Twenty Years afterwards

Twenty Years after is the continuation that Alexandre Dumas gave to the Three Musketeers . The character of the main characters is developed much more there than in the first book. New characters make their appearance, like Raoul, the Viscount of Bragelonne, the son of Athos, or Mordaunt, the son of MILADY.

History

The action proceeds in the context of the Fronde, between 1648 and 1649. The four heroes and friends of the Three Musketeers aged and from now on are separated by their political ideas: Athos and Aramis is as regards Princes and D' Artagnan succeeds in persuading Porthos to put side of Mazarin. But they end up gathering to come to assistance of Charles Ier from England.

This book contains in its pages much adventures but also an analysis of the political diagram of the time.

First lines

In a room of the Cardinal Palate that we know already, close to a table with corners of vermeil, charged with papers and books, a man had sat the head supported in its two hands. Behind him was a vast chimney, red of fire, and whose ignited firebrands collapsed on broad gilded fire-dogs. The gleam of this hearth lit behind the splendid clothing of this dreamer that the light of a candelabrum charged with candles lit by front. To see this simarre red and these rich person laces, to see this face pale and curved on the meditation, to see the loneliness of this cabinet, the silence of the anterooms, the step measured of the guards on the stage, one had been able to believe that the shade of the cardinal of Richelieu was still in its room. Alas! it was well indeed only the shade of the great man. Weakened France, authority of the king ignored, large become again strong and turbulent ones, the enemy sunken in on this side borders, all testifying that Richelieu was not there any more. But what showed still better than all that than the red simarre were not that of the old cardinal, it was this insulation which seemed, as we said, rather that of a phantom that of alive; they was these empty corridors courtiers, these courses full with guards; it was the feeling scoffer which assembled street and which penetrated through the panes of this room shaken by the breath of a whole city leagued against the minister; they was finally remote noises.

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