Twenty Years After

The Three Musketeers: Twenty Years After

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Twenty Years After (French: Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of The d'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers (1844) and precedes the 1847–1850 novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne.

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Prologue

The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu

A Nightly Patrol

Dead Animosities

Anne of Austria at the Age of Forty-six

The Gascon and the Italian

D’Artagnan in his Fortieth Year

D'Artagnan is embarrassed, but one of our old acquaintances comes to his aid

Touches upon the Strange Effects a Half-pistole may have

D’Artagnan, Going to a Distance to discover Aramis.

The Abbé D’Herblay

The two Gaspards

Monsieur Porthos du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds

Wealth does not necessarily produce Happiness

Porthos was Discontented with his Condition

Two Angelic Faces

The Castle of Bragelonne

Athos as a Diplomatist

The Duc de Beaufort

Duc de Beaufort amused his Leisure Hours in the Donjon of Vincennes

Grimaud begins his Functions

Pâtés made by the Successor of Father Marteau are described

One of Marie Michon’s Adventures

The Abbé Scarron

Saint Denis

One of the Forty Methods of Escape of the Duc de Beaufort

The timely Arrival of D’Artagnan in Paris

An Adventure on the High Road

The Rencontre

The good man Broussel

Chapitre 30

The Place Royale

The Ferry across the Oise

Skirmishing

The Monk

The Absolution

Grimaud Speaks

On the Eve of Battle

A Dinner in the Old Style

A Letter from Charles the First

Cromwell’s Letter

Henrietta Maria and Mazarin

How, sometimes, the Unhappy mistake Chance for Providence

Uncle and Nephew

Paternal Affection

Another Queen in Want of Help

In which it is proved that first Impulses are oftentimes the best

Te Deum for the Victory of Lens

The Beggar of St. Eustache

The Tower of St. Jacques de la Boucherie

The Riot

The Riot becomes a Revolution

Misfortune refreshes the Memory

The Interview

The Flight

The Carriage of Monsieur le Coadjuteur

How D’Artagnan and Porthos earned by selling Straw

In which we hear Tidings of Aramis

The Scotchman

The Avenger

Oliver Cromwell

Gentlemen

Jesus Seigneur

Noble Natures never lose Courage, nor good Stomachs their Appetites

Respect to Fallen Majesty

D’Artagnan hits on a Plan

The game of lansquenet

London

The Trial

Whitehall

The Workmen

Remember!

The Man in the Mask

Cromwell’s House

Conversational

The Skiff “Lightning.”

Port Wine

End of the Port Wine Mystery

Fatality

How Mousqueton had a Narrow Escape of being eaten

The Return

The Ambassadors

The three Lieutenants of the Generalissimo

The Battle of Charenton

The Road to Picardy

The Gratitude of Anne of Austria

Cardinal Mazarin as King

Precautions

Sagacity and Strength

Sagacity and Strength—Continued

Strength and Sagacity

Strength and Sagacity - Continued

The Oubliettes of Cardinal Mazarin

Conferences

Thinking that Porthos will be at last a Baron, and D’Artagnan a Captain

Shows how with Threat and Pen more is effected than by the Sword

Shows how with Threat and Pen more is effected than by the Sword - continued

Difficult for Kings to return to the Capitals of their Kingdoms

Difficult for Kings to return to the Capitals of their Kingdoms - continued

Conclusion

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