The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas, 1846 Contents 1. Two Old Friends 2. A Bargain Which Cannot be Made 3. The Skin of the Bear 4. Interview With the Queen Mother 5. Two Friends 6. How Jean de la Fontaine Wrote His First Tale 7. La Fontaine as a Negotiator 8. Madame de Belliere’s Plate and Diamonds 9. M. de Mazarin’s Receipt 10. M. Colbert’s Rough Draught 11. Return to the Vicomte de Bragelonne 12. Bragelonne Continues His Inquiries 13. Two Jealousies 14. A Domiciliary Visit 15. Porthos’s Plan of Action 16. The Change of Residence, Trap-door, and Portrait 17. Rival Politics 18. Rival Lovers 19. King and Nobility 20. After the Storm 21. Heu! Miser! 22. Wounds Upon Wounds 23. What Raoul Had Guessed 24. Three Guests at Supper 25. What Took Place at the Louvre 26. Political Rivals 27. In Which Porthos is Convinced 28. M. de Baisemeaux’s Society 29. The Prisoner 30. How Mouston Had Become Fatter 31. Who Messire Jean Percerin Was 32. The Samples 33. The “Bourgeois Gentilhomme” 34. The Beehive, the Bees, and the Honey 35. Another Supper at the Bastille 36. The General of the Order 37. The Tempter 38. Crown and Tiara 39. The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte 40. The Wine of Melun 41. Nectar and Ambrosia 42. A Gascon, and a Gascon and a Half 43. Colbert 44. Jealousy 45. High Treason 46. A Night in the Bastille 47. The Shadow of Fouquet 48. The Morning 49. The King’s Friend 50. How the Countersign was Respected at the Bastille 51. The King’s Gratitude 52. The False King 53. Porthos Thinks He is Pursuing a Duchy 54. The Last Adieux 55. M. de Beaufort 56. Preparations for Departure 57. Planchet’s Inventory 58. The Inventory of M. de Beaufort 59. The Silver Plate 60. Captive and Jailers 61. Promises 62. Among Women 63. The Last Supper 64. In the Carriage of M. Colbert 65. The Two Lighters 66. Friendly Advice 67. How the King Played His Little Part 68. The White Horse and the Black Horse 69. The Squirrel Falls and the Adder Flies 70. Belle-Isle-en-Mer 71. The Explanations of Aramis 72. The Ideas of the King and the Ideas of d’Artagnan 73. The Ancestors of Porthos 74. The Son of Biscarrat 75. The Grotto of Locmaria 76. The Grotto 77. An Homeric Song 78. The Death of a Titan 79. The Epitaph of Porthos 80. The Round of M. de Gesvres 81. King Louis XIV 82. The Friends of M. Fouquet 83. Porthos’s Will 84. The Old Age of Athos 85. The Vision of Athos 86. The Angel of Death 87. The Bulletin 88. The Last Canto of the Poem Epilogue * Epilogue * The Death of D’Artagnan