The Vicomte de Bragelonne

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le
Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas,
père. It is the third and last of the d'Artagnan Romances following The Three
Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form
between 1847 and 1850. In the English translations the 268 chapters of this
large volume are usually subdivided into three, but sometimes four or even five
individual books. In three-volume English editions, the three volumes are titled
"The Vicomte de Bragelonne", "Louise de la Vallière", and "The Man in the Iron
Mask." Each of these volumes is roughly the length of the original The Three
Musketeers. In four-volume editions, the names of the volumes are kept,
except that "Louise de la Vallière" and "The Man in the Iron Mask" are pushed
down from second and third to third and fourth, with "Ten Years Later" becoming
the second volume. There are usually no volume-specific names in five-volume
editions. French academic Jean-Yves Tadié has argued that the beginning of King
Louis XIV's personal rule is the novel's real subject.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.