Ten Years Later; The Vicomte de Bragelonne + Louise de La Vallière + The Man in the Iron Mask; The Son of Athos
roman/novel, pub:1848-1850, action:1660-1673
The four Musketeers aid in restoring Charles II. of England to his throne. With the son of one of them (the titular hero), they are implicated on opposing sides in the troubles between Fouquet and Louis XIV. Mazarin, Conde, Colbert, Queen Anne of Austria, Queen Henrietta Maria, and General Monk also appear in the story.
This is the third in a trilogy which consists
of three novels: Les Trois Mousquetaires, Vingt Ans Après (Twenty Years After), and Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix Ans Plus Tard (Ten Years Later).
This third novel is often split up into three pieces
when published in English: The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallière, and The Man in the Iron Mask.
Dumas also wrote an essay L'homme au masque de fer in which he proposed that The Man in the Iron Mask was the twin brother of Louis XIV.
Oeuvres/Related Works Mahalin, Paul: Le Filleul d'Aramis (The Godson of Aramis) - Paris, Librairie illustrée, 1896 Mahalin, Paul: Le Fils de Porthos (The Son of Porthos) - Paris, Tresse, 1883. It is a sequel to Le Vicomte de Bragelonne. Available from amazon.com. Dumas père, Alexandre: Louise de La Vallière - Available from amazon.com Louise de la Valliere - New York, A. L. Burt, n.d., The Home Library, bef. 1911 Louise de la Valliere - New York, P. F. Collier & Son, n.d., The Works of Alexandre Dumas in Thirty Volumes (vol. 16), blue cloth, gilt spine Ten Years Later - New York, P. F. Collier & Son, n.d., The Works of Alexandre Dumas in Thirty Volumes (vol. 15), blue cloth, gilt spine Dumas père, Alexandre: The Man in the Iron Mask - Available from amazon.com (movie paperback) Dumas père, Alexandre: The Man in the Iron Mask - Available from amazon.com (paperback) Dumas père, Alexandre: The Man in the Iron Mask - Available from amazon.com (hardcover) Dumas père, Alexandre: The Man in the Iron Mask - Available from amazon.com (cassette) The Man in the Iron Mask - New York, P. F. Collier & Son, n.d., The Works of Alexandre Dumas in Thirty Volumes (vol. 17), blue cloth, gilt spine The Man in the Iron Mask - New York, P. F. Collier & Son, 1902, The Works of Alexandre Dumas in Thirty Volumes (vol. 17), brown cloth, gilt spine Dumas père, Alexandre: The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Available from amazon.com The Vicomte de Bragelonne - New York, P. F. Collier & Son, n.d., The Works of Alexandre Dumas in Thirty Volumes (vol. 14), blue cloth, gilt spine
From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: The final lengthy sequel to "Les Trois Mousquetaires" and "Vingt Ans Après." Maquet collaborated in this romance, and there is some reason for thinking that the final epilogue came from his pen.
A magnificent panorama of the court of the young Louis XIV. Commencing with that monarch's attraction to Marie Mancini and the restoration of Charles II., it closes with the fall of Fouquet and the accession of Madame de Montespan to the position of favourite mistress. Period 1660-1673.
First published serially in "Le Siècle," Oct. 20, 1847 to Jan. 12, 1850.
Original edition : Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, 26 vols., 8vo., 1848-50.
First illustrated edition : Paris, Mulat et Boulanger, 2 vols., large 8vo., with fifty-eight engravings, 1851 (according to Parran; but following the "Trésor du Bibliophile Romantique et Moderne," Paris, Dufour et Mulat, 2 vols., 1851, the first with 35 plates, the second with 25).
Second illustrated edition : Paris, Marescq et Cie., 1 vol., 4to., 1853, with illustrations by J. A. Beaucé, Philippoteaux, etc.
Another edition : Paris, Calmann-Lévy (N.D.), 2 vols., large 4to., with 32 plates by A. de Neuville, and two vignettes.
It occupies six volumes in the current standard Calmann-Lévy edition, three in their illustrated series, and one in their "Musée Littéraire."
In Le Vasseur's "Alexandre Dumas Illustré" it forms the entire Vol. II.
Louis Conard, Paris, announces an edition in six volumes, with woodcuts engraved by V. Dutertre after designs by Fred-Money.
References :— Parran: "Bibliographie d'Alex. Dumas," pp. 56-57.
Simon (Gustave): "Histoire d'une Collaboration: Dumas et Maquet." Glinel: "Alexandre Dumas et Son Œuvre," pp. 418-19.
Motteville (Mme. de): "Mémoires."
Montespan (Mme. de): "Mémoires."
Saint-Simon: "Mémoires."
La Fayette (Mme. de): "Histoire d'Henriette d'Angleterre."
Touchard-Lafosse: "Chroniques de l'Œil-de-Boeuf."
Lair: "Louise de la Vallière."
"Le Petit Homme Rouge:" "The Favourites of Louis XIV."
Stevenson (R. L.): "Memories and Portraits,"—"A Gossip on a Novel of Dumas."
Principal English Translations :—
"The Vicomte de Bragelonne;" London, Routledge, 2 vols., 1857. This edition has been frequently reprinted, and it is now in their "Aramis Edition." They have also issued it in a variety of forms, in some instances with all the volumes under the usual title, in others: Vol. I., "Ten Years Later;" Vol. II., "The Vicomte de Bragelonne;" then again as Vol. I., "Ten Years Later;" Vol. II., "Louise de la Vallière."
"A State Secret ; or, the Iron Mask," dramatised by F. W. Hayes from an episode in Dumas' historical novel, "The Vicomte de Bragelonne," 1880.
London, Walter Scott, 3 vols., illustrated by F. T. Merrill, translated by H. L, Williams, 1893. Under three successive titles : "The Vicomte de Bragelonne," "Louise de la Vallière" and "The Man in the Iron Mask." These, too, have been frequently reprinted.
"The Vicomte de Bragelonne;" London, Dent, 6 vols., cr. 8vo., illustrated, 1894. Reprinted in 4 vols. 1906 and 1926.
"The Vicomte de Bragelonne;" London, Dicks, 61 illustrations, 8vo., sewed, pp. 672, 1896.
London, Methuen, 2 vols., sewed, pp. 476 and 512, 1904. Another edition, cloth, with coloured plates by F. Adams, 1905. These two volumes bore respectively as sub-titles : "Louise de la Vallière" and "The Man in the Iron Mask."
London, Collins, 3 vols., 12mo.. illustrated, 1911; titled successively : "The Vicomte de Bragelonne," "Louise de la Vallière" and "The Man in the Iron Mask."
"The Vicomte de Bragelonne;" London, Nelson, 4 vols., 12mo., 1915.
From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: (CLIX.) MADRIGAL DE SAINT-AIGNAN. Chapter CXCIV., rhyming a, b, b, a.
(CLX.) Chapter CCXII., a couplet.
