The Three Musketeers — 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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392 events · 54 carry a year stated nearby in the text · the rest left undated
1625 (6 events)
Chapter 1
M. d’Artagnan the elder D’Artagnan
I have nothing to give you, my son, but fifteen crowns, my horse, and the counsels you have just heard.
Chapter 1 · The same day
M. d’Artagnan the elder D’Artagnan
The same day the young man set forward on his journey, furnished with the three paternal gifts
Chapter 1 · 📍 [[Jolly Miller]] · On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625
Another blow full upon his forehead at the same moment brought him to the ground, covered with blood and almost fainting.
Chapter 1 · 📍 [[England]]
To return instantly to England, and to inform him as soon as the duke leaves London.
Chapter 1 · 📍 [[Paris]] · On the following morning at five o’clock
D’Artagnan walked about that same evening, and was almost cured by the morrow.
1627 (22 events)
Chapter 41 · 📍 [[Isle of Ré]]
Arriving unexpectedly in sight of the Isle of Ré with ninety vessels and nearly twenty thousand men, he had surprised the Comte de Toiras, who commanded for the king in the Isle, and he had, after a bloody conflict, effected his landing.
Chapter 41 · 📍 [[Isle of Ré]]
Baron de Chantal Mme. de Sévigné
Allow us to observe in passing that in this fight perished the Baron de Chantal; that the Baron de Chantal left a little orphan girl eighteen months old, and that this little girl was afterward Mme. de Sévigné.
Chapter 41 · 📍 [[Villeroy]] · on the twenty-eighth of June
Louis XIII D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
his illness becoming more serious, he was forced to stop at Villeroy.
Chapter 41 · 📍 [[village of Angoutin]] · the day was beginning to decline
It might be a vengeance of Milady; that was most probable.
Chapter 41 · 📍 [[La Rochelle]] · At nine o’clock the next morning
D’Artagnan Duc d’Orléans M. Dessessart
As to the man to be depended upon, I have him under my hand, monsieur,” said M. Dessessart, pointing to D’Artagnan
Chapter 41 · 📍 [[La Rochelle]]
They knew all they wished to know; the bastion was guarded.
Chapter 41 · 📍 [[La Rochelle]]
“A woman whom I don’t know, but who is called Milady.”
Chapter 41 · 📍 [[La Rochelle]]
D’Artagnan Mme. Bonacieux Milady
Since you have lost sight of that woman and she is now in safety in the convent
Chapter 45 · this evening
Milady Richelieu Buckingham D’Artagnan
In short, it was you who have but now in this chamber, seated in this chair I now fill, made an engagement with Cardinal Richelieu to cause the Duke of Buckingham to be assassinated, in exchange for the promise he has made you to allow you to assassinate D’Artagnan.
Chapter 45 · 📍 [[Fort La Pointe]] · at seven o’clock
In consequence, after having traveled all night, at seven o’clock she was at the fort of the Point;
Chapter 45 · 📍 [[England]] · at nine
and at nine, the vessel, which with letters of marque from the cardinal was supposed to be sailing for Bayonne, raised anchor, and steered its course toward England.
Chapter 47 · 📍 [[bastion St. Gervais]]
Athos Porthos Aramis D’Artagnan
The brigadier and two pioneers fell dead; the rest of the troop took to flight.
Chapter 47 · 📍 [[bastion St. Gervais]] · an hour
Athos Porthos Aramis D’Artagnan
“Gentlemen,” said he, “we have been here an hour, and our wager is won;
Chapter 47 · That same evening
Richelieu D’Artagnan M. de Tréville
“Well, then, take him,” said the cardinal; “when four men are so much attached to one another, it is only fair that they should serve in the same company.”
Chapter 47 · The next day
The next day, M. Dessessart’s valet came to D’Artagnan’s lodging, and gave him a bag containing seven thousand livres. This was the price of the queen’s diamond.
Chapter 67
D’Artagnan took the paper hesitatingly and cast his eyes over it; it was a lieutenant’s commission in the Musketeers.
1628 (26 events)
Chapter 51 · 📍 [[La Rochelle]] · at length
Copies were put up at the corners of the streets; and even they who had begun to open negotiations interrupted them, being resolved to await the succor so pompously announced.
Chapter 51 · 📍 [[La Rochelle]] · then
He resolved, then, to carry on the war alone, and to look for no success foreign to himself, but as we look for a fortunate chance.
Chapter 51 · 📍 [[Béthune]]
D’Artagnan Mme. Bonacieux Aramis
She lives; she is in safety in a convent; she is at Béthune!
Chapter 51 · Meantime
Richelieu D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
These four men must positively be mine.
Chapter 59 · As soon as she heard the cannon
Milady had hastened her departure by an hour and a half.
Chapter 59 · 📍 [[Portsmouth]] · At that moment
Felton took advantage of this moment, and plunged the knife into his side up to the handle.
Chapter 59 · 📍 [[Portsmouth]]
Lord de Winter placed him in the hands of the guards
Chapter 59 · 📍 [[Portsmouth]]
Laporte Buckingham Anne of Austria
She likewise charged me to tell you that she still loved you.
Chapter 59 · 📍 [[Portsmouth]]
The queen charged me to tell you to watch over yourself, for she had advice that your assassination would be attempted.
Chapter 60 · 📍 [[England]]
The first fear of the King of England, Charles I., on learning of the death of the duke, was that such terrible news might discourage the Rochellais; he tried, says Richelieu in his Memoirs, to conceal it from them as long as possible, closing all the ports of his kingdom
Chapter 60 · 📍 [[England]]
two vessels had already left the port, the one bearing, as we know, Milady
Chapter 60 · 📍 [[The Louvre]] · August 10, 1628
Anne of Austria Mme. Bonacieux Aramis Marie Michon
The superior of the convent of Béthune will place in the hands of the person who shall present this note to her the novice who entered the convent upon my recommendation and under my patronage.
Chapter 60 · 📍 [[La Rochelle]] · the morning of the sixteenth
M. de Tréville D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
The lackeys were sent on before with the baggage, and they set out on the morning of the sixteenth.
Chapter 60 · 📍 [[Paris]] · on the twenty-third, in the night
M. de Tréville D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
The king thanked M. de Tréville, and permitted him to distribute furloughs for four days
Chapter 60 · the twenty-fourth at five o’clock in the evening
D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis Mme. Bonacieux
they set out on the twenty-fourth at five o’clock in the evening
Chapter 60 · 📍 [[Arras]] · On the evening of the twenty-fifth
D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
D’Artagnan unfolded the paper.
Chapter 60 · 📍 [[Béthune]]
D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
And the four friends flew at a gallop along the road to Béthune.
Chapter 67 · in the course of the following year
Porthos left the service, and in the course of the following year married Mme. Coquenard;
Chapter 67 · after a journey into Lorraine
Aramis, after a journey into Lorraine, disappeared all at once, and ceased to write to his friends; they learned at a later period through Mme. de Chevreuse, who told it to two or three of her intimates, that, yielding to his vocation, he had retired into a convent
Chapter 67 · at which period
Athos remained a Musketeer under the command of D’Artagnan till the year 1633, at which period, after a journey he made to Touraine, he also quit the service, under the pretext of having inherited a small property in Roussillon.
Chapter 67 · the fourth
They this time embraced heartily, and without retaining any malice.
Chapter 67
Planchet obtained from Rochefort the rank of sergeant in the Piedmont regiment.
Chapter 67 · 📍 [[Rue des Fossoyeurs]] · One day
M. Bonacieux, having left his house at seven o’clock in the evening to go to the Louvre, never appeared again in the Rue des Fossoyeurs
Undated
Chapter 2
the only inheritance he was able to leave his son was his sword and his motto
Chapter 2 · 📍 [[Brussels]]
Comte de Rochefort Monsieur de Laigues
he met at Brussels Rochefort, the âme damnée of the cardinal disguised as a Capuchin, and that this cursed Rochefort, thanks to his disguise, had tricked Monsieur de Laigues
Chapter 2
Richelieu Comte de Rochefort Chalais
has, with the help of this spy and thanks to this correspondence, Chalais’s throat cut
Chapter 3 · 📍 [[Rue Férou]] · the day before yesterday
two of our party were dead, and Athos, grievously wounded, was very little better. For you know Athos. Well, Captain, he endeavored twice to get up, and fell again twice. And we did not surrender—no! They dragged us away by force. On the way we escaped.
Chapter 3 · 📍 [[cabinet]]
at length overcome by it, fell upon the floor as if he were dead.
Chapter 3 · 📍 [[cabinet]]
Athos Porthos Aramis M. de Tréville
The surgeon declared that the situation of the Musketeer had nothing in it to render his friends uneasy, his weakness having been purely and simply caused by loss of blood.
Chapter 3 · 📍 [[Royal Academy]] · today
I will write a letter today to the Director of the Royal Academy, and tomorrow he will admit you without any expense to yourself.
Chapter 3
“It is he; it must be he!” murmured Tréville. “I believed him still at Brussels.”
Chapter 3 · 📍 [[cabinet]]
no one becomes a Musketeer without the preliminary ordeal of several campaigns, certain brilliant actions, or a service of two years in some other regiment less favored than ours.
Chapter 4 · 📍 [[Carmes-Deschaux]] · About noon
“Near the Carmes-Deschaux.” “At what hour?” “About noon.” “About noon? That will do; I will be there.”
Chapter 4 · 📍 [[behind the Luxembourg]] · At one o’clock
“At one o’clock, then, behind the Luxembourg.” “Very well, at one o’clock, then,” replied D’Artagnan
Chapter 4 · 📍 [[hôtel d’Arguillon]]
“will you persist in saying, most discreet Aramis, that you are not on good terms with Madame de Bois-Tracy, when that gracious lady has the kindness to lend you one of her handkerchiefs?”
Chapter 4 · 📍 [[hôtel of Monsieur de Tréville]] · At two o’clock
“At two o’clock I shall have the honor of expecting you at the hôtel of Monsieur de Tréville.”
Chapter 5 · 📍 [[convent of the Carmes Déchaussés]]
D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
Well, then, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D’Artagnan, forward!
Chapter 5 · 📍 [[convent of the Carmes Déchaussés]] · It was a quarter past midday.
Jussac fell like a dead mass.
Chapter 5 · 📍 [[convent of the Carmes Déchaussés]]
Aramis had killed one of his adversaries, but the other pressed him warmly.
Chapter 5 · 📍 [[convent of the Carmes Déchaussés]]
The exclamation was drawn from Athos by seeing the sword of Cahusac fly twenty paces from him.
Chapter 5 · 📍 [[convent of the Carmes Déchaussés]]
Athos D’Artagnan Aramis Bicarat
As you are my commander, it is my duty to obey.
Chapter 5 · 📍 [[hôtel of M. de Tréville]]
D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
at least I have entered upon my apprenticeship, haven’t I?
Chapter 6 · 📍 [[the Louvre]] · Tomorrow, at midday
Louis XIII M. de Tréville Athos Porthos Aramis D’Artagnan
No, bring me all four together. I wish to thank them all at once.
Chapter 6 · 📍 [[tennis court]]
Bernajoux cried out that it was nothing, and rushing blindly upon him, absolutely spitted himself upon D’Artagnan’s sword.
Chapter 6
Bernajoux M. de Tréville M. de la Trémouille
he described to the two nobles the affair exactly as it had passed.
Chapter 6 · 📍 [[the Louvre]] · the preceding evening
M. de la Trémouille M. de Tréville Louis XIII
I have told him the truth; that is to say, that the fault lay with my people, and that I was ready to offer you my excuses.
Chapter 6 · 📍 [[the Louvre]]
Louis XIII M. de Tréville D’Artagnan M. Dessessart
place this young man in the company of the Guards of Monsieur Dessessart, your brother-in-law.
Chapter 7 · 📍 [[Bridge Tournelle]]
he must enter into the service of D’Artagnan.
Chapter 7
He had entered the service of Porthos upon condition that he should only be clothed and lodged
Chapter 7
A Musketeer for a time, my friend, as the cardinal says, a Musketeer against my will, but a churchman at heart, believe me.
Chapter 7 · 📍 [[Rue des Fossoyeurs]]
After having well beaten him, he forbade him to leave his service without his permission.
Chapter 7 · One fine morning
Louis XIII M. de Chevalier Dessessart D’Artagnan
One fine morning the king commanded M. de Chevalier Dessessart to admit D’Artagnan as a cadet in his company of Guards.
Chapter 7 · the next day
Upon this promise D’Artagnan withdrew, and the next day he began service.
Chapter 8 · yesterday morning
well, monsieur, my wife was abducted yesterday morning, as she was coming out of her workroom.
Chapter 8
She believes that someone has written to the Duke of Buckingham in her name.
Chapter 8
“It is he!” cried D’Artagnan and the citizen at the same time, each having recognized his man.
Chapter 8
the landlord, dreading the consequences of the encounter which was doubtless about to take place between the young man and the stranger, had, consistent with the character he had given himself, judged it prudent to decamp.
Chapter 9
D’Artagnan M. Bonacieux Boisrenard
And D’Artagnan pushed the half-stupefied mercer among the Guards
Chapter 9 · from this moment
D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
“All for one, one for all—that is our motto, is it not?”
Chapter 10 · 📍 [[Bastille]] · yesterday evening
as to your husband, Monsieur Bonacieux, he is not here because he was yesterday evening conducted to the Bastille.
Chapter 10 · On the evening of the day after the arrest of poor Bonacieux
I took advantage of a moment when they left me alone; and as I had known since morning the reason of my abduction, with the help of the sheets I let myself down from the window.
Chapter 10 · 📍 [[M. Bonacieux’s apartment]] · On the evening of the day after the arrest of poor Bonacieux
D’Artagnan was conqueror—without much effort, it must be confessed, for only one of the officers was armed
Chapter 10 · 📍 [[Rue Férou]]
Athos D’Artagnan Mme. Bonacieux
As D’Artagnan had foreseen, Athos was not within. He took the key, which was customarily given him as one of the family, ascended the stairs, and introduced Mme. Bonacieux into the little apartment
Chapter 10 · 📍 [[Louvre]] · ten o’clock
D’Artagnan Germain Laporte Mme. Bonacieux
Everything fell out as Mme. Bonacieux prophesied. On hearing the password, Germain bowed. In a few minutes, Laporte was at the lodge; in two words D’Artagnan informed him where Mme. Bonacieux was.
Chapter 10 · 📍 [[M. de Tréville’s office]] · As ten o’clock was striking
D’Artagnan, who had profited by the moment he had been left alone to put back M. de Tréville’s clock three-quarters of an hour
Chapter 10 · 📍 [[M. de Tréville’s office]] · As ten o’clock was striking
Then D’Artagnan told M. de Tréville a long history about the queen.
Chapter 11 · 📍 [[Samaritaine]]
My Lord the Duke of Buckingham,” said Mme. Bonacieux, in an undertone
Chapter 11 · 📍 [[Samaritaine]]
You offer me your services; with the same frankness I accept them.
Chapter 11 · 📍 [[Louvre]]
the young woman and the handsome Musketeer entered the Louvre by the wicket of the Echelle without any interference.
Chapter 12 · 📍 [[Louvre]] · For two days
Mme. Bonacieux Buckingham Laporte
For two days no one knew what had become of her, and everything remained in suspense; but once free, and placed in communication with Laporte, matters resumed their course
Chapter 12 · 📍 [[Louvre]] · that evening
She then went out by the same door, which she locked, so that the duke found himself literally a prisoner.
Chapter 12 · 📍 [[Louvre]]
In short, I see you to tell you that we must never see each other again.
Chapter 12 · 📍 [[Louvre]] · This very instant
Here, my Lord, here,” said she, “keep this in memory of me.
Chapter 12 · 📍 [[Louvre]] · Immediately
And faithful to the promise he had made, he rushed out of the apartment.
Chapter 13 · 📍 [[Bastille]]
The officers who arrested him conducted him straight to the Bastille
Chapter 13 · 📍 [[Bastille]]
You must, nevertheless, have committed a crime, since you are here and are accused of high treason.
Chapter 13 · yesterday at five o’clock in the afternoon
Yes, but yesterday at five o’clock in the afternoon, thanks to you, she escaped.
Chapter 13 · 📍 [[Bastille]]
But I tell you, Monsieur Commissary,” cried Bonacieux, in his turn, “there is not the least doubt about the matter.
Chapter 13 · 📍 [[Bastille]]
The commissary designated by the same gesture Athos and Bonacieux, “Let them be guarded more closely than ever.”
Chapter 13 · about nine o’clock
They made him enter this carriage, the officer placed himself by his side, the door was locked
Chapter 14 · 📍 [[Louvre]]
“They have seen each other;” said he, approaching the cardinal eagerly.
Chapter 14
Richelieu M. Bonacieux Madame de Chevreuse Buckingham
“She went to meet the Duchesse de Chevreuse and the Duke of Buckingham.”
Chapter 14 · 📍 [[Tours and Boulogne]]
Comte de Rochefort Madame de Chevreuse Buckingham
“The duchess is at Tours, and the duke at Boulogne.”
Chapter 14
He will wear on his doublet twelve diamond studs; get as near to him as you can, and cut off two.
Chapter 15 · 📍 [[Fort l’Evêque]] · On the day after these events had taken place
have taken upon themselves to arrest in a house, to lead away through the open street, and throw into Fort l’Evêque, all upon an order which they have refused to show me, one of my, or rather your Musketeers, sire, of irreproachable conduct, of an almost illustrious reputation, and whom your Majesty knows favorably, Monsieur Athos.
Chapter 15 · 📍 [[Paris]] · five days
who, though exiled to Tours and believed to be in that city, had come to Paris, remained there five days, and outwitted the police
Chapter 15
Anne of Austria Madame de Chevreuse Richelieu
the queen had renewed with her one of those mysterious correspondences which at that time was named a _cabal;
Chapter 15 · 📍 [[Fort l’Evêque]]
Louis XIII Athos M. de Tréville
The king signed the order for release, and Tréville carried it away without delay.
Chapter 15 · 📍 [[Paris]] · this morning
Richelieu Louis XIII Buckingham
Sire, Buckingham has been in Paris five days, and only left this morning.
Chapter 16 · that day
Louis XIII Richelieu Des Roches le Masle Anne of Austria
That would be to charge Monsieur de Séguier, the keeper of the seals, with this mission.
Chapter 16
Anne of Austria Des Roches le Masle Louis XIII
There, monsieur, there is that letter!” cried the queen, with a broken and trembling voice; “take it, and deliver me from your odious presence.
Chapter 16
Louis XIII Anne of Austria Richelieu
It was nothing but a plan of attack against the cardinal.
Chapter 16 · the next day
Anne of Austria, who, in consequence of the seizure of her letter, expected reproaches, was much astonished the next day to see the king make some attempts at reconciliation with her.
Chapter 16 · the third of October
Louis XIII Anne of Austria Richelieu
Today is the twentieth of September. The aldermen of the city give a fête on the third of October.
Chapter 16 · 📍 [[London]] · On the eighth day after the scene we have described
I have them; but I am unable to leave London for want of money. Send me five hundred pistoles, and four or five days after I have received them I shall be in Paris.
Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Hôtel de Ville]] · shortly
“Then that is agreed,” said the king, “and that is all I had to say to you.”
Chapter 17
Mme. Bonacieux Anne of Austria Buckingham
Those studs which the king speaks of, you gave them to the Duke of Buckingham, did you not?
Chapter 17 · 📍 [[London]]
Anne of Austria Mme. Bonacieux Buckingham
She wrote two lines, sealed the letter with her private seal, and gave it to Mme. Bonacieux.
Chapter 17
Anne of Austria Mme. Bonacieux
Take this ring; raise money with it, and let your husband set out.
Chapter 17 · 📍 [[London]] · immediately
Hold, Madame Bonacieux,” said the mercer, “hold! I positively refuse; intrigues terrify me.
Chapter 17
M. Bonacieux Comte de Rochefort
He resolved then to hasten immediately to the residence of the Comte de Rochefort, and tell him that the queen was seeking for a messenger to send to London.
Chapter 17
I am sorry for it, madame, but I acknowledge no other power but that of the great man whom I have the honor to serve.
Chapter 18
Then the young woman confided in him the terrible secret of which chance had already communicated to him a part in front of the Samaritaine. This was their mutual declaration of love.
Chapter 18
“Then,” replied Mme. Bonacieux, opening a cupboard and taking from it the very bag which a half hour before her husband had caressed so affectionately, “take this bag.”
Chapter 18
Once there, for greater security, the young man barricaded the door.
Chapter 18
“I go to the Louvre; I ask for Mme. Bonacieux; I say that I have reflected; I renew the affair; I obtain the letter, and I run directly to the cardinal.”
Chapter 18 · 📍 [[Rue des Fossoyeurs]]
It was her husband, who had discovered the disappearance of the moneybag, and was crying “Thieves!”
Chapter 19 · 📍 [[London]] · This very night
D’Artagnan M. de Tréville M. Dessessart
I wish you to obtain for me, from Monsieur Dessessart, leave of absence for fifteen days.
Chapter 19 · 📍 [[Paris]]
Well, then, since she has left Paris, and you are sure of it, D’Artagnan, nothing prevents me, and I am ready to follow you.
Chapter 19 · 📍 [[Athos’s dwelling]]
They found him holding his leave of absence in one hand, and M. de Tréville’s note in the other.
Chapter 19 · 📍 [[Athos’s dwelling]]
D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
There are in this bag three hundred pistoles. Let each take seventy-five; that is enough to take us to London and back.
Chapter 19 · 📍 [[Athos’s dwelling]] · in half an hour
D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
I decide that we should adopt Athos’s plan, and that we set off in half an hour.
Chapter 20 · 📍 [[Beauvais]]
At Beauvais they stopped two hours, as well to breathe their horses a little as to wait for Porthos.
Chapter 20 · 📍 [[Amiens]]
“I am taken!” shouted Athos, with all the power of his lungs. “Go on, D’Artagnan! Spur, spur!”
Chapter 20 · 📍 [[Calais]]
D’Artagnan searched his pockets, and took from one of them the order for the passage. It was in the name of Comte de Wardes.
Chapter 20 · 📍 [[Calais]]
He leaped with Planchet into the boat, and five minutes after they were on board.
Chapter 20
“I believe not; nevertheless I believe she runs some great peril from which your Grace alone can extricate her.”
Chapter 20 · 📍 [[London]]
“Patrick, remain here, or rather join the king, wherever he may be, and tell his Majesty that I humbly beg him to excuse me, but an affair of the greatest importance recalls me to London. Come, monsieur, come!”
Chapter 21 · 📍 [[Windsor]] · eight days ago
The Comtesse de Winter, with whom I had quarreled, became reconciled to me at that ball. That reconciliation was nothing but the vengeance of a jealous woman.
Chapter 21 · 📍 [[La Rochelle]]
She asked me not to send the Protestants of La Rochelle the assistance I promised them; I have not done so.
Chapter 21 · 📍 [[Great Britain]] · In one hour after
In one hour after, the ordinance was published in London that no vessel bound for France should leave port, not even the packet boat with letters.
Chapter 21 · 📍 [[palace]]
Therefore, my dear Mr. O’Reilly, you are my prisoner.
Chapter 21 · On the day after the morrow, by eleven o’clock
On the day after the morrow, by eleven o’clock, the two diamond studs were finished
Chapter 21 · On the day after the morrow, by eleven o’clock
“Here,” said he to him, “are the diamond studs that you came to bring; and be my witness that I have done all that human power could do.”
Chapter 21 · 📍 [[Louvre]] · the same morning
D’Artagnan M. de Tréville M. Dessessart
the company of Dessessart was on duty at the Louvre, and that he might repair at once to his post.
Chapter 22 · 📍 [[Hôtel de Ville]] · At ten o’clock in the morning
These keys were given up to him instantly. Each of them had a ticket attached to it, by which it might be recognized; and from that moment the Sieur de la Coste was charged with the care of all the doors and all the avenues.
Chapter 22 · 📍 [[Hôtel de Ville]] · within an hour
“Do so, madame, do so, and that at once; for within an hour the ballet will commence.”
Chapter 22 · 📍 [[Hôtel de Ville]]
The cardinal drew near to the king, and placed in his hand a small casket. The king opened it, and found in it two diamond studs.
Chapter 22 · 📍 [[Hôtel de Ville]] · At that moment
Louis XIII Anne of Austria Richelieu
In fact the king counted them, and the twelve studs were all on her Majesty’s shoulder.
Chapter 22 · 📍 [[Hôtel de Ville]]
“And I am the more grateful to your Eminence,” replied Anne of Austria, with a smile that proved she was not the dupe of this ingenious gallantry, “from being certain that these two studs alone have cost you as much as all the others cost his Majesty.”
Chapter 22 · At length
Then the hand was withdrawn, leaving in his an object which he perceived to be a ring.
Chapter 23 · 📍 [[St. Cloud]] · this evening about ten o’clock
There are many thanks to be offered to you, and to be transmitted to you. Be this evening about ten o’clock at St. Cloud, in front of the pavilion which stands at the corner of the house of M. d’Estrées.—C.B.
Chapter 23
“This diamond does not come from an enemy, monsieur,” replied D’Artagnan, “it comes from the queen.”
Chapter 23
D’Artagnan Porthos Aramis Athos
“Well, I left them on my road—Porthos at Chantilly, with a duel on his hands; Aramis at Crèvecœur, with a ball in his shoulder; and Athos at Amiens, detained by an accusation of coining.”
Chapter 23 · 📍 [[Picardy]] · tomorrow
“You have given your word, then?” “Yes, monsieur.” “Ah, that’s quite another thing; but promise me, if you should not be killed tonight, that you will go tomorrow.” “I promise it.”
Chapter 23
as soon as Monsieur had left and disappeared round the corner of the street, Monsieur Bonacieux took his hat, shut his door, and set off at a quick pace in an opposite direction.
Chapter 23 · 📍 [[St. Cloud]] · this evening
the more ill will I have toward Monsieur Bonacieux, the more punctual I shall be in keeping the appointment made by that letter which makes you so uneasy.
Chapter 24 · 📍 [[D’Estrées’s pavilion]] · Eleven o’clock
Everything in the apartment gave evidence of a violent and desperate struggle.
Chapter 24 · 📍 [[D’Estrées’s pavilion]] · scarcely nine o’clock
Two of the men appeared, bearing the woman in their arms, and carried her to the carriage.
Chapter 24 · 📍 [[St. Cloud]] · About seven o’clock in the evening
D’Artagnan did not for an instant doubt that it was Mme. Bonacieux whom the boatman had noticed.
Chapter 25 · 📍 [[Palais-Royal]]
He came, he said, on the part of his Eminence, who wished you well, and to beg you to follow him to the Palais-Royal.
Chapter 25 · 📍 [[Paris]] · In a quarter of an hour
In a quarter of an hour we set off.
Chapter 25 · 📍 [[Chantilly]]
the stranger made a feint and a lunge, and that so rapidly that when Monsieur Porthos came to the parade, he had already three inches of steel in his breast.
Chapter 25 · 📍 [[Chantilly]]
my seventy-five pistoles passed from my pocket to his, without reckoning my horse, which he won into the bargain.
Chapter 25 · 📍 [[Rue aux Ours]]
Why, she is the old wife of a procurator* of the Châtelet, monsieur, named Madame Coquenard
Chapter 25 · 📍 [[Chantilly]]
he resumed his route with Planchet, already relieved of one of his led horses.
Chapter 26 · 📍 [[Rue Payenne]] · on the anniversary of the day on which I had been insulted
We went out. I took him to the Rue Payenne, to exactly the same spot where, a year before, at the very same hour, he had paid me the compliment I have related to you. It was a superb moonlight night. We immediately drew, and at the first pass I laid him stark dead.
Chapter 26
She was forced to return to Tours; she is not faithless; she still loves me!
Chapter 26
Order a larded hare, a fat capon, mutton leg dressed with garlic, and four bottles of old Burgundy.
Chapter 27 · 📍 [[Amiens]]
It appears that I had made a mistake, monsieur, that I had arrested the wrong person, and that he whom I ought to have arrested had escaped.
Chapter 27 · 📍 [[Amiens]]
An instant after, the broken door was removed, and the pale face of Athos appeared
Chapter 27 · 📍 [[Amiens]]
It’s worth eighty. Take it, and there ends the matter. “What,” cried Athos, “are you selling my horse—my Bajazet? And pray upon what shall I make my campaign; upon Grimaud?” “I have brought you another,” said D’Artagnan.
Chapter 27
A _fleur-de-lis,” said Athos. “She was branded. Athos emptied at a single draught the glass he held in his hand. “Horror!” cried D’Artagnan. “What do you tell me?” “Truth, my friend. The angel was a demon; the poor young girl had stolen the sacred vessels from a church.” “And what did the count do?” “The count was of the highest nobility. He had on his estates the rights of high and low tribunals. He tore the dress of the countess to pieces; he tied her hands behind her, and hanged her on a tree.”
Chapter 28 · that morning
He acquiesced, therefore, and chose the hundred pistoles, which the Englishman paid down on the spot.
Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Crèvecœur]]
the governor of the province—one of the gentlemen I expected today—seemed to have such a wish for him, that I gave him to him.
Chapter 28
for the animal was worth at least a hundred and fifty louis, and the stingy fellow would only give me eighty.
Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Paris]] · On arriving in Paris
the king had promised that he should enter the company of the Musketeers.
Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Paris]] · on the first of May
M. de Tréville Athos Aramis Porthos D’Artagnan
M. de Tréville had intimated to them his Majesty’s fixed intention to open the campaign on the first of May
Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Paris]]
Athos D’Artagnan Aramis Porthos
they must immediately prepare their outfits.
Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Paris]]
there is that beautiful ring which beams from the finger of our friend.
Chapter 29 · 📍 [[St. Leu]] · one day
D’Artagnan, who recognized in her the lady of Meung, of Calais, and of Dover, whom his persecutor, the man with the scar, had saluted by the name of Milady.
Chapter 29
if in the time to come you should find yourself in a similar situation, you have but to apply to me.
Chapter 29 · 📍 [[cloister St. Magloire]]
Fortunately, by our marriage contract, the survivor takes everything.
Chapter 30 · 📍 [[Hôtel Field of the Cloth of Gold]] · Tomorrow
A person who takes more interest in you than she is willing to confess wishes to know on what day it will suit you to walk in the forest? Tomorrow, at the Hôtel Field of the Cloth of Gold, a lackey in black and red will wait for your reply.
Chapter 30 · 📍 [[St. Germain]]
No, monsieur, he is as well as a man can be with four sword wounds in his body; for you, without question, inflicted four upon the dear gentleman, and he is still very weak, having lost almost all his blood.
Chapter 30 · 📍 [[St. Germain]]
Milady Lord de Winter D’Artagnan
Monsieur, I should with great confidence place myself under your protection if the person with whom I quarrel were not my brother.
Chapter 30 · 📍 [[Behind the Luxembourg]] · Six o’clock
“Where, if you please?” “Behind the Luxembourg; that’s a charming spot for such amusements as the one I propose to you.” “That will do; I will be there.” “Your hour?” “Six o’clock.”
Chapter 31 · 📍 [[behind the Luxembourg]] · The hour having come
Athos killed his adversary first.
Chapter 31 · 📍 [[behind the Luxembourg]] · The hour having come
Because I am believed to be dead, and have reasons for wishing nobody to know I am living
Chapter 31 · 📍 [[behind the Luxembourg]] · The hour having come
I could kill you, my Lord, you are completely in my hands; but I spare your life for the sake of your sister.
Chapter 31 · 📍 [[Place Royale]]
Lord de Winter D’Artagnan Milady
Milady Clarik received D’Artagnan ceremoniously.
Chapter 31 · 📍 [[Place Royale]]
She had married a younger brother of the family, who had left her a widow with one child. This child was the only heir to Lord de Winter, if Lord de Winter did not marry.
Chapter 32
Mme. Coquenard Porthos Mousqueton
the result of the sitting was that the procurator’s wife should give eight hundred livres in money, and should furnish the horse and the mule which should have the honor of carrying Porthos and Mousqueton to glory.
Chapter 33
The second reason, Monsieur the Chevalier,” replied Kitty, emboldened by the kiss in the first place, and still further by the expression of the eyes of the young man, “is that in love, everyone for herself!
Chapter 33
Milady D’Artagnan Lord de Winter
I love him? I detest him! An idiot, who held the life of Lord de Winter in his hands and did not kill him, by which I missed three hundred thousand livres’ income.”
Chapter 33 · At eleven o’clock
At eleven o’clock Kitty came to him. She held in her hand a fresh billet from Milady. This time the poor girl did not even argue with D’Artagnan; she gave it to him at once.
Chapter 33
This note was in the first place a forgery; it was likewise an indelicacy.
Chapter 33 · that evening
Although she cried freely before deciding to transmit the letter to her mistress, she did at last so decide
Chapter 34
D’Artagnan Milady Mme. Bonacieux
I have acquired certain knowledge that that woman was concerned in the abduction of Madame Bonacieux.
Chapter 34 · 📍 [[Rue de Vaugirard]]
Perform your duty in camp; I will do mine elsewhere. Accept that which the bearer brings you;
Chapter 34 · 📍 [[Rue de Vaugirard]]
The mendicant continued to rip his garments; and drew from amid his rags a hundred and fifty Spanish double pistoles, which he laid down on the table;
Chapter 34 · 📍 [[Rue aux Ours]]
Arrived there, he fastened, according to the orders of his master, both horse and mule to the knocker of the procurator’s door;
Chapter 34 · 📍 [[cloister of St. Magloire]] · This evening
Porthos Mme. Coquenard M. Coquenard Duc de Chaulnes
This evening M. Coquenard is going to the house of the Duc de Chaulnes, who has sent for him. It is for a consultation, which will last three hours at least. Come! We shall be alone, and can make up our accounts.
Chapter 35 · the next morning
I will have done with her. I own that this woman terrifies me.
Chapter 36 · The next morning
D’Artagnan asked the poor girl what was the matter with her; but she, as her only reply, drew a letter from her pocket and gave it to him. This letter was in Milady’s handwriting; only this time it was addressed to M. d’Artagnan, and not to M. de Wardes.
Chapter 36 · 📍 [[Place Royale]] · Tomorrow
“Avenge me of that infamous De Wardes,” said Milady, between her teeth, “and I shall soon know how to get rid of you—you double idiot, you animated sword blade!” “Fall voluntarily into my arms, hypocritical and dangerous woman,” said D’Artagnan, likewise to himself, “after having abused me with such effrontery, and afterward I will laugh at you with him whom you wish me to kill.” D’Artagnan lifted up his head. “I am ready,” said he.
Chapter 36 · 📍 [[Place Royale]]
“De Wardes; I know it,” cried D’Artagnan. “And how do you know it?” asked Milady, seizing both his hands, and endeavoring to read with her eyes to the bottom of his heart. D’Artagnan felt he had allowed himself to be carried away, and that he had committed an error. “Tell me, tell me, tell me, I say,” repeated Milady, “how do you know it?” “How do I know it?” said D’Artagnan. “Yes.” “I know it because yesterday Monsieur de Wardes, in a saloon where I was, showed a ring which he said he had received from you.”
Chapter 36 · 📍 [[Place Royale]] · at eleven o’clock
“Go out this way,” said she, opening a small private door, “and come back at eleven o’clock; we will then terminate this conversation. Kitty will conduct you to my chamber.”
Chapter 37 · on the morrow
“He shall die, then, since you condemn him!” said D’Artagnan, in so firm a tone that it appeared to Milady an undoubted proof of devotion.
Chapter 37
“That ring I have! The Comte de Wardes of Thursday and the D’Artagnan of today are the same person.”
Chapter 37 · It was almost broad daylight.
and on one of those lovely shoulders, round and white, D’Artagnan recognized, with inexpressible astonishment, the fleur-de-lis—that indelible mark which the hand of the infamous executioner had imprinted.
Chapter 37 · It was almost broad daylight.
drew from it a small poniard, with a golden haft and a sharp thin blade, and then threw herself with a bound upon D’Artagnan.
Chapter 37
With one spring he flew from the chamber of Milady into that of the maid, and quick as lightning, he slammed to the door, and placed all his weight against it, while Kitty pushed the bolts.
Chapter 37 · 📍 [[hôtel]]
In a turn of the hand she muffled him up in a flowered robe, a large hood, and a cloak. She gave him some slippers, in which he placed his naked feet, and then conducted him down the stairs.
Chapter 38
In the meantime,” said Athos, “I renounce my plan of seclusion, and wherever you go, I will go with you.
Chapter 38
Aramis Kitty Madame de Bois-Tracy
Madame de Bois-Tracy asked me, for one of her friends who resides in the provinces, I believe, for a trustworthy maid.
Chapter 38
Go and tell him the ring is his, D’Artagnan, and bring back the two hundred pistoles with you.
Chapter 38
Athos and D’Artagnan, with the activity of two soldiers and the knowledge of two connoisseurs, hardly required three hours to purchase the entire equipment of the Musketeer.
Chapter 39 · 📍 [[Palais-Cardinal]] · this evening, at eight o’clock
D’Artagnan La Houdinière Richelieu
M. d’Artagnan, of the king’s Guards, company Dessessart, is expected at the Palais-Cardinal this evening, at eight o’clock.
Chapter 39 · 📍 [[road of Chaillot]] · just as twilight was beginning to thicken
D’Artagnan uttered a slight cry of joy; this woman, or rather this apparition—for the carriage passed with the rapidity of a vision—was Mme. Bonacieux.
Chapter 39 · 📍 [[Place du Palais-Cardinal]] · Half past seven
D’Artagnan Athos Aramis Porthos
in the Place du Palais-Cardinal they found the twelve invited Musketeers, walking about in expectation of their comrades.
Chapter 39 · 📍 [[Palais-Cardinal]]
He traversed a corridor, crossed a grand saloon, entered a library, and found himself in the presence of a man seated at a desk and writing.
Chapter 40
“from the moment I withdraw my hand from behind you, I would not give an obolus for your life.”
Chapter 40 · The whole of the next day
D’Artagnan M. de Tréville M. Dessessart
The whole of the next day was spent in preparations for departure.
Chapter 40 · 📍 [[Louvre]] · At the first sound of the morning trumpet
D’Artagnan M. de Tréville M. Dessessart
At the first sound of the morning trumpet the friends separated; the Musketeers hastening to the hôtel of M. de Tréville, the Guards to that of M. Dessessart.
Chapter 40 · The review over
The review over, the Guards set forward alone on their march, the Musketeers waiting for the king
Chapter 40 · 📍 [[Faubourg St. Antoine]] · In the meantime
Milady, who, mounted upon a light chestnut horse, designated him with her finger to two ill-looking men who came close up to the ranks to take notice of him.
Chapter 42 · 📍 [[Villeroy]] · for some days
M. D’ARTAGNAN, MM. Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, after having had an entertainment at my house and enjoying themselves very much, created such a disturbance that the provost of the castle, a rigid man, has ordered them to be confined for some days;
Chapter 42 · that moment
D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
In short, the king, impatient, as has been said, had come by forced marches, and had that moment arrived with all his household and a reinforcement of ten thousand troops. His Musketeers proceeded and followed him.
Chapter 42
D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
“This is not his writing!” said Athos. “I am acquainted with it; before we left Villeroy I settled the accounts of the regiment.” “A false letter altogether,” said Porthos, “we have not been disciplined.”
Chapter 42
“Upon the Gospel,” said D’Artagnan, throwing himself down by the dying man, “I swear to you that the wine was poisoned and that I was going to drink of it as you did.” “I do not believe you,” cried the soldier, and he expired amid horrible tortures.
Chapter 43
Bassompierre Schomberg Duc d’Angoulême
The result was that to prevent MM. Bassompierre and Schomberg from deserting the army, a separate command had to be given to each.
Chapter 43 · 📍 [[Isle of Loie]]
The English, repulsed foot by foot, beaten in all encounters, and defeated in the passage of the Isle of Loie, were obliged to re-embark
Chapter 43
An envoy of the Duke of Buckingham, named Montague, was taken, and proof was obtained of a league between the German Empire, Spain, England, and Lorraine.
Chapter 43 · 📍 [[Buckingham’s lodging]]
papers were found which confirmed this alliance and which, as the cardinal asserts in his memoirs, strongly compromised Mme. de Chevreuse and consequently the queen.
Chapter 43 · 📍 [[Red Dovecot]] · one evening
My friend, Aramis, here, has received a slight sword wound in the arm
Chapter 44 · 📍 [[London]]
“You will go to London,” continued the cardinal. “Arrived in London, you will seek Buckingham.”
Chapter 44
“Well, such a woman, who would place the knife of Jacques Clément or of Ravaillac in the hands of a fanatic, would save France.”
Chapter 44
“That is to say, she was there,” replied Milady; “but the queen has obtained an order from the king by means of which she has been conveyed to a convent.”
Chapter 44 · 📍 [[Bastille]]
“A proof?” cried Milady; “I will have ten.” “Well, then, it becomes the simplest thing in the world; get me that proof, and I will send him to the Bastille.”
Chapter 44 · 📍 [[the camp]]
As to Athos, he went out without any mystery, took his horse, which was tied with those of his friends to the fastenings of the shutters, in four words convinced the attendant of the necessity of a vanguard for their return, carefully examined the priming of his pistols, drew his sword, and took, like a forlorn hope, the road to the camp.
Chapter 46 · 📍 [[bastion St. Gervais]] · last night
D’Artagnan Athos Porthos Aramis
we have had that honor. We even have, as you may have heard, introduced a barrel of powder under one of the angles, which in blowing up made a very pretty breach.
Chapter 46 · 📍 [[Parpaillot]]
Athos Porthos Aramis D’Artagnan M. de Busigny
“I take it,” said M. de Busigny; “so let us fix the stake.”
Chapter 46 · 📍 [[bastion St. Gervais]] · Thirty-five minutes after seven
Athos Porthos Aramis D’Artagnan
after which all four disappeared in the bastion, whither Grimaud had preceded them.
Chapter 48 · In the morning
When you have given the letter to Lord de Winter and he has read it, you will further say to him: Watch over his Grace Lord Buckingham, for they wish to assassinate him.
Chapter 48 · 📍 [[cabaret of the Parpaillot]] · On the morning of the eighth day
On the morning of the eighth day, Bazin, fresh as ever, and smiling, according to custom, entered the cabaret of the Parpaillot as the four friends were sitting down to breakfast, saying, as had been agreed upon: “Monsieur Aramis, the answer from your cousin.”
Chapter 48 · at eight o’clock
“Planchet!” cried D’Artagnan, beside himself with joy.
Chapter 48 · 📍 [[the tent]]
Athos took the letter from the hands of D’Artagnan, approached the lamp, set fire to the paper, and did not let go till it was reduced to a cinder.
Chapter 49 · At the same time
“Is mine.” “This chamber?” “Is yours.” “I am, then, your prisoner?” “Nearly so.”
Chapter 50
Yes, at present,” continued Lord de Winter, “you will remain in this castle.
Chapter 50
Yes, your French husband. I don’t speak of my brother. If you have forgotten, as he is still living, I can write to him and he will send me information on the subject.
Chapter 50 · In fifteen or twenty days
In fifteen or twenty days I shall set out for La Rochelle with the army; but on the eve of my departure a vessel which I shall see depart will take you hence and convey you to our colonies in the south.
Chapter 50
She is not to leave this chamber, understand, John,” continued the baron. “She is to correspond with nobody; she is to speak to no one but you—if you will do her the honor to address a word to her.
Chapter 50
A step, a gesture, a word, on your part, denoting an effort to escape, and you are to be fired upon.
Chapter 52
I wish to pay her the attention that every man of gentle birth owes to a woman
Chapter 53 · In the morning
Lord de Winter, who is a Catholic, like yourself, madame, thinking that the deprivation of the rites and ceremonies of your church might be painful to you, has consented that you should read every day the ordinary of your Mass; and here is a book which contains the ritual.
Chapter 53 · toward five o’clock in the evening
As to the rest, in eight days you will be where you ought to be, and my task will be completed.
Chapter 54 · in the evening
She is to dwell in this place without ever going more than three leagues from it. In case of any attempt to escape, the penalty of death is to be applied.
Chapter 54 · in the evening
My brother is only your second husband; and your first is still living.
Chapter 54 · in the evening
Lord de Winter Milady Buckingham
Tomorrow this order will be sent to the Duke of Buckingham. The day after tomorrow it will return signed by his hand and marked with his seal; and four-and-twenty hours afterward I will answer for its being carried into execution.
Chapter 54 · in the evening
Would you like better to be hanged in your true name, Milady? You know that the English laws are inexorable on the abuse of marriage.
Chapter 55 · The next day
you were going to complete the fatal project you cherish in your mind
Chapter 55 · in three days
in three days we shall be delivered from this creature, and where I shall send her she can harm nobody.
Chapter 56 · At nine o’clock
At nine o’clock, Lord de Winter made his customary visit, examined the window and the bars, sounded the floor and the walls, looked to the chimney and the doors
Chapter 57 · 📍 [[Spain]] · the day before
“Buckingham had left England the day before, sent as ambassador to Spain, to demand the hand of the Infanta for King Charles I.
Chapter 57 · A week before his return
A week before his return Lord de Winter died, leaving me his sole heir.
Chapter 57 · Six days ago
He caused me to be arrested, had me conducted hither, and placed me under your guard.
Chapter 57 · The day after tomorrow
The day after tomorrow he banishes me, he transports me; the day after tomorrow he exiles me among the infamous.
Chapter 57
Felton uttered a cry, and rushed toward her. He was too late; Milady had stabbed herself.
Chapter 58 · the morning
Felton was sent away. The marines were removed. Felton was then mistrusted.
Chapter 58 · Tomorrow
Lord de Winter Milady Buckingham
Tomorrow, by twelve o’clock, I shall have the order for your exile, signed, Buckingham.
Chapter 58 · 📍 [[France]]
this is the person of whom I spoke to you, and whom you must convey safe and sound to France.
Chapter 58 · 📍 [[La Rochelle]] · Tomorrow
“Be satisfied,” replied Felton; “he will not sail.”
Chapter 61 · 📍 [[Béthune]]
The superior met her; Milady showed her the cardinal’s order. The abbess assigned her a chamber, and had breakfast served.
Chapter 61 · 📍 [[Béthune]]
“Yes, you! I know you now. You are Madame Bonacieux!”
Chapter 61 · 📍 [[Béthune]] · Tomorrow, this evening, perhaps
Milady Mme. Bonacieux D’Artagnan
“I expect himself.” “Himself? D’Artagnan here?” “Himself!”
Chapter 61 · 📍 [[Béthune]]
Milady Mme. Bonacieux D’Artagnan Richelieu
“No, I only suspect he has warned the queen against some fresh machinations of the cardinal.”
Chapter 61 · 📍 [[Béthune]]
Milady uttered a cry of joy; this man was the Comte de Rochefort—the demoniacal tool of his Eminence.
Chapter 62 · tomorrow or the day after
They will come for her tomorrow or the day after, with an order from the queen.
Chapter 62
a letter which Madame Bonacieux has received from Madame the Constable, and which she has had the imprudence to show me, leads me to believe that these four men, on the contrary, are on the road hither to take her away.
Chapter 62 · In an hour
An hour afterward Rochefort set out at a grand gallop;
Chapter 63
All at once she paused, a livid flash darted from her eyes; she ran to the table, emptied into Mme. Bonacieux’s glass the contents of a ring which she opened with singular quickness. It was a grain of a reddish color, which dissolved immediately. Then, taking the glass with a firm hand, she said, “Drink. This wine will give you strength, drink!” And she put the glass to the lips of the young woman, who drank mechanically.
Chapter 63 · 📍 [[Béthune]]
“Oh, yes!” cried D’Artagnan, “yes! If it be to avenge her, I am ready to follow you.”
Chapter 64 · 📍 [[Armentières]] · the next morning at daybreak
Athos Planchet Grimaud Bazin Mousqueton
They must set out the next morning at daybreak, and go to Armentières—each by a different route.
Chapter 64
Athos the tall man
The tall man had scarcely read these lines, seen the signature, and recognized the seal, when he bowed to denote that he had no longer any objection to make, and that he was ready to obey.
Chapter 64
As to the poisoner, they had heard no tidings of her whatever, only that she must have made her escape through the garden, on the sand of which her footsteps could be traced, and the door of which had been found shut.
Chapter 64 · In a quarter of an hour
Athos the man in the red cloak
In a quarter of an hour he returned, accompanied by a tall man, masked, and wrapped in a large red cloak.
Chapter 64 · At nine o’clock
Athos Lord de Winter D’Artagnan Planchet
At nine o’clock, guided by Planchet, the little cavalcade set out, taking the route the carriage had taken.
Chapter 65 · yesterday evening
I accuse this woman of having poisoned Constance Bonacieux, who died yesterday evening.
Chapter 65 · 📍 [[Villeroy]]
I accuse this woman of having attempted to poison me, in wine which she sent me from Villeroy, with a forged letter, as if that wine came from my friends. God preserved me, but a man named Brisemont died in my place.
Chapter 65
Milady Buckingham Felton Lord de Winter
She corrupted this man; she placed the poniard in his hand; she made him kill the duke.
Chapter 65
My brother, who made you his heir, died in three hours of a strange disorder which left livid traces all over the body.
Chapter 65 · 📍 [[Lille]]
I followed her, I caught her, I bound her; and I imprinted the same disgraceful mark upon her that I had imprinted upon my poor brother.
Chapter 65
She did not, therefore, even attempt the least resistance, and went out of the cottage.
Chapter 66 · 📍 [[Lys]] · near midnight
“Change these lackeys,” said he; “she has spoken to them. They are no longer sure.”
Chapter 66 · 📍 [[Lys]]
Milady Athos Lord de Winter D’Artagnan
“I pardon you,” said he, “the ill you have done me. I pardon you for my blasted future, my lost honor, my defiled love, and my salvation forever compromised by the despair into which you have cast me. Die in peace!”
Chapter 66 · 📍 [[Lys]]
Milady, during the passage had contrived to untie the cord which fastened her feet. On coming near the bank, she jumped lightly on shore and took to flight.
Chapter 66 · 📍 [[Lys]]
The two arms fell with a sudden force; they heard the hissing of the scimitar and the cry of the victim, then a truncated mass sank beneath the blow.