The Man in the Iron Mask

Number of Chapters: 64

Length: 21 hours and 01 minute

Language: English

In this, the last of the Three Musketeers novels, Dumas builds on the true story of a mysterious prisoner held incognito in the French penal system, forced to wear a mask when seen by any but his jailer or his valet. If you have skipped the novels between The Three Musketeers and this, a few notes will bring you into the story:

On one side – Aramis, now a bishop and secretly the Captain-General of the Jesuit Order, who believes he has found a path to a higher honor – the papacy. Monsieur Fouquet, the vastly rich minister of finance, Aramis’ ally. Philippe, the identical twin of King Louis XIV, who grew up in ignorance of his pedigree, and whose surrogate parents were murdered on the king’s order and himself sent into the notorious Paris prison, the Bastille, there held in solitary confinement.

On the other side – King Louis XIV, selected as the twin who would be king by his mother, and who intends that his brother will never challenge him. Monsieur Colbert, first minister, who is jealous of Fouquet and plots his downfall.

Unaligned and in danger of collateral damage – d’Artagnan, now captain of the King’s Musketeers and so the king’s chief defender, who suspects plots running beneath the surface and who is trying to unearth them. Athos, now the Comte (Count) de la Fer and one of the most respected noblemen of France. Raoul, Athos’ son and vicomte (viscount), desperately in love with Mademoiselle de la Valliere, who the king has taken as his mistress. Porthos, grown extremely stout and happy as the Baron du Vallon.

Aramis discovers the hidden Philippe and hatches a plot to substitute him for the sitting king, putting Louis in Philippe’s cell in the Bastille. This even succeeds… for a short while. But Aramis has not reckoned with a man whose loyalty to the throne exceeds his own welfare and who disastrously reverses the plot. Now it is time for the plotters to scurry to cover, there to figure some way to recover their lost ambitions. (Summary written by Mark Smith.)

00 - Introduction (Mark F. Smith)

01a – The Prisoner (Part 1) (Mark F. Smith)

01b – The Prisoner (Part 2) (Mark F. Smith)

02 – How Mouston Had Become Fatter (Mark F. Smith)

03 – Who Messire Percerin Was (Mark F. Smith)

04 – The Patterns (Mark F. Smith)

05 – Where, Probably, Moliere Obtained His First Idea of the Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Mark F. Smith)

06 – The Bee-Hive, the Bees, and the Honey (Mark F. Smith)

07 – Another Supper at the Bastille (Mark F. Smith)

08 – The General of the Order (Mark F. Smith)

09 – The Tempter (Mark F. Smith)

10 – Crown and Tiara (Mark F. Smith)

11 – The Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Mark F. Smith)

12 – The Wine of Melun (Mark F. Smith)

13 – Nectar & Ambrosia (Mark F. Smith)

14 – A Gascon, and a Gascon and a Half (Mark F. Smith)

15 – Colbert (Mark F. Smith)

16 – Jealousy (Mark F. Smith)

17 – High Treason (Mark F. Smith)

18 – A Night at the Bastille (Mark F. Smith)

19 – The Shadow of Monsieur Fouquet (Mark F. Smith)

20 – The Morning (Mark F. Smith)

21 – The King’s Friend (Mark F. Smith)

22 – Showing How the Countersign Was Respected at the Bastille (Mark F. Smith)

23 – The King’s Gratitude (Mark F. Smith)

24 – The False King (Mark F. Smith)

25 – In Which Porthos Thinks He Is Pursuing a Duchy (Mark F. Smith)

26 – The Last Adieux (Mark F. Smith)

27 – Monsieur de Beaufort (Mark F. Smith)

28 – Preparations for Departure (Mark F. Smith)

29 – Planchet’s Inventory (Mark F. Smith)

30 – The Inventory of Monsieur de Beaufort (Mark F. Smith)

31 – The Silver Dish (Mark F. Smith)

32 – Captives and Jailers (Mark F. Smith)

33 – Promises (Mark F. Smith)

34 – Among Women (Mark F. Smith)

35 – The Last Supper (Mark F. Smith)

36 – In Monsieur Colbert’s Carriage (Mark F. Smith)

37 – The Two Lighters (Mark F. Smith)

38 – Friendly Advice (Mark F. Smith)

39 – How the King, Louis XIV, Played His Little Part (Mark F. Smith)

40 – The White Horse and the Black (Mark F. Smith)

41 – In Which the Squirrel Falls, the Adder Flies (Mark F. Smith)

42 – Belle Isle-en-Mer (Mark F. Smith)

43 – Explanations by Aramis (Mark F. Smith)

44 – Result of the Ideas of the King & the Ideas of D’Artagnan (Mark F. Smith)

45 – The Ancestors of Porthos (Mark F. Smith)

46 – The Son of Biscarrat (Mark F. Smith)

47 – The Grotto of Locmaria (Mark F. Smith)

48 – The Grotto (Mark F. Smith)

49 – An Homeric Song (Mark F. Smith)

50 – The Death of a Titan (Mark F. Smith)

51 – Porthos’ Epitaph (Mark F. Smith)

52 – Monsieur de Gesvre’s Round (Mark F. Smith)

53 – Louis XIV (Mark F. Smith)

54 – Monsieur Fouquet’s Friends (Mark F. Smith)

55 – Porthos’ Will (Mark F. Smith)

56 – The Old Age of Athos (Mark F. Smith)

57 – Athos’ Vision (Mark F. Smith)

58 – The Angel of Death (Mark F. Smith)

59 – The Bulletin (Mark F. Smith)

60 – The Last Canto of the Poem (Mark F. Smith)

61a – Epilogue (Part 1) (Mark F. Smith)

61b – Epilogue (Part 2) (Mark F. Smith)

The audiobook The Man in the Iron Mask falls under the genres of Literary Fiction. It is written by Alexandre Dumas.

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