The Vicomte de Bragleonne

by Alexandre Dumas

This is the first of a four part series of etexts from Project Gutenberg that make up the third book of Dumas' D'Artagnan Romances. This covers the first 75 chapters of that third book which takes place in the year 1660. The next etext is Ten Years Later, the third is Louise de la Valliere, and the last is The Man in the Iron Mask.

Like The Three Musketeers, and Twenty Years After which came before it, this is a classic adventure story set in the French court. This time, D'Artagnan finds himself in the services of the fledgling king Louis the XIV, acting as a spy and (as usual) becoming involved in various court intrigues.

It's good fun.