Ten Years Later
by Alexandre Dumas
D'Artagnan, a young swordsman who wants to join the king's musketeers, is involved in court intrigues, international politics, and unfortunate relationships between royal lovers. The book in hand is the second volume of the third series. Louis XIV survived a long time in the age when he was supposed to rule, but the sick Cardinal Mazarin refused to let go of the reins. Meanwhile, king Charles II, who has no country, travels around Europe for help from his ruling friends. While Athos still lived in La Fera, his son Raoul de Bragelonne entered service in the home of M. le Prince. As for Raoul, he looks at an object completely different from his father - his childhood friend Louise de la Vallière, with whom he desperately falls in love. Porthos, now a baron, embarks on a mysterious mission with Aramis, now bishop of Vannes.
