The Viscount of Bragelonne

the Viscount of Bragelonne (the son of the musketeer Athos) is the last shutter of the trilogy of the Musketeers, writing of 1848 with 1850 by Alexandre Dumas, after a préparution in the newspaper the Century , in 1847, under the title the Musketeers, trilogy , indicating that “ the Century began the October 20th the publication of the third and last part, to the Viscount of Bragelonne . ” It thus makes following the Three Musketeers and Twenty Years after. The novel depicts the court of the young person Louis XIV and proposes a very romantic solution with the mystery of the Homme to the iron mask.

Synopsis

The action proceeds between 1660 and 1673

In the Viscount of Bragelonne , the heroes of the first two books aged much. D' Artagnan, become the captain of the musketeers, youngest of the four, is from now on fifty years old. Porthos, is to him baron since preceding volume. Aramis is increasingly powerful: he becomes bishop of Vannes, then general of the Jésuite S.

The tone of this third novel is melancholic person: one feels to come the end. Treasons, disillusions and intrigues form integral part of a company whose fundamental value is not any more the honor and who is nothing any more but the shade of that which preceded it. Raoul, the Viscount of Bragelonne, the son of Athos, dies in the war while going to the load at the time of a combat. It is almost about a suicide due to the sorrow which would have caused the treason of its promised in marriage, Louise of Vallière, become the mistress of the king. The news of its death involves his/her Athos father in the tomb. Porthos, the giant, trusting Aramis, joined the rebellion against the king and dies crushed under enormous blocks of rock at the time of the attack of the forces of the king with Belle-Île-en-Mer. Lastly, D' Artagnan dies the last, killed by a ball on the battle field, holding with the hand the stick of marshal who comes finally, but too late, to reward its bravery and its honesty.

Aramis remains alone: most ambiguous of the musketeers is the only one with knowing to adapt to the world of intrigues in which it became Master. Indeed, the novel depicts the decline of the old nobility, represented by the musketeers, and the advent of a nobility at court which the young person Louis XIV intends to control. One will not gain any more from now on the attention of the sovereign by armed exploits, but by the intrigue and the flattery.

In addition, it is interesting to see throughout the 2.500 pages of the book that at any time the four friends do not find themselves together, as if Dumas did not dare any more to join together in the same part Aramis and the three others; as if he considered that Aramis could have contaminated the pure heart of Athos, Porthos and of Artagnan. The sentence of Artagnan is besides without ambiguity: “Athos, Porthos, goodbye! Aramis, forever, good-bye! ”

Characters

  • the triangle in love:
    • Raoul de Bragelonne: It was an young man from twenty-four to twenty-five years, large, slim, bearing with grace on its shoulders charming it military costume of the time. Of one with its fine and nervous hands it stopped its horse in the middle of the court, and other raised the hat with long feathers which ombrageait its serious and naive aspect at the same time. Bragelonne is the son of the count of Fère, Athos, and of the duchess of Chevreuse. At the beginning of the novel it is with the service of the Grand Cop and comes to Blois to request the hospitality of Gaston of Orleans for the king and his continuation who travel towards the Spanish border where waits Marie-Therese of Austria, been engaged of Louis XIV.
    • Louise of Vallière: this beautiful young girl fair, with the blue pupils, the white shoulders , is the girl of Mr. de Saint Rémy, the intendant of the duke of Orleans. In love with Raoul, a friend of childhood, it forgets it as soon as it crosses the king. However, it then has care to warn the young man whom it does not divide any more the feelings that he tests for her. She can then dedicate to the king a single and absolute love. Raoul, raised by the count of Fère in the respect of values which appear from now on out of date like honesty and fidelity (it refuses to serve Condé when this one is opposed to the king), will have the broken heart of it. Vallière is the genuine heroin of the novel, positive female character, contrary to his friend, the Montalais.
    • Louis XIV: the king of size, hardly had five were small feet two inches; but its youth still made excuse this defect, repurchased besides by a large nobility of all its movements and by a certain address in all the exercises of the body.
  • the musketeers

Film adaptations

The history of Raoul de Bragelonne inspired the directors little, on the other hand the episode of the iron mask gave place to many adapatations.

Influence

Alexandre Dumas being an emblematic figure of the authors of French-speaking fiction, it was logical that the hero éponyme novel lends his name to the editions Bragelonne which are devoted to the literature of the imaginary one.

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Internal bonds

External bonds

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