I should not return
D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis Raoul Planchet
I, D’Artagnan, possess twenty thousand livres, laid up cent per cent during thirty years that I have been in the service of his majesty the king of France. I leave five thousand to Athos, five thousand to Porthos, and five thousand to Aramis, that they may give the said sums in my name and their own to my young friend Raoul, Vicomte de Bragelonne. I give the remaining five thousand to Planchet, that he may distribute the fifteen thousand with less regret among my friends. With which purpose I sign these presents.—D’ARTAGNAN.
Chapter 21
As a beginning, D’Artagnan set out in the finest of possible weather, without a cloud in the heavens—without a cloud on his mind, joyous and strong, calm and decided
Chapter 22
I have engaged you from knowing you to be brave, and willing to associate you with me in a glorious enterprise.
Chapter 22
Our business is to learn and to report to monsieur le surintendant of the finances to what extent English smuggling is injurious to the French merchants.
Chapter 22
It was to these two, whom he seemed to honor with an absolute confidence, that D’Artagnan imparted a false secret, destined to secure the success of the expedition.
Chapter 22 · 📍 [[Holland]]
Charles II [[William II. of Nassau]]
He learned that the king of England had come back to his old ally, William II. of Nassau, stadtholder of Holland.
Chapter 22
He learned also that the refusal of Louis XIV. had a little cooled the protection afforded him up to that time
Chapter 22 · 📍 [[Scheveningen]]
he had gone to reside in a little village house at Scheveningen, situated in the downs, on the sea-shore, about a league from the Hague.
Chapter 22 · 📍 [[the Hague]] · A fortnight after all we have said had taken place at Calais
A fortnight after all we have said had taken place at Calais, the whole troop assembled at the Hague.
Chapter 22 · with the rising tide, at three o’clock in the morning
That very evening D’Artagnan hired for a thousand livres a fishing-boat worth four thousand.
Chapter 23 · 📍 [[Scotland]]
Monk had pacified Scotland, he had there formed for himself an army, and found an asylum.
Chapter 24
Athos Charles I Anne of Austria
“I am called the Comte de la Fere, monsieur,” said Athos, bowing.
Chapter 25 · 📍 [[Newcastle Abbey]]
He then struck, during several seconds, so skillfully and sharply upon the intermediary plaster, that it separated into two parts, and Monk was able to discern two barrels placed end to end, and which their weight maintained motionless in their chalky envelope.
Chapter 26
This gold is the property of King Charles II., exiled from his country, driven from his palaces
Chapter 27 · 📍 [[his house]]
Then they placed over Athos a guard of fifty men, who surrounded his house
Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Newcastle]]
And having taken him on the causeway of Newcastle, I bring him to your majesty,
Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Scheveningen]] · night
he is down below yonder, in a large chest pierced with holes, so as to allow him to breathe.
Chapter 29 · 📍 [[Scheveningen]]
Sire, here is your enemy, M. Monk; I promised myself to perform this service for your majesty.
Chapter 29 · 📍 [[Scheveningen]]
I know no king of Great Britain; I recognize even here no one worthy of bearing the name of gentleman
Chapter 29
you have revealed to me an unknown friend, to whom I shall ever be grateful, and whom I shall always love.
Chapter 29 · 📍 [[Scheveningen]]
Sir,” said the king to Monk, “you are free.
Chapter 29
Here is some money in account,” said D’Artagnan, putting into their hands a purse containing two thousand five hundred livres in gold. “Go and wait for me at Calais, you know where.
Chapter 31 · 📍 [[London]] · during the night
Lambert, perceiving that he had no longer the possibility of accepting battle, if it were offered to him, took the wise resolution of decamping during the night, returning to London
Chapter 31 · 📍 [[London]] · Suddenly, when least expected
Suddenly, when least expected, Monk drove the military party out of London, and installed himself in the city amidst the citizens, by order of the parliament;
Chapter 31 · 📍 [[London]] · at the moment when the citizens were crying out against Monk
Monk, finding himself certain of a majority, declared to the Rump Parliament that it must abdicate—be dissolved—and yield its place to a government which would not be a joke.
Chapter 31 · 📍 [[the Hague]] · At length
it was affirmed that a vessel had left the Hague, bearing King Charles II. and his fortunes.
Chapter 31 · 📍 [[Dover]] · in six weeks
Monk D’Artagnan Athos Charles II
I wrote these words: ‘Sire, I expect your majesty in six weeks at Dover.’
Chapter 33 · 📍 [[St. James’s]] · henceforward
Lately I commanded the principal army of the republic; now that army is the king’s
Chapter 33 · 📍 [[St. James’s]]
I have just signed your patent,—you are Duke of Albemarle; and my intention is that no one shall equal you in power and fortune in this kingdom
Chapter 33 · 📍 [[St. James’s]]
I should have the regret to refuse what your gracious majesty would offer me
Chapter 33 · 📍 [[St. James’s]] · henceforward
I make you viceroy of Ireland and Scotland, my dear duke
Chapter 33 · 📍 [[St. James’s]]
And going to the table, he took a pen and wrote an order upon his treasurer for three hundred thousand livres
Chapter 34 · as soon as the thing was suitable and opportune
He had then the satisfaction to exchange a piece of paper, covered with very ugly writing, for a prodigious number of crowns, recently stamped with the effigies of his very gracious majesty Charles II.
Chapter 34
Ah! Mordioux! that’s true,” cried D’Artagnan, coloring; “there is Planchet. I had forgotten Planchet, upon my life!
Chapter 34 · 📍 [[St. James’s]]
D’Artagnan Charles II Henrietta Stuart Duke of Buckingham
You will conduct the chevalier to Villiers; that is the Duke of Buckingham, chevalier; and beg the duke to introduce M. d’Artagnan to the Princess Henrietta.
Chapter 34 · 📍 [[France]]
but for that of an ambassador I am about sending to France, and to whom you will willingly serve as a companion, I fancy, for you know him.
Chapter 35
Charles II D’Artagnan Henrietta Stuart Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
the king, your brother, desires me to have the honor of presenting to your royal highness, Monsieur le Chevalier d’Artagnan.
Chapter 35
Charles II D’Artagnan Henrietta Stuart Parry
the king desires you to preserve religiously in your memory the name and merit of M. d’Artagnan, to whom his majesty owes, he says, the recovery of his kingdom.
Chapter 35
Villiers, Duke of Buckingham D’Artagnan
it is you, then—you whom my father sought everywhere and who had a right to expect so much from us.
Chapter 35
the young princess, who gave him her hand to kiss with a right royal grace.
Chapter 37 · that evening
The prudent Monk—others would say the generous Monk—had commuted the donation into a sale, and acknowledged the receipt of the sum of fifteen thousand crowns as the price of the property ceded.
Chapter 37 · 📍 [[Gravesend]] · at midnight
At midnight the yacht had deposited its passengers on board the vessel
Chapter 37
The king being restored, I restored to Monk his man of business, a little plucked, it is true, but, in short, I restored him.
Chapter 37
He found it all right, gave fifty of those splendid crowns to each man
Chapter 37
These fifty crowns which I give you above the rest will prove the esteem I have for you. Take them.
Chapter 37
Then listen; at the smallest word that shall escape you, I will kill you as I would a fowl.
Chapter 38 · 📍 [[Pilon d’Or]] · Nine o’clock was striking at Saint-Merri
Why, the English bags, Mordioux!” said D’Artagnan, all radiant, quite transfigured.
Chapter 38 · 📍 [[Pilon d’Or]]
Mordioux!” said D’Artagnan, “there are a hundred thousand livres for you, partner. Draw your share, if you please, and I will draw mine.”
Chapter 39 · 📍 [[Dover]] · By this time
it is even known that the king has landed at Dover; some fishermen saw him entering the port; the rest is still a mystery.
Chapter 39 · 📍 [[Palais Royal]] · suddenly
Bernouin, entering from behind the tapestry of the bedroom, whispered in the ear of Mazarin, “Monseigneur, an envoy from his majesty, the king of England.”
Chapter 40
the happy restoration of his majesty Charles II. to the throne of his ancestors.
Chapter 40
Charles II. immediately transmitted it to me, filling up the blank with my name.
Chapter 40
I have the honor of presenting to your majesty, Monsieur le Comte de la Fere, ambassador from his Britannic majesty.
Chapter 40
Nevertheless, always master of himself, he held out the dispatch to the young king, Louis XIV., who took it with a blush.
Chapter 40
Charles II Philip, Duc d’Anjou Mademoiselle Henrietta
This gentleman is the bearer of a letter in which King Charles II., completely restored to his throne, demands an alliance between Monsieur, the brother of the king, and Mademoiselle Henrietta, grand-daughter of Henry IV.
Chapter 41
The combinations of these two ideas brought about such a change in the position of M. Monk, that, from an inveterate enemy, he became a friend to the deposed king.
Chapter 41
The king gave back his freedom to Monk, and the grateful general, in return, gave Charles II. the throne of Great Britain, for which so many valiant men had fought in vain.
Chapter 41
This French gentleman, then, formed the idea of gaining possession of the person of Monk, and he executed his plan.
Chapter 41 · 📍 [[Newcastle]]
That one of my gentlemen knew the secret of the million, and kept it? “Yes, sire.” “The name of that gentleman?” “It was your humble servant,” said Athos, simply, and bowing.
Chapter 41 · to-morrow
Philip, Duc d’Anjou D’Artagnan
Monsieur, brother of the king, will to-morrow drink his health before five hundred of the best gentlemen of France.
Chapter 41
Athos Henrietta Stuart Philip, Duc d’Anjou
Athos immediately began and offered in due form the hand of the Princess Henrietta Stuart to the young prince, the king’s brother.
Chapter 42
“Those fifty thousand crowns; yes, monseigneur, they are yours.”
Chapter 42
Philip, Duc d’Anjou Charles II
“Eh! yes, I am going to be married,” replied the Duc d’Anjou.
Chapter 42
Prince de Conde Athos Philip, Duc d’Anjou Charles II
“He is to marry the sister of Charles II.?” “I believe so.”
Chapter 44
Colbert Michel Letellier Colbert, Seigneur de Saint-Penange
Colbert, placed with Michel Letellier, secretary of state in 1648, by his cousin Colbert, Seigneur de Saint-Penange, who protected him, received one day from the minister a commission for Cardinal Mazarin.
Chapter 44 · 📍 [[Sedan]]
Colbert Mazarin Michel Letellier Anne of Austria
Colbert was commanded to set out for Sedan, with positive orders to carry the letter to Mazarin, and bring it back to Letellier.
Chapter 44
Mazarin Colbert Anne of Austria
Mazarin could hold out no longer, and was obliged to give it up.
Chapter 49 · About four o’clock
That monsieur le cardinal has just expired, sire; and that I bring your majesty his last adieu.
Chapter 50 · 📍 [[Louvre]] · to-morrow the first thing in the morning
Let him be found, and be here to-morrow the first thing in the morning.
Chapter 51
Athos Raoul Mademoiselle de la Vallière
“Besides, I will not refuse my consent after what you have told me. Marry Mademoiselle de la Vallière, if you like.”
Chapter 52 · 📍 [[Vincennes]] · the next day
Raoul was returning the next day from Vincennes at the head of fifty dragoons confided to him by Monsieur le Prince
Chapter 52 · 📍 [[England]]
a very worthy friend of mine, a great nobleman, the viceroy of Scotland and Ireland, has endowed me with an inheritance.
Chapter 52 · 📍 [[Louvre]]
His majesty is very anxious to speak to you, and expects you at the Louvre.
Chapter 53 · 📍 [[Louvre]]
Louis XIV Philip, Duc d’Anjou Henrietta Stuart Charles II
I must expedite to London my consent to the marriage of my brother, M. le Duc d’Anjou, with the Princess Henrietta Stuart.
Chapter 53 · 📍 [[Louvre]]
You will be satisfied with it? That is well. It will be better to reckon the extra expenses separately; you can arrange that with Colbert.
Chapter 53 · 📍 [[Louvre]]
Well, here is your commission signed. I place it in this drawer.
Chapter 53 · 📍 [[Louvre]]
And then you will travel slowly through Bretagne, and will examine the fortifications of that country.
Chapter 53 · 📍 [[Louvre]] · to-morrow
You will begin to-morrow by going to monsieur le surintendant’s to take the first quarter of the pension I give you.
Chapter 54 · 📍 [[Saint-Mande]] · this morning
Marguerite Vanel Marquise de Belliere Fouquet Colbert
‘See him yourself,’ said she, ‘and tell him to beware of M. Colbert.’
Chapter 54 · 📍 [[Saint-Mande]]
Colbert D’Eymeris Lyodot Fouquet Marquise de Belliere
“Names of the farmers of revenue to be condemned by the Chamber of Justice: D’Eymeris, friend of M. F.; Lyodot, friend of M. F.; De Vanin, indif.”
Chapter 55 · this evening
“Very well,” said Fouquet, “give the account to Gourville, and remain here this evening.”
Chapter 56 · 📍 [[Saint-Mande]]
So be it,” said Fouquet, with angry eyes;—“yes, yes, to Saint-Mande!”
Chapter 59 · 📍 [[Madame de Plessis-Belliere's hotel]]
Fouquet Madame de Plessis-Belliere
I love you in reality, as a tender friend; and as a friend, I am grateful for your delicate attentions—but, alas!—alas! you will never find a mistress in me.
Chapter 59 · 📍 [[M. Colbert’s]] · soon after monseigneur came in
“To M. Colbert’s!” said Pelisson, in a hoarse voice.
Chapter 59 · 📍 [[Saint-Mande]] · within an hour
You, Pelisson, return to Saint-Mande, and bring the Abbe Fouquet to me within an hour.
Chapter 60 · 📍 [[Vincennes]] · to-morrow, at two o’clock precisely
Then get your hundred and twenty men together, abbe.
Chapter 60 · 📍 [[Place de Greve]] · to-morrow
Fouquet Abbe Fouquet Lyodot D’Eymeris
What I told you—I wish that, to-morrow, the two financiers of whom they mean to make victims, whilst there remain so many criminals unpunished, should be snatched from the fury of my enemies.
Chapter 60 · 📍 [[Place Baudoyer]]
Fouquet Abbe Fouquet Lyodot D’Eymeris
Enter by the cabaret, take the prisoners in; defend the door while you enable them to fly by the garden and the Place Baudoyer.
Chapter 60 · 📍 [[Place de Greve]] · to-morrow
My men shall cry out, ‘Colbert, vive Colbert!’ and shall throw themselves upon the prisoners as if they would tear them in pieces, and shall force them from the gibbets, as too mild a punishment.
Chapter 61 · at break of day
“My departure is to be,” said he, “at break of day, three o’clock in the morning
Chapter 61
murmured in his ear—“An affair of state,” to which Athos only replied by a pressure of the hand
Chapter 61 · 📍 [[Place de Greve]] · the next day
two farmers of the revenues, monopolists of money, dilapidators of the royal provisions, extortioners, and forgers, were about to undergo capital punishment on the Place de Greve
Chapter 61 · 📍 [[Image-de-Notre-Dame]]
four of these men came down into the court, and without the appearance of any bad design, mounted guard at the door of communication, casting, at intervals, glances at D’Artagnan
Chapter 62 · 📍 [[Image-de-Notre-Dame]]
The condemned had been torn from the hands of the guards, and were being dragged towards the house of L’Image-de-Notre-Dame.
Chapter 62 · 📍 [[Image-de-Notre-Dame]]
Menneville was at the head of this group, shouting louder than all the others, “To the fire! to the fire! Vive Colbert!”
Chapter 62 · 📍 [[Image-de-Notre-Dame]]
Raoul, seizing him by the middle, threw him out of the window, whilst D’Artagnan pushed his man down the stairs.
Chapter 62 · 📍 [[Image-de-Notre-Dame]]
D’Artagnan had struck up Menneville’s arm with the hilt of his sword and passed the blade through his body.
Chapter 62 · 📍 [[Image-de-Notre-Dame]]
The two condemned are again in the hands of the archers.
Chapter 62 · 📍 [[Image-de-Notre-Dame]]
The fire has been extinguished with two tuns of wine in default of water.
Chapter 63 · 📍 [[Greve]]
Instead of being burnt, yes, monsieur, and I am proud of it.
Chapter 63
leaving in the hands of the musketeer the ring and the twenty thousand livres.
Chapter 64
I thought it would be easy for you to announce to his majesty that it was I who, being there by chance, did justice upon Menneville and restored order to things.
Chapter 64 · 📍 [[Rue Neuve des Petits-Champs]]
Menneville belonged to the Abbe Fouquet—the affair originated with Fouquet; does not everybody know that the condemned were his friends from childhood?
Chapter 64 · 📍 [[Rue Neuve des Petits-Champs]]
The sum-total! M. Fouquet has given you twenty thousand livres instead of five thousand?
Chapter 64 · 📍 [[Rue Neuve des Petits-Champs]]
Not a sou. I have always understood that in matters of comptabilite, as you call it, a good cashier never gives back or takes back.
Chapter 64 · 📍 [[Rue Neuve des Petits-Champs]]
And he crumpled up the paper he had so cleverly seized.
Chapter 65 · 📍 [[Bretagne]] · The day came
then, having saddled his horse, shut the stable and house doors, he set off, at a foot-pace, on his expedition to Bretagne.
Chapter 65 · The day came
D’Artagnan thus sent back the order to Fouquet, without compromising himself, and without having thenceforward any reproaches to make himself.
Chapter 66
Knowing all that, and holding my tongue, what further would this heart wish in return for a kind action of M. Fouquet’s, for an advance of fifteen thousand livres, for a diamond worth a thousand pistoles, for a smile in which there was as much bitterness as kindness?—I save his life.
Chapter 66 · 📍 [[Chateaubriand]] · from the moment he crossed this new steed
So, instead of D’Artagnan, I will be Agnan, short, that is a concession which I naturally owe to my gray coat, my round hat, and my rusty calotte.
Chapter 67 · 📍 [[La Roche-Bernard]]
under which stood the poet’s little cart, and poked the point of his poniard into the stuff which enveloped one of the packages, which he found full of types, like those which the poet had in his pocket.
Chapter 68 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
Why, yes, monsieur, M. Fouquet has the walls of the castle repaired every year.
Chapter 68 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
Well, I mean that M. Fouquet is having two corsairs built to chase the Dutch and the English
Chapter 68 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
There are seventeen hundred men in Belle-Isle, monsieur
Chapter 69 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
“Porthos!” murmured D’Artagnan, seized with stupor, “Porthos at Belle-Isle!”
Chapter 69 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
On his part, the man with the feathers fixed his eyes upon the disguised lieutenant, and, in spite of his metamorphosis, recognized him.
Chapter 69 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
Nevertheless the first movement of the two men was to throw their arms around each other.
Chapter 69 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
“But I left no traces behind me, for I came here disguised,” said Porthos.
Chapter 70 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
the fortifications, which are my department alone; do you understand? mine, absolutely mine.
Chapter 71 · 📍 [[episcopal palace]] · Ten minutes after the two friends had passed the threshold of the palace
Aramis returned like a triumphant conqueror; the soldiers presented arms to him as to a superior; the citizens bowed to him as to a friend and a patron
Chapter 72 · the same day
D’Artagnan Louis XIV Mademoiselle de Mancini
“That’s true,” said D’Artagnan. “And you know that, do you? Well, then, you must know that the same day I gave in my resignation!”
Chapter 72 · 📍 [[England]]
Yes, I understand; and then you executed alone, wonderful man as you are, what you wanted to propose to us all four. I suspected you had something to do with that famous restoration, when I learned that you had been seen at King Charles’s receptions, and that he appeared to treat you like a friend, or rather like a person to whom he was under an obligation.
Chapter 73 · about seven o’clock
“Porthos is gone out to give us a surprise.”
Chapter 73 · 📍 [[episcopal palace]]
“Oh, yes,” continued he, at the first line, “yes, I understand;”
Chapter 74
although he did bring about the death of our dear friends, Lyodot and D’Eymeris.
Chapter 74 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
D’Artagnan has been to Belle-Isle; he was disguised; he came in the character of some sort of an intendant, charged by his master to purchase salt-mines.
Chapter 74 · 📍 [[Saint-Mande]] · Five minutes after
Five minutes after, the superintendent was flying along the road to Paris.