The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 1: The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 1: The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, credited to Alexandre Dumas, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 1: The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas. (Translated by William Robson.) Read in English by John Van Stan Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. The first begins in 1660, ten years after Volume 2, with d’Artagnan as Lieutenant of the King’s Musketeers. In this post, he is very near to achieving his dream (becoming Captain) and even nearer to his King, being young Louis XIV’s personal guard. Seeing first-hand how powerless the child King was, d’Artagnan resigns his illustrious, but dull, post to turn his sharp wit and sword toward another ambitious aim: restoration of the English monarchy. To the joy of France, Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum that pulls at the ill-fated ambitions of the rich and powerful, Nicolas Fouquet. To combat Fouquet’s ambitions and wrench the nation back from the brink of bankruptcy, young Louis XIV takes the Cardinal’s dying advice and leagues with the economic and sociopolitical reformist, Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Unfortunately, “The Inseparables” again find each other on different sides of the power struggle: Aramis and Porthos with Fouquet, but d’Artagnan and Athos with the King and Colbert. As d’Artagnan advises King Louis XIV, “The reign of Mazarin is over, but that of the financiers is begun. They have the money; your majesty will not often see much of it. To live under the paw of these hungry wolves is hard.” - Summary by jvanstan

Recording facts

• Recording title: The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 1: The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later
• Author credits: Alexandre Dumas
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 104
• Listed recording duration: 31:29:59

Catalogue topics

• Athos
• Aramis
• Porthos
• cardinal mazarin
• queen anne of austria
• fronde
• louis xiv athos
• jean-baptiste colbert

Opening tracks: first 24 of 104

1. 001 - The Letter — 19:55
2. 002 - The Messenger — 17:01
3. 003 - The Interview — 17:35
4. 004 - Father and Son — 12:35
5. 005 - In which Something will be said of Cropoli—of Cropoli and of a Great Unknown Painter — 13:50
6. 006 - The Unkown — 14:50
7. 007 - Parry — 14:20
8. 008 - What his Majesty King Louis XIV. was at the Age of Twenty-Two — 25:25
9. 009 - In which the Unknown of the Hostelry of Les Medicis loses his Incognito — 26:55
10. 010 - The Arithmetic of M. de Mazarin — 20:50
11. 011 - Mazarin's Policy — 23:45
12. 012 - The King and the Lieutenant — 11:35
13. 013 - Mary de Mancini — 13:55
14. 014 - In which the King and the Lieutenant each give Proofs of Memory — 24:10
15. 015 - The Proscribed — 13:50
16. 016 - "Remember!" — 26:45
17. 017 - In which Aramis is sought and only Bazin is found — 21:15
18. 018 - In which D'Artagnan seeks Porthose and only finds Mousqueton — 20:06
19. 019 - What D'Artagnan went to Paris for — 11:30
20. 020 - Of the Society which was formed in the Rue des Lombards, at the Sign of the Pilon d'Or — 25:35
21. 021 - In which D'Artagnan prepares to travel for the Firm of Planchet and Company — 18:50
22. 022 - D'Artagnan travels for the House of Planchet and Company — 15:55
23. 023 - In which the Author, very unwillingly, is forced to write a Little History — 29:50
24. 024 - The Treasure — 18:05

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