Louise de la Vallière
by Alexandre Dumas
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Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter I. Malaga
- Chapter II. A Letter from M. Baisemeaux
- Chapter III. In Which the Reader will be Delighted to Find that Porthos Has Lost Nothing of His Muscularity
- Chapter IV. The Rat and the Cheese
- Chapter V. Planchet’s Country-House
- Chapter VI. Showing What Could Be Seen from Planchet’s House
- Chapter VII. How Porthos, Truchen, and Planchet Parted with Each Other on Friendly Terms, Thanks to D’Artagnan
- Chapter VIII. The Presentation of Porthos at Court
- Chapter IX. Explanations
- Chapter X. Madame and De Guiche
- Chapter XI. Montalais and Malicorne
- Chapter XII. How De Wardes Was Received at Court
- Chapter XIII. The Combat
- Chapter XIV. The King’s Supper
- Chapter XV. After Supper
- Chapter XVI. Showing in What Way D’Artagnan Discharged the Mission with Which the King Had Intrusted Him
- Chapter XVII. The Encounter
- Chapter XVIII. The Physician
- Chapter XIX. Wherein D’Artagnan Perceives that It Was He Who Was Mistaken, and Manicamp Who Was Right
- Chapter XX. Showing the Advantage of Having Two Strings to One’s Bow
- Chapter XXI. M. Malicorne the Keeper of the Records of France
- Chapter XXII. The Journey
- Chapter XXIII. Triumfeminate
- Chapter XXIV. The First Quarrel
- Chapter XXV. Despair
- Chapter XXVI. The Flight
- Chapter XXVII. Showing How Louis, on His Part, Had Passed the Time from Ten to Half-Past Twelve at Night
- Chapter XXVIII. The Ambassadors
- Chapter XXIX. Chaillot
- Chapter XXX. Madame
- Chapter XXXI. Mademoiselle de la Vallière’s Pocket-Handkerchief
- Chapter XXXII. Which Treats of Gardeners, of Ladders, and Maids of Honor
- Chapter XXXIII. Which Treats of Carpentry Operations, and Furnishes Details upon the Mode of Constructing Staircases
- Chapter XXXIV. The Promenade by Torchlight
- Chapter XXXV. The Apparition
- Chapter XXXVI. The Portrait
- Chapter XXXVII. Hampton Court
- Chapter XXXVIII. The Courier from Madame
- Chapter XXXIX. Saint-Aignan Follows Malicorne’s Advice
- Chapter XL: Two Old Friends
- Chapter XLI. Wherein May Be Seen that a Bargain Which Cannot Be Made with One Person, Can Be Carried Out with Another
- Chapter XLII. The Skin of the Bear
- Chapter XLIII. An Interview with the Queen-Mother
- Chapter XLIV. Two Friends
- Chapter XLV. How Jean de La Fontaine Came to Write His First Tale
- Chapter XLVI. La Fontaine in the Character of a Negotiator
- Chapter XLVII. Madame de Belliere’s Plate and Diamonds
- Chapter XLVIII. M. de Mazarin’s Receipt
- Chapter XLIX. Monsieur Colbert’s Rough Draft
- Chapter L: In Which the Author Thinks It Is High Time to Return to the Vicomte de Bragelonne
- Chapter LI. Bragelonne Continues His Inquiries
- Chapter LII. Two Jealousies
- Chapter LIII. A Domiciliary Visit
- Chapter LIV. Porthos’s Plan of Action
- Chapter LV. The Change of Residence, the Trap-Door, and the Portrait
- Chapter LVI. Rivals in Politics
- Chapter LVII. Rivals in Love
- Chapter LVIII. King and Noble
- Chapter LIX. After the Storm
- Chapter LX. Heu! Miser!
- Chapter LXI. Wounds within Wounds
- Chapter LXII. What Raoul Had Guessed
- Chapter LXIII. Three Guests Astonished to Find Themselves at Supper Together
- Chapter LXIV. What Took Place at the Louvre During the Supper at the Bastile
- Chapter LXV. Political Rivals
- Chapter LXVI. In Which Porthos Is Convinced without Having Understood Anything
- Chapter LXVII. M. de Baisemeaux’s “Society.”