Court of Daggers

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Table of Contents

 

Contents

Introduction

Chapter I - A Passion

Chapter II - D’Artagnan’s Lesson

Chapter III - The King

Chapter IV - The Houses of Monsieur Fouquet

Chapter V - Abbot Fouquet

Chapter VI - Wine for Monsieur de La Fontaine

Chapter VII - The Gallery of Saint-Mandé

Chapter VIII - The Epicureans

Chapter IX - A Quarter of an Hour’s Delay

Chapter X - Plan of Battle

Chapter XI - The Cabaret of Our Lady’s Portrait

Chapter XII - “Long Live Colbert!”

Chapter XIII - How a Diamond that Belonged to Monsieur d’Emerys Found its Way into d’Artagnan’s Hands

Chapter XIV - Concerning the Notable Differences d’Artagnan Found Between the Intendant and the Superintendent

Chapter XV - Philosophy of the Heart and Mind

Chapter XVI - Travel

Chapter XVII - How d’Artagnan Met a Poet Who’d become a Printer to Make Sure his Poems got Printed

Chapter XVIII - D’Artagnan Continues His Investigations

Chapter XIX - In Which the Reader will Doubtless Be as Astonished as d’Artagnan to Meet an Old Acquaintance

Chapter XX - In Which d’Artagnan’s Ideas, Though Cloudy at First, Begin to Clear Up

Chapter XXI - A Procession at Vannes

Chapter XXII - The Grandeur of the Bishop of Vannes

Chapter XXIII - Porthos Begins to be Sorry He’d Brought d’Artagnan With Him

Chapter XXIV - In Which d’Artagnan Rides, Porthos Snores, and Aramis Counsels

Chapter XXV - Monsieur Fouquet Takes Action

Chapter XXVI - In Which d’Artagnan Finally Gets His Hands on his Captain’s Commission

Chapter XXVII - A Lover and His Mistress

Chapter XXVIII - In Which the True Heroine of This Story Finally Appears

Chapter XXIX - Malicorne and Manicamp

Chapter XXX - Manicamp and Malicorne

Chapter XXXI - The Courtyard of the Hôtel de Grammont

Chapter XXXII - The Portrait of Madame

Chapter XXXIII - Le Havre

Chapter XXXIV - On the Sea

Chapter XXXV - The Pavilions

Chapter XXXVI - The Night

Chapter XXXVII - From Le Havre to Paris

Chapter XXXVIII - What the Chevalier de Lorraine Thought of Madame

Chapter XXXIX - Mademoiselle de Montalais’s Surprise

Chapter XL - The Consent of Athos

Chapter XLI - Monsieur is Jealous of the Duke of Buckingham

Chapter XLII - “Forever!”

Chapter XLIII - In Which His Majesty Louis XIV Finds Mademoiselle de La Vallière neither Rich Enough nor Pretty Enough for a Gentleman of the Rank of the Vicomte de Bragelonne

Chapter XLIV - An Invitation to Cross Swords in the Surf

Historical Characters

Notes on the Text of Court of Daggers

Acknowledgments