The three musketeers

Introduction/Jacques Le Clercq

Author's preface: Wherein it is proved that despite their names ending in-os and-is, the heroes of the story we are about to relate have nothing mythological about them

Three gifts of monsieur d'Artagnan the elder

Antechamber of monsieur de Treville

Audience

Athos and his shoulder, of Porthos and his baldric, and of aramis and his handkerchief

His majesty's musketeers and the cardinal's guards

His majesty king Louis Xlll

Home life of the musketeers

Concerning a court intrigue

D'Artagnan to the fore

Concerning a mousetrap in the seventeenth century

In which the plot thickens

George Villiers, duke of Buckingham

Monsieur Bonacieux

Man of Meung

Men of law and men of the sword

Wherein monsieur Pierre Seguier, chancellor of France and keeper of the seals, looks more than once for a bell to ring as lustily as he was wont to do of yore

Monsieur Bonacieux and his lady

Lover and husband

Plan of campaign

journey

Lady Clark

In which their majesties dance la Merlaison, a favorite ballet of the king's

Rendezvous

Lodge

What happened to Porthos

Aramis and his thesis

Athos and his wife

Return

Of the hunt for campaign outfits

Milady

Englishmen and Frenchmen

Dinner at the house of an attorney-at-law

Soubrette and her mistress

Concerning the respective outfits of Aramis and Porthos

At night all cats are gray

Drea ms of vengeance

Milady's secret

How Athos without lifting a finger procured his equipment for the campaign

Vision

Wherein d'Artagnan meets his eminence and milady speeds him off to war

Siege of la Rochelle

Anjou wine and its salubrious virtues

At the sign of the red dovecote utility of stovepipes

Husband and wife

Bastion Saint-Bervais

Council of the musketeers

Family affair

Fatality

Intimate

Conversation between brother and sister

Officer out on a stroll

Captivity: First day

Captivity: Second day

Captivity: Third day

Captivity: Fourth day

Captivity: Fifth day

How milady employed the technique of classical tragedy to prepare a modern one

Escape That occurred at Portsmouth on august 23, 1628

What was happening in France

What occurred at the convent of the Carmelite nuns in Bethune

Two varieties of demons

Wine and water

Man in the red cloak

Day of judgment

How judgment was accomplished

Cardinal, his agent and a lieutenant's commission

Epilogue.