Shadow of the Bastille

Episode 45

Shadow of the Bastille

Being the Fourth Part of Le Vicomte de Bragelonne

By Alexandre Dumas

Edited and Translated by Lawrence Ellsworth

In Last Week’s Episode

The Comte de Saint-Aignan reported to King Louis XIV that Raoul de Bragelonne had challenged him to a duel, and together they work out why—jealousy over the king’s liaison with Louise de La Vallière—an…