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Librarian note: An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here. Au mois de mai 1660, le vicomte de Bragelonne arrive au château de Blois, porteur d’une lettre annonçant à Monsieur, le frère de Louis XIII, l’arrivée de Louis XIV et de la cour. La nuit suivante, un homme se présente au monarque : c’est le roi d’Angleterre Charles II, dépouillé de son royaume, qui vient demander au roi de France de l’argent ou des hommes afin de reconquérir sa couronne. Mazarin refuse. Sur le chemin du retour, Charles II rend visite à Athos qui lui propose son aide... Publié de 1847 à 1850, Le Vicomte de Bragelonne achève la trilogie ouverte par Les Trois Mousquetaires et poursuivie avec Vingt ans après. Mais ce troisième volet est placé sous le signe du désenchantement et de la mélancolie : les repères dont disposaient les mousquetaires pour régler leur action vacillent dans un monde qui a changé.
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This note regards Alexandre Dumas, père, the father of Alexandre Dumas, fils (son). For the son, see Alexandre Dumas fils. Alexandre Dumas, père (French for "father", akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. Dumas also wrote plays and magazine articles, and was a prolific correspondent. Dumas was of Haitian descent and mixed-race. His father, General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) to Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie, a French nobleman, and Marie-Cessette Dumas, a black slave. At age 14 Thomas-Alexandre was taken by his father to France, where he was educated in a military academy and entered the military for what became an illustrious career. Dumas' father's aristocratic rank helped young Alexandre Dumas acquire work with Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, then as a writer, finding early success. He became one of the leading authors of the French Romantic Movement, in Paris. Excerpted from Wikipedia.
