The Man in the Iron Mask — Chronicle
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Chapter 11 · 📍 [[Vaux-le-Vicomte]] · in 1655
The chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte, situated about a league from Melun, had been built by Fouquet in 1655
Undated
Chapter 1
Aramis Philippe Anne of Austria
“Your father is dead.” “And my mother?” “She is dead for you.”
Chapter 1
“In a very sure way,” answered Aramis--“they are dead.” The young man turned pale, and passed his hand tremblingly over his face. “Poison?” he asked. “Poison.”
Chapter 1
Philippe Anne of Austria Mazarin
Quite enough, monsieur, to see that my tutor was a man of noble rank, and that Perronnette, without being a lady of quality, was far better than a servant; and also to perceived that I must myself be high-born, since the queen, Anne of Austria, and Mazarin, the prime minister, commended me so earnestly to their care.
Chapter 1
Aramis Philippe Anne of Austria Louis XIII. Louis XIV
this is why one of the queen’s two sons, shamefully parted from his brother, shamefully sequestered, is buried in profound obscurity; this is why that second son has disappeared, and so completely, that not a soul in France, save his mother, is aware of his existence.
Chapter 1 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
“You have to ask me for my receipt for one hundred and fifty thousand livres,” said the bishop. “And to pay over the first third of the sum,” added the poor governor, with a sigh, taking three steps towards his iron strong-box. “Here is the receipt,” said Aramis. “And here is the money,” returned Baisemeaux, with a threefold sigh.
Chapter 2 · 📍 [[Pierrefonds]] · after a year and a half’s judicious feeding
Consider my joy when, after a year and a half’s judicious feeding--for I used to feed him up myself--the fellow--
Chapter 2 · nearly two years and a half ago
It was exactly at that time--that is to say, nearly two years and a half ago--that I set out for Belle-Isle, instructing Mouston (so as always to have, in every event, a pattern of every fashion) to have a coat made for himself every month.
Chapter 2 · this morning
But it wants only two days to the fete; I received the invitation yesterday; made Mouston post hither with my wardrobe, and only this morning discovered my misfortune
Chapter 2 · Sunday morning
Let us go to the king’s tailor,” he said; “and since he measures the king, I think, by my faith, I may do worse than allow him to measure me!
Chapter 3
Henry IV. Marie de Medici Percerin
The marriage of Henry IV. and Marie de Medici, and the exquisite court-mourning for the afore-mentioned queen, together with a few words let fall by M. de Bassompiere, king of the beaux of the period, made the fortune of the second generation of Percerins.
Chapter 3
M. Concino Concini Galligai Percerin
Concino was the first to give up his compatriots, and held the French tailor in such esteem that he would never employ any other
Chapter 3 · 📍 [[Pont du Louvre]] · the very day
thus wore a doublet of his on the very day that Vitry blew out his brains with a pistol at the Pont du Louvre.
Chapter 3 · At the time that Louis the Just afforded this great example of equity
the king, Louis XIII., had the generosity to bear no malice to his tailor, and to retain him in his service.
Chapter 3 · 📍 [[M. Percerin’s house]]
D’Artagnan, showing himself, pronounced merely these words, “The king’s order,” and was let in with his friend.
Chapter 3
for he immediately rose and led the way into the adjoining chamber.
Chapter 4 · 📍 [[M. Percerin’s room]]
Aramis put his hand on his pocket to assure himself the patterns were secure,--and they all left the study.
Chapter 5 · 📍 [[Saint-Mande]]
this gentleman is one of M. Percerin’s chief clerks, and is expected at Saint-Mande to try on the dresses which M. Fouquet has ordered for the Epicureans.
Chapter 6 · 📍 [[Saint-Mande]]
And Fouquet, taking a pen, wrote a few rapid lines to his colleague Lyonne.
Chapter 7 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
Francois re-entered; Baisemeaux took from his hands the minister’s order. He slowly undid it, and as slowly read it. Aramis pretended to be drinking, so as to be able to watch his host through the glass. Then, Baisemeaux, having read it: “What was I just saying?” he exclaimed. “What is it?” asked the bishop. “An order of release!
Chapter 7 · 📍 [[Bastile]] · To-morrow morning, at daybreak
“And I shall directly obey; and to-morrow morning, at daybreak, the prisoner referred to shall be set free.”
Chapter 7 · 📍 [[Bastile]] · this evening
“It shall be as you desire, only our supper will get cold.”
Chapter 7 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
The order had remained on the table; Aramis seized the opportunity when Baisemeaux was not looking to change the paper for another, folded in the same manner, which he drew swiftly from his pocket.
Chapter 8 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
the order is signed to release Marchiali, blot or no blot.
Chapter 8 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
It is our pleasure that the order brought to M. de Baisemeaux de Montlezun, governor, for the king, of the castle of the Bastile, be held by him good and effectual, and be immediately carried into operation.
Chapter 8 · 📍 [[Bastile]] · Half an hour afterwards
And now, monsieur, you are free.
Chapter 8 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
The prisoner perceived a crucifix; he stretched out his hands and swore with his lips.
Chapter 8 · 📍 [[forest of Senart]] · At length
No more walls either on the right or the left; heaven everywhere, liberty everywhere, and life everywhere.
Chapter 9
Aramis Philippe Louis XIII. Louis XIV
You are the son of King Louis XIII., brother of Louis XIV., natural and legitimate heir to the throne of France.
Chapter 9 · To-morrow, after to-morrow
Aramis Philippe Louis XIV Mazarin Anne of Austria
To-morrow, after to-morrow--from the very first, regal phantom, living shade of Louis XIV., you will sit upon his throne, whence the will of Heaven, confided in execution to the arm of man, will have hurled him, without hope of return.
Chapter 9 · 📍 [[Bas-Poitou]]
There are a thousand pistoles in this bag, monseigneur--more, far more, than sufficient to purchase the whole marsh of which I have spoken; more than enough to live there as many years as you have days to live; more than enough to constitute you the richest, the freest, and the happiest man in the country.
Chapter 11 · 📍 [[Vaux-le-Vicomte]]
Fouquet could well afford to purchase trees to ornament his park, since he had bought up three villages and their appurtenances
Chapter 11 · 📍 [[Vaux-le-Vicomte]] · that morning
while Fouquet, who had only that morning arrived, walked all through the palace with a calm, observant glance, in order to give his last orders
Chapter 11 · 📍 [[Melun]]
His majesty was entering Melun with his long train of carriages and cavaliers.
Chapter 12 · 📍 [[Melun]]
The result was that, through the captain’s arrangements, the king, on arriving at Melun, saw himself at the head of both the musketeers and Swiss guards, as well as a picket of the French guards.
Chapter 12 · 📍 [[Melun]] · When this little army appeared before Melun
When this little army appeared before Melun, the chief magistrates came out to meet the king, and to present him with the keys of the city, and invited him to enter the Hotel de Ville, in order to partake of the wine of honor.
Chapter 12 · 📍 [[Vaux]] · this evening
That is indeed a very sensible suggestion. We will go to see a friend as friends; the gentlemen who are with the carriages can go slowly: but we who are mounted will ride on.
Chapter 12 · 📍 [[Vaux]] · towards seven o’clock in the evening
towards seven o’clock in the evening, without announcing his arrival by the din of trumpets, and without even his advanced guard, without out-riders or musketeers, the king presented himself before the gate of Vaux, where Fouquet, who had been informed of his royal guest’s approach, had been waiting for the last half-hour
Chapter 13 · 📍 [[Vaux]] · When the supper was finished
Louis XIV Louise D’Artagnan Fouquet
the king, having met La Vallière in one of the winding paths of the wood, was able to press her hand and say, “I love you,” without any one overhearing him except M. d’Artagnan, who followed, and M. Fouquet, who preceded him.
Chapter 14 · 📍 [[Blue Chamber]]
this separation of the two associates removed his last suspicion
Chapter 15 · 📍 [[park]] · The evening came
Louis XIV Colbert D’Artagnan Fouquet
Speak, speak, Colbert; and when you have related it, leave us, and go and inform M. d’Artagnan that I have certain orders to give him.
Chapter 16 · 📍 [[Vaux]] · by to-morrow morning
“Take care of M. Fouquet, until I shall have made up my mind by to-morrow morning.”
Chapter 17
The padded door of which was shut and locked immediately upon him and his guide.
Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Bastile]] · about three o’clock in the morning
Baisemeaux shut the door upon him, turned the key twice in the lock, and then returned to Aramis.
Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
Aramis seized hold of it, coolly tore it in four pieces, held them to the lamp, and burnt them.
Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
And you will hand over this Seldon to me, whose liberation is authorized by this order.
Chapter 17 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
there is now, I repeat, sentence of death pronounced against all those who may allow him to communicate with any one else but me or the king himself.
Chapter 18 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
When the young king, stupefied and crushed in every sense and feeling, found himself led to a cell in the Bastile
Chapter 18 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
Louis knew that he was alive and in full possession of his natural senses. “A prisoner!” he cried.
Chapter 18 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
Louis XIV jailer
And the jailer did what he said, quitted the prisoner, and closed the door, leaving the king more astounded, more wretched, more isolated than ever.
Chapter 18 · 📍 [[Bastile]] · Two hours afterwards
Two hours afterwards he could not be recognized as a king, a gentleman, a man, a human being; he might rather be called a madman
Chapter 19 · 📍 [[Vaux]]
how best to execute the king’s directions in a proper manner
Chapter 19 · as soon as it was shut
as soon as it was shut, flew to his keys, opened two or three secret doors concealed in various articles of furniture in the room, looked vainly for certain papers
Chapter 19 · 📍 [[Vaux]]
M. d’Herblay must be desperately fond of walking out at night, and composing verses by moonlight in the park of Vaux
Chapter 20 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
the royal bed, which had ascended again after having deposited its prisoner in the secret depths of the subterranean passage
Chapter 20 · this morning
you will be good enough, monsieur le capitaine des mousquetaires, to allow those only to pass into the king’s room this morning who have special permission.
Chapter 22 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
before the subaltern had time to shut the gate, Fouquet sprang through it, and ran forward in spite of the soldier
Chapter 22 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
Come with me to the keep, monseigneur, you shall see Marchiali.
Chapter 22 · 📍 [[Bastile]]
He paused on the staircase, snatching the bunch of keys from Baisemeaux
Chapter 24 · 📍 [[Vaux]] · In the meantime
everybody, family, officers, servants, had not the least suspicion of his identity
Chapter 24 · this time
Anne of Austria Louis XIV Philippe
As to Anne of Austria, struck suddenly in head and heart with fell remorse, she lost her equilibrium.
Chapter 24 · without more hesitation
he walked straight up to Philippe, on whose shoulder he laid his hand, saying, “Monsieur, you are my prisoner!”
Chapter 24 · 📍 [[Ile Sainte-Marguerite]]
M. d’Artagnan will conduct the prisoner to the Ile Sainte-Marguerite.
Chapter 26 · at this moment
I have conspired against the king; that conspiracy has failed, and, at this moment, I am doubtless pursued.
Chapter 27 · 📍 [[Gigelli]]
The king is sending me to make conquests among the Arabs.
Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Africa]] · in two days
in two days I shall be far from Paris; in a fortnight I shall be far from France, where I shall never be seen again.
Chapter 28 · 📍 [[Toulon]] · to-morrow, or the day after
That is all. Adieu! I set out to-morrow, or the day after, for Toulon.
Chapter 29 · 📍 [[Fontainebleau]]
A little house at Fontainebleau, with something like twenty acres of land round it.
Chapter 29 · 📍 [[Toulon]]
Athos, by following with his eye the pins and holes, saw that D’Artagnan had taken the direction of the south, and gone as far as the Mediterranean, towards Toulon.
Chapter 30 · 📍 [[Paris]]
The duke, likewise, was making his inventory; that is to say, he was distributing to his friends everything of value he had in his house.
Chapter 30 · 📍 [[Paris]]
Here is your commission,” said the prince to Raoul. “I had prepared it, reckoning upon you. You will go before me as far as Antibes.
Chapter 30 · 📍 [[Paris]] · in a fortnight at the very latest
All these barges and lighters must be in attendance to form an escort and carry my provisions. The army must be prepared to embark in a fortnight at the very latest.
Chapter 31 · 📍 [[Sainte-Marguerite’s]]
“D’Artagnan!” replied the two gentlemen. “Recover arms! Mordioux!” cried the captain to the soldiers. “I was sure I could not be mistaken!”
Chapter 31 · 📍 [[Sainte-Marguerite’s]]
D’Artagnan took it out of his hands, effacing the characters with the point of his sword.
Chapter 31 · 📍 [[Sainte-Marguerite’s]]
“You are Spaniards--you do not understand a word of French,” said the captain, eagerly, to his friends in a low voice. “Well!” replied he, addressing the governor, “I was right; these gentlemen are two Spanish captains with whom I was acquainted at Ypres, last year; they don’t know a word of French.”
Chapter 32 · 📍 [[Sainte-Marguerite]]
but because the king is not willing that the secret of his family should transpire among the people, and cover with shame the executioners of the son of Louis XIII.
Chapter 32
To procure the happiness of once more telling you I love you, I commit the baseness of writing to you; and to punish myself for that baseness, I die.
Chapter 32 · 📍 [[fort]]
Philippe M. de Saint-Mars Athos D’Artagnan
Call me neither monsieur nor monseigneur,
Chapter 33 · 📍 [[Paris]]
return, then, immediately to Paris, and join me at the Louvre.”
Chapter 33 · 📍 [[Sainte-Marguerite]] · that same night
D’Artagnan parted from his friend that same night
Chapter 33 · 📍 [[Toulon]] · the next morning at daybreak
Raoul Monsieur de Beaufort Athos
paternally, tenderly, very much as Porthos might have done, he took Raoul in his arms and placed him in the boat
Chapter 34 · 📍 [[Nantes]] · this evening--to-morrow--to-morrow evening
I have sent for you, monsieur le capitaine, to desire you to go and prepare my lodgings at Nantes.
Chapter 34 · 📍 [[Nantes]]
Louis XIV D’Artagnan M. de Lyonne M. Letellier M. de Brienne Fouquet
At the castle of Nantes, which I hear is very ill arranged, you will adopt the practice of placing musketeers at the door of each of the principal dignitaries I shall take with me.
Chapter 34 · 📍 [[Nantes]]
Louis XIV D’Artagnan M. de Gesvres
Be sure that your musketeers are placed before his guards arrive.
Chapter 34
No, monsieur; on that of M. Fouquet. D’Artagnan was surprised, but he took the order, which was in the king’s own writing, and was for two hundred pistoles.
Chapter 35
the captain, to whom the two hundred pistoles were brought, was about to take his leave
Chapter 35 · 📍 [[Nantes]] · This very evening
Fouquet Pelisson Madame Fouquet Madame Belliere La Fontaine
I will do so,” replied Fouquet.
Chapter 35 · 📍 [[Nantes]] · in the meantime
Fouquet Gourville Pelisson Madame Fouquet Madame Belliere
The surintendant, dragged along by some, carried by others, was shut up in his carriage. Gourville took the reins, and mounted the box.
Chapter 36 · very recently
Duchesse de Chevreuse Colbert Anne of Austria Fouquet
the queen-mother has conceived a bitter hatred for all those who have participated, in one fashion or another, in the discovery of this secret, and M. Fouquet I believe is one of these.
Chapter 36 · 📍 [[Belle-Ile-en-Mer]]
Duchesse de Chevreuse Colbert Anne of Austria Aramis
An order is given for it.
Chapter 36 · 📍 [[Belle-Ile-en-Mer]]
Duchesse de Chevreuse Colbert Aramis Fouquet
the place shall be besieged, and he will be taken.
Chapter 36 · dating from this instant
Duchesse de Chevreuse Colbert Aramis
dating from this instant, we have formed a solid alliance, that is, you and I
Chapter 37 · 📍 [[Nantes]] · during the night
the musketeers, newly arrived, with Monsieur d’Artagnan, their captain, and quartered in the castle
Chapter 38 · 📍 [[Nantes]]
D’Artagnan Louis XIV Fouquet M. de Gesvres
The king commanded me to set out for Nantes, it is true; and to say nothing about it to M. de Gesvres.
Chapter 38 · 📍 [[Nantes]]
To forbid all horses or boats to leave Nantes, without a pass, signed by the king.
Chapter 38
Fouquet heaved a last sigh, climbed with difficulty into his carriage, so great was his weakness, and went to the castle, escorted by D’Artagnan
Chapter 39 · 📍 [[castle of Nantes]]
Something is being contrived against you. Perhaps they will not dare to carry it out at the castle; it will be on your return home. The house is already surrounded by musketeers. Do not enter. A white horse is in waiting for you behind the esplanade!
Chapter 39
You will arrest him in my name, and will shut him up in a carriage.
Chapter 40 · 📍 [[Nantes]]
there is but one Fouquet, a financier, to ride thus in open day upon a white horse; there is no one but the lord of Belle-Isle who would make his escape towards the sea
Chapter 40 · 📍 [[Nantes]]
D’Artagnan Fouquet Madame Belliere Pelisson
The carriage rolled through Nantes, and took the route to Angers.
Chapter 41
I have given him one of my brigadiers, the most stupid I could find among my musketeers, in order that the prisoner might have a chance of escaping.
Chapter 41 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle-en-Mer]] · A quarter of an hour after
to blow up the fortress of Belle-Isle, in case of resistance, with power of life and death over all the inhabitants or refugees
Chapter 41 · 📍 [[Paimboeuf]]
D’Artagnan assembled the royal army, embarked it at Paimboeuf, and set sail, without the loss of an unnecessary minute.
Chapter 42 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
“And do you mean seriously to say you are not tired of Belle-Isle a little, and that you would not prefer the comforts of your dwelling--of your episcopal palace, at Vannes? Come, confess.” “No,” replied Aramis, without daring to look at Porthos. “Let us stay where we are, then,” said his friend, with a sigh, which, in spite of the efforts he made to restrain it, escaped his echoing breast. “Let us remain!--let us remain! And yet,” added he, “and yet, if we seriously wished, but that decidedly--if we had a fixed idea, one firmly taken, to return to France, and there were not boats--” “Have you remarked another thing, my friend--that is, since the disappearance of our barks, during the last two days’ absence of fishermen, not a single small boat has landed on the shores of the isle?”
Chapter 42 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]] · It was night
It was night when one of these vessels, which had created such a sensation among the inhabitants of Belle-Isle, dropped anchor within cannon shot of the place.
Chapter 42
Well! monseigneur, within a short league we were captured by a chasse maree belonging to the king.
Chapter 42 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]] · the day before yesterday
“Order of the king to take Belle-Isle; or to put the garrison to the sword, if they resist; order to make prisoners of all the men of the garrison; signed, D’ARTAGNAN, who, the day before yesterday, arrested M. Fouquet, for the purpose of his being sent to the Bastile.”
Chapter 42 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
“Porthos,” said he, “have the alarm sounded.” “The alarm! do you imagine such a thing?” “Yes, and let the cannoniers mount their batteries, the artillerymen be at their pieces, and be particularly watchful of the coast batteries.”
Chapter 42 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
“And will tell him that we beg he will himself come into the island.” “Ah! I comprehend!” said Porthos. “Yes, monseigneur,” replied Jonathan; “but if the captain should refuse to come to Belle-Isle?” “If he refuses, as we have cannon, we will make use of them.”
Chapter 43 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
The king wants you to be taken, and he will take you.
Chapter 43 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
We must remain at Belle-Isle, said Aramis, resolutely; and I assure you, for my part, I will not surrender easily.
Chapter 43 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
Converse with your friends, and do not despise me, monsieur, for doing this for your sake
Chapter 43 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]] · the day before yesterday
since I arrested M. Fouquet the day before yesterday.
Chapter 43
Prohibition to M. d’Artagnan to assemble any council whatever, or to deliberate in any way before Belle-Isle be surrendered and the prisoners shot.
Chapter 44 · 📍 [[France]] · From the moment M. d’Artagnan shall have manifested the desire of giving in his resignation
From the moment M. d’Artagnan shall have manifested the desire of giving in his resignation, he shall no longer be reckoned leader of the expedition, and every officer placed under his orders shall be held to no longer obey him. Moreover, the said Monsieur d’Artagnan, having lost that quality of leader of the army sent against Belle-Isle, shall set out immediately for France, accompanied by the officer who will have remitted the message to him, and who will consider him a prisoner for whom he is answerable.
Chapter 44 · When you are gone
When you are gone, monsieur,” replied the commander of the fleet, “it is to me the command of the whole is committed.
Chapter 44 · 📍 [[France]]
And he painfully subsided into the little boat, which started, favored by wind and tide, for the coast of France.
Chapter 45 · within twelve hours
D’Artagnan is going to give in his resignation to the king, and during the confusion that will result from his absence, we will get away
Chapter 45 · one day
No; his name was Antoine. Well! he was about my age, when, setting out one day for the chase, he felt his legs weak, the man who had never known what weakness was before. What was the meaning of that fatigue, my friend? Nothing good, as you will see; for having set out, complaining still of weakness of the legs, he met a wild boar, which made head against him; he missed him with his arquebuse, and was ripped up by the beast and died immediately.
Chapter 45 · One evening
My father was as strong again as I am. He was a rough soldier, under Henry III. and Henry IV.; his name was not Antoine, but Gaspard, the same as M. de Coligny. Always on horseback, he had never known what lassitude was. One evening, as he rose from table, his legs failed him.
Chapter 45
Porthos bent over the stair of the mole, and seized by the nape of the neck one of the officers of the royal army who was waiting to embark till all his people should be in the boat.
Chapter 46
D’Artagnan Biscarrat Aramis Porthos
He gave, without having any fear of compromising himself, all the details imaginable of the resignation and departure of D’Artagnan.
Chapter 47 · 📍 [[Locmaria]]
In two well-closed coffers, placed beneath the benches of the prow and the poop, Aramis found bread, biscuit, dried fruits, a quarter of bacon, a good provision of water in leathern bottles; the whole forming rations sufficient for people who did not mean to quit the coast, and would be able to revictual, if necessity commanded.
Chapter 48 · 📍 [[grotto]]
I shall go as I am, captain,” said Biscarrat, “for I do not go to kill, I go to be killed.
Chapter 49 · 📍 [[grotto of Locmaria]]
At the third shock the stone gave way, and oscillated for a minute.
Chapter 49 · 📍 [[grotto of Locmaria]]
Then the formidable lever rose ten times in ten seconds, and made ten corpses.
Chapter 49 · 📍 [[grotto of Locmaria]]
A second after, the corpse of the captain dropped close to the extinguished torch, and added another body to the heap of dead which blocked up the passage.
Chapter 50
a barrel of powder weighing from seventy to eighty pounds, to which he had just attached a fuse.
Chapter 50
The barrel, hurled a distance of thirty feet, cleared the barricade of dead bodies, and fell amidst a group of shrieking soldiers
Chapter 50
Shrieks, imprecations, human life, dead bodies--all were engulfed in one terrific crash.
Chapter 50
the enormous rock sank down, pressed by those others which sank in from the sides, and, as it were, swallowed up Porthos in a sepulcher of badly jointed stones.
Chapter 51 · At last
Aramis Yves Louis Constant de Pressigny
Aramis made a sign with his head. Yves waved a white cloth at the end of a gaff.
Chapter 51
Aramis Yves Louis Constant de Pressigny
Your lives are safe, my friends!” cried he, “all but the Chevalier d’Herblay.
Chapter 51
Aramis Louis Constant de Pressigny
Without a word Aramis then raised his hand to the eyes of the commander and showed him the collet of a ring he wore on the ring-finger of his left hand. And while making this sign Aramis, draped in cold and haughty majesty, had the air of an emperor giving his hand to be kissed. The commandant, who for a moment had raised his head, bowed a second time with marks of the most profound respect.
Chapter 51 · 📍 [[Corunna]] · Five minutes after
Louis Constant de Pressigny Aramis
Five minutes after, the commander called the second lieutenant, who returned immediately, ordering the head to be put towards Corunna.
Chapter 52 · 📍 [[castle of Nantes]] · about seven o’clock in the morning
D’Artagnan found M. de Gesvres, who stopped him politely, telling him not to speak too loud and disturb the king.
Chapter 52 · 📍 [[castle of Nantes]] · at half-past nine
M. de Brienne reminded D’Artagnan that the king would not see any one at meal-time.
Chapter 52 · 📍 [[castle of Nantes]]
He simply answered, ‘’Tis well,’” replied Lyonne.
Chapter 52 · 📍 [[Vannes]] · during the night
he took his pistols, put his money into a large leather purse, sent for his horses from the castle-stables, and gave orders that would ensure their reaching Vannes during the night.
Chapter 52 · 📍 [[hostelry]] · at eight o’clock in the evening
D’Artagnan M. de Gesvres Louis XIV
M. de Gesvres appeared, at the head of twelve guards, in front of the hostelry.
Chapter 52 · 📍 [[castle of Nantes]]
D’Artagnan Louis XIV M. de Gesvres
Gesvres made D’Artagnan pass in first, and took him straight to the cabinet where Louis was waiting for his captain of the musketeers
Chapter 52 · 📍 [[Nantes]]
the report was quickly spread throughout the city that monsieur le capitaine of the musketeers had been arrested by order of the king.
Chapter 52 · 📍 [[castle of Nantes]]
The king had desired Brienne to say, “Hush, messieurs! you disturb the king.”
Chapter 53 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
Louis XIV D’Artagnan Aramis Porthos
A battle has taken place at Belle-Isle.
Chapter 53
I will remain here because I have been accustomed for thirty years to go and take the orderly word of the king
Chapter 53 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]]
Well! then, go and take it to them, if it be still in time.
Chapter 53 · 📍 [[Belle-Isle]] · To-morrow
And with a heart swelling with joy, he rushed out of the castle on his way to Belle-Isle.
Chapter 54 · 📍 [[Locmaria]]
Yes, I knew that M. du Vallon had buried himself beneath the rocks of Locmaria;
Chapter 54 · 📍 [[Bayonne]]
I knew that M. d’Herblay had taken one of my vessels with its crew, and had compelled it to convey him to Bayonne.
Chapter 54 · 📍 [[Paris]]
Louis XIV Pelisson Gourville M. Jean de la Fontaine Madame Fouquet
We come humbly to ask your majesty,” replied Pelisson, upon whom emotion was fast gaining, “to permit us, without incurring the displeasure of your majesty, to lend to Madame Fouquet two thousand pistoles collected among the old friends of her husband, in order that the widow may not stand in need of the necessaries of life.”
Chapter 54 · 📍 [[Paris]]
I give you the leave of absence you must want to put the affairs of your friend, the late M. du Vallon, in order.
Chapter 55 · 📍 [[Pierrefonds]] · that day
On condition that M. le Vicomte de Bragelonne do give to M. le Chevalier d’Artagnan, captain of the king’s musketeers, whatever the said Chevalier d’Artagnan may demand of my property.
Chapter 55 · 📍 [[Pierrefonds]] · that day
I leave to my intendant Mousqueton all of my clothes, of city, war, or chase, to the number of forty-seven suits
Chapter 55 · after the reading
But D’Artagnan was mistaken. Mousqueton was dead!
Chapter 56 · in a week
Athos had become an old man in a week, from the moment at which he lost the comfort of his later youth.
Chapter 56 · At daybreak
And Athos, seized with a mortal sweat, fainted in his bed, without any other cause than weakness.
Chapter 57 · as midnight struck
The physician, seeing the incontestable improvement, returned to Blois, after having ordered some prescriptions, and declared that the comte was saved.
Chapter 57 · 📍 [[Gigelli]]
when he saw the white horse of M. de Beaufort, with his head beaten to pieces, in the first ranks of the dead
Chapter 58
he had just found dead him to whom he came to report the news of the death of Porthos
Chapter 59 · 📍 [[Gigelli]] · In the morning
In the morning,” said the prince’s secretary, “monseigneur commanded the attack.
Chapter 59 · 📍 [[the little mountain]] · At five o’clock
At five o’clock we were victorious at all points; the enemy had abandoned his positions, and M. le duc ordered the white flag to be planted on the summit of the little mountain.
Chapter 59 · 📍 [[the village]]
All the village--all the neighborhood--were filled with grieving neighbors relating to each other the double catastrophe, and making preparations for the funeral.
Chapter 60 · 📍 [[London]]
Henrietta Charles II Louis XIV
Madame set out for London, where she applied herself so earnestly to make her brother, Charles II., acquire a taste for the political counsels of Mademoiselle de Keroualle, that the alliance between England and France was signed
Chapter 60
Louis XIV Chevalier de Lorraine
The king recalled M. de Guiche, and banished M. le Chevalier de Lorraine
Chapter 60 · At this moment
The king commands me to inform you that he has nominated you marechal of France, as a reward for your magnificent services
Chapter 60 · At this moment
a ball from the city crushed the coffret in the arms of the officer, struck D’Artagnan full in the chest, and knocked him down