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- Readers of "The Three Musketeers" and its more-famous sequels will recall the complex affection Dumas had for His Red Eminence, but it wasn't enough to turn Le Comte de Moret into a success. As Ellsworth relates, the book languished for a century in France, although bad translations and unauthorized sequels flourished in 19th-century America. Then, in what Ellsworth calls “a dramatic event so unlikely that it could have come from the pen of the master himself,” a substantial chunk of Dumas's original handwritten manuscript was found in 1945 in Paris
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I poked around online and found the dates for this book as 1628-1630 here (though source is of uncertain quality, though here cites the same in French). That puts it pretty much directly after Three Musketeers. I'm more interested to see if it actually includes much of the Three Musketeers' characters beyond Richelieu. If it does, I'd be even more surprised it had passed into obscurity without even a Wikipedia page.