The Vicomte de Bragelonne

The Vicomte de 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. In the English translations this large volume is usually subdivided into three, four or even five individual books, with the final volume titled The Man in the Iron Mask. Usually, three volume editions are entitled "The Vicomte de Bragelonne","Louise de la Vallière" and "The Man in the Iron Mask," each volume containing two internal "books" (the novel thus consists of six internal books).

The action takes place between 1660 and 1673. The hero is the young Raoul de Bragelonne, son of the Comte de la Fère, formerly known as Athos.

De Bragelonne is based on the real Raoul de Braguelongue who was in love with Louise de la Vallière, who in turn preferred Louis XIV.

The last part of the novel novel is famous for building its plot upon a hypothesis of the Man in the Iron Mask.