58 - Le Vicomte de Bragelonne - Tome II - Collection Alexandre Dumas: Texte intégral

by Alexandre Dumas

Collection Alexandre Dumas

58 - Le Vicomte de Bragelonne - Tome II


En 1660, d'Artagnan et Athos participent, chacun à sa façon, à la restauration de Charles II sur le trône d'Angleterre. L'année suivante commence en France le règne personnel de Louis XIV, qui engage d'Artagnan dans sa lutte contre le surintendant Fouquet.
Ce dernier est manipulé par Aramis, devenu évêque de Vannes et général des Jésuites, qui a entraîné Porthos dans ses aventures. Aramis ne vise à rien de moins qu'à devenir le maître de la France et de l'Église. Lui et Porthos enlèvent Louis XIV et le remplacent par son frère jumeau, Philippe, qui jusque-là était détenu secrètement à la Bastille. La magnanimité de Fouquet fait échouer le complot.
D'Artagnan conduit Philippe à sa nouvelle prison puis arrête Fouquet. L'armée royale prend d'assaut Belle-Île, la forteresse du surintendant, où se sont retranchés Aramis et Porthos.


Cette œuvre comprend six tomes.

Texte intégral.


Collection Alexandre Dumas :

1 - Récits fantastiques
2 - Contes à dire dans une diligence
3 - Histoire d'un casse-noisette et autres contes
4 - La bouillie de la comtesse Berthe et autres contes
5 - Les drames de la mer
6 - Aventures de Lyderic, Un coup de feu et autres nouvelles
7 - Blanche de Beaulieu et autres histoires
8 - Le château d'Eppstein
9 - Le Comte de Monte-Cristo - Tome I et II
10 - Le Comte de Monte-Cristo - Tome III et IV
11 - Le Comte de Monte-Cristo - Tome V et VI
12 - Le fils du forçat
13 - Le maître d'armes
14 - Le chevalier d'Harmental - Tome I et II
15 - Le meneur de loups
16 - Les mille et un fantômes
17 - La tulipe noire
18 - Acté
19 - Ammalat-beg
20 - Amaury
21 - Ascanio - Tome I et II
22 - Aventures de John Davys - Tome I et II
23 - Le bâtard de Mauléon - Tome I, II et III
24 - Black
25 - La boule de neige suivi de La colombe
26 - Le capitaine Paul
27 - Le capitaine Pamphile
28 - Le capitaine Richard
29 - Catherine Blum
30 - Le chevalier de Maison-Rouge
31 - Conscience l'innocent
32 - La femme au collier de velours
33 - Les frères corses suivi de Gabriel Lambert
34 - Georges
35 - L'horoscope
36 - Jacquot sans Oreilles suivi de Jane
37 - Les mariages du père Olifus
38 - Mémoires d'une aveugle
39 - Monseigneur Gaston Phoebus suivi de Othon l'archer
40 - Pauline
41 - Un cadet de famille
42 - La princesse Flora suivi de Un courtisan
43 - Une fille du régent

La trilogie des Valois :

44 - La reine Margot - Tome I
45 - La reine Margot - Tome II
46 - La dame de Monsoreau - Tome I
47 - La dame de Monsoreau - Tome II
48 - La dame de Monsoreau - Tome III
49 - Les Quarante-Cinq - Tome I
50 - Les Quarante-Cinq - Tome II
51 - Les Quarante-Cinq - Tome III

La trilogie des mousquetaires :

52 - Les Trois Mousquetaires - Tome I
53 - Les Trois Mousquetaires - Tome II
54 - Les Trois Mousquetaires - Tome III
55 - Vingt ans après - Tome I et II
56 - Vingt ans après - Tome III et IV
57 - Le Vicomte de Bragelonne - Tome I
58 - Le Vicomte de Bragelonne - Tome II
59 - Le Vicomte de Bragelonne - Tome III
60 - Le Vicomte de Bragelonne - Tome IV
61 - Le Vicomte de Bragelonne - Tome V
62 - Le Vicomte de Bragelonne - Tome VI

Genres: Fiction

353 pages, Paperback

Published May 9, 2022

About the author

This note regards Alexandre Dumas, père, the father of Alexandre Dumas, fils (son). For the son, see Alexandre Dumas fils.

Alexandre Dumas père, born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a towering figure of 19th-century French literature whose historical novels and adventure tales earned global renown. Best known for The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and other swashbuckling epics, Dumas crafted stories filled with daring heroes, dramatic twists, and vivid historical backdrops. His works, often serialized and immensely popular with the public, helped shape the modern adventure genre and remain enduring staples of world literature.
Dumas was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a celebrated general in Revolutionary France and the highest-ranking man of African descent in a European army at the time. His father’s early death left the family in poverty, but Dumas’s upbringing was nonetheless marked by strong personal ambition and a deep admiration for his father’s achievements. He moved to Paris as a young man and began his literary career writing for the theatre, quickly rising to prominence in the Romantic movement with successful plays like Henri III et sa cour and Antony.
In the 1840s, Dumas turned increasingly toward prose fiction, particularly serialized novels, which reached vast audiences through French newspapers. His collaboration with Auguste Maquet, a skilled plotter and historian, proved fruitful. While Maquet drafted outlines and conducted research, Dumas infused the narratives with flair, dialogue, and color. The result was a string of literary triumphs, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both published in 1844. These novels exemplified Dumas’s flair for suspenseful pacing, memorable characters, and grand themes of justice, loyalty, and revenge.
The D’Artagnan Romances—The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte of Bragelonne—cemented his fame. They follow the adventures of the titular Gascon hero and his comrades Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, blending historical fact and fiction into richly imagined narratives. The Count of Monte Cristo offered a darker, more introspective tale of betrayal and retribution, with intricate plotting and a deeply philosophical core.
Dumas was also active in journalism and theater. He founded the Théâtre Historique in Paris, which staged dramatizations of his own novels. A prolific and energetic writer, he is estimated to have written or co-written over 100,000 pages of fiction, plays, memoirs, travel books, and essays. He also had a strong interest in food and published a massive culinary encyclopedia, Le Grand Dictionnaire de cuisine, filled with recipes, anecdotes, and reflections on gastronomy.
Despite his enormous success, Dumas was frequently plagued by financial troubles. He led a lavish lifestyle, building the ornate Château de Monte-Cristo near Paris, employing large staffs, and supporting many friends and relatives. His generosity and appetite for life often outpaced his income, leading to mounting debts. Still, his creative drive rarely waned.
Dumas’s mixed-race background was a source of both pride and tension in his life. He was outspoken about his heritage and used his platform to address race and injustice. In his novel Georges, he explored issues of colonialism and identity through a Creole protagonist. Though he encountered racism, he refused to be silenced, famously replying to a racial insult by pointing to his ancestry and achievements with dignity and wit.
Later in life, Dumas continued writing and traveling, spending time in Belgium, Italy, and Russia. He supported nationalist causes, particularly Italian unification, and even founded a newspaper to advocate for Giuseppe Garibaldi. Though his popularity waned somewhat in his final years, his literary legacy grew steadily. He wrote in a style that was accessible, entertaining, and emotionally reso

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