Il visconte di Bragelonne (Trilogie des mousquetaires #3)

The Vicomte de Bragelonne (or Ten Years Later)
Anonymous translation, 1852
This novel is the third and last of the d’Artagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. Appearing first in serial format between 1847 and 1850, it is a huge novel, comprised of 268 chapters, which are usually divided into three or four parts in English translations, including the famous titles Louise de la Vallière and The Man in the Iron Mask. Though there are many digressions, the protagonists of the novel are once more d’Artagnan and the original musketeer characters, who continue their daredevil adventures, immersed in political intrigue and hilarious comedy. The action takes place between 1660 and 1667 and concerns the transformation of Louis XIV from a weak boy king, dominated by his ministers and mother, to the Sun King in complete control of the French state.