"The Three Musketeers The Three Musketeers ( ) is a historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. Situated between 1625 and 1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age – Athos, Porthos and Aramis, ""the three inseparables,"" as these are called – and gets involved in affairs of the state and"
"the Three Musketeers"" – were written and published after Dumas's death. d'Artagnan does not appear in the first novel, which, although written by Paul Mahalin, was published under the pen name ""Alexandre Dumas"" and is still sold as such. The second novel was supposedly based on one of Dumas' plays. The last two were written by H. Bedford-Jones. There is an additional book published by Alexandre Dumas entitled """". The d'Artagnan Romances The d'Artagnan Romances are a set of three novels by Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), telling the story of the 17th-century musketeer d'Artagnan. Dumas based the character and attributes of"
"historical research; Dumas then expanded the plot, removing some characters, including new ones, and imbuing the story with his unmistakable style. ""The Three Musketeers"" was first published in serial form in the newspaper ""Le Siècle"" between March and July 1844. In 1625 France, d'Artagnan (a poor young nobleman) leaves his family in Gascony and travels to Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard. At a house in Meung-sur-Loire, an older man derides d'Artagnan's horse. Insulted, d'Artagnan demands a duel. But the older man's companions instead beat d'Artagnan unconscious with a cooking pot and a metal tong that breaks his"
"during the reign of Louis XI (1461–1483). Alexander Dumas's ""The Three Musketeers"" (1844) is another famous French historical romance. Set in 1625, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although D'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age: Athos, Porthos and Aramis and gets involved in affairs of the state and court. In genre, ""The Three Musketeers"" is primarily a historical and adventure novel."
"Auguste Maquet Auguste Maquet (; 13 September 1813, Paris – 8 January 1888) was a French author, best known as the chief collaborator of French novelist Alexandre Dumas, père, co-writing such works as ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" and ""The Three Musketeers"". Maquet was born in Paris in 1813. He studied at the Lycée Charlemagne where he became a professor at the age of 18. Trained as a historian, he turned to literature, and became close with such literary figures as Théophile Gautier and Gérard de Nerval. Through Nerval, he became acquainted with the already famous Dumas in 1838. Dumas"
"The Three Musketeers (short story) ""The Three Musketeers"" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling which introduces three fictional British soldiers serving in India in the later nineteenth century: the privates Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris. These characters appear in many early Kipling stories. ""The Three Musketeers"" was first published in the ""Civil and Military Gazette"" on 11 March 1887. It appeared in book form in ""Plain Tales from the Hills"" (1888). Narrated by the three privates—mostly Mulvaney, the loquacious Irishman, and Ortheris —""The Three Musketeers"" tells the story of how the three contrive not only to 'protest' (like the junior"
"for budgetary reasons. Following the first Bourbon Restoration, the Musketeers were reestablished on 6 July 1814 along with the other military units of the former Royal Household. These expensive and aristocratic regiments proved ineffective when Napoleon returned from Elba, mostly dispersing though some accompanied Louis XVIII into brief exile. Following the second restoration of the Monarchy, the Musketeers were finally disbanded on 1 January 1816. Decades later, starting in 1844, this group was the subject of the now-famous serial publication ""The Three Musketeers"", in the magazine ""Le Siècle"" between March and July 1844. The author, Alexandre Dumas, père, based his"
"Several of these books are inventions of Perez-Reverte. The works of Alexandre Dumas, père, the source of the eponymous title, influence nearly every element of the plot. The books mentioned are as follows: Also mentioned are works by Dumas' ghostwriter Auguste Maquet, including in particular, ""Le Bonhomme Buvat or the Conspiracy of Cellamare"", published in ""Le Siècle"", the magazine in which ""The Three Musketeers"" originally appeared between March and July 1844. Other works mentioned are: Occultist works published by the fictional historical author Aristide Torchia in Venice: Other occultist writings in novel ""The Club Dumas"": Books written by the character"
"to that of the Comte de la Fère, the pleasure or the ennui he may experience. This being understood, let us proceed with our story. Following Dumas's lead in his preface, Eugène d'Auriac (de la Bibliothèque Royale) in 1847 was able to write the biography of d'Artagnan: ""d'Artagnan, Capitaine-Lieutenant des Mousquetaires– Sa vie aventureuse– Ses duels– etc."" based on Courtilz de Sandras. ""The Three Musketeers"" was written in collaboration with Auguste Maquet, who also worked with Dumas on its sequels (""Twenty Years After"" and """"), as well as ""The Count of Monte Cristo."" Maquet would suggest plot outlines after doing"
"(1848). In each of the novels, Paris is the setting and a major participant. Alexandre Dumas published ""The Three Musketeers"" (1844); ""Twenty Years After"" (1845); ""The Vicomte de Bragelonne"" (1847); ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" (1845–1846); ""La Reine Margot"" (1845); ""La Dame de Monsoreau"" (1846); and many more novels, in addition to many theatrical versions of his novels for the Paris stage. Stendhal published his first major novel, ""Le Rouge et le Noir"", in 1830, and his second, ""La Chartreuse de Parme"", in 1839. Other major Paris writers who produced important works included George Sand, Alfred de Musset, and Alphonse"
"Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas (, ; ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie ; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas (French for 'father'), was a French writer. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including ""The Count of Monte Cristo"", ""The Three Musketeers"", ""Twenty Years After"", and """". His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, ""The Knight of Sainte-Hermine,"""
"The Return of the Musketeers The Return of the Musketeers is a 1989 film adaptation loosely based on the novel ""Twenty Years After"" (1845) by Alexandre Dumas. It is the third Musketeers film directed by Richard Lester, following 1973's ""The Three Musketeers"" and 1974's ""The Four Musketeers"". Like the other two films, the screenplay was written by George MacDonald Fraser. The character of Mordaunt, Milady de Winter's son in the original novel, is replaced by Milady's daughter, called Justine de Winter. Several cast members from the first two reprised their roles in this one. Jean-Pierre Cassel, who played Louis XIII"
"Milady de Winter Milady de Winter, often referred to as simply Milady, is a fictional character in the novel ""The Three Musketeers"" (1844) by Alexandre Dumas, père, set in 1625 France. She is a spy for Cardinal Richelieu and is one of the dominant antagonists of the story. Her role in the first part of the book is to seduce the English Prime Minister, the Duke of Buckingham, who is also the secret lover of Queen Anne of France. Hoping to blackmail the Queen, Richelieu orders Milady to steal two diamonds from a set of matched studs given to Buckingham"
"The Three Musketeers (1953 film) The Three Musketeers () is a 1953 film based on the French novel of the same name. This adaptation is one of five films director André Hunebelle and screen writer Michel Audiard achieved together. Georges Marchal portrayed d'Artagnan. In real life he was clearly older (born in 1920) than this character, but Marchal happened to be one of the most famous actors of European cinema in these days. With hindsight this adaptation might be regarded as one of his lesser important appearances because later on he even starred for Luis Buñuel. Young d'Artagnan leaves his"
"established Jean Marais as a fixture for this genre. The Three Musketeers (1953 film) The Three Musketeers () is a 1953 film based on the French novel of the same name. This adaptation is one of five films director André Hunebelle and screen writer Michel Audiard achieved together. Georges Marchal portrayed d'Artagnan. In real life he was clearly older (born in 1920) than this character, but Marchal happened to be one of the most famous actors of European cinema in these days. With hindsight this adaptation might be regarded as one of his lesser important appearances because later on he"
"visited the scene of the siege in 1627. The siege was depicted in detail by numerous artists, such as Jacques Callot. Around the time of the siege, a series of propaganda coins were cast to describe the stakes of the siege, and then commemorate the Royal victory. These coins depict the siege in symbolic ways, showing the city and the English effort in a poor light, while putting an advantageous light on Royal might. The siege forms the historical background for the novel ""The Three Musketeers"" by Alexandre Dumas, père and the book's numerous adaptations to stage, screen, comics and"
"court. In genre, ""The Three Musketeers"" is primarily a historical and adventure novel. However, Dumas also frequently works into the plot various injustices, abuses, and absurdities of the old regime, giving the novel an additional political aspect at a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce. The story was first serialised from March to July 1844, during the July Monarchy, four years before the French Revolution of 1848 violently established the Second Republic. The story of d'Artagnan is continued in ""Twenty Years After"" and ""."" In the very first sentences of his preface, Alexandre"
"(""The Three Musketeers""), which paints him as in love with Anne of Austria as well as dealing with the siege of La Rochelle and his assassination by Felton. He is described: In the 1973 two-film, Anglo-American adaptation of the book — ""The Three Musketeers"" and ""The Four Musketeers"" — Buckingham also has a prominent role as an ally of the main characters. The second film includes his assassination by Felton, but (following the original novel in this) depicts the killing as being orchestrated by the fictional Milady de Winter, an agent of the principal villain, Cardinal Richelieu. Taylor Caldwell's ""The"
"in the genus ""Schistura"" which are each named after one of the Three Musketeers, ""S. aramis"" and ""S. porthos"". Athos (character) Athos, Count de la Fère, is a fictional character in the novels ""The Three Musketeers"", ""Twenty Years After"", and ""The Vicomte de Bragelonne"" by Alexandre Dumas, père. He is a highly fictionalised version of the historical musketeer Armand de Sillègue d'Athos d'Autevielle (1615–1644). In ""The Three Musketeers"", he and the other two musketeers, Porthos and Aramis, are friends of the novel's protagonist, d'Artagnan. He has a mysterious past connecting him with the villain of the novel, Milady de Winter."
"Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan Charles Ogier de Batz de Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan (; 1611 – 25 June 1673) served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard and died at the Siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War. A fictionalized account of his life by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras formed the basis for the d'Artagnan Romances of Alexandre Dumas, most famously including ""The Three Musketeers"" (1844). The heavily fictionalized version of d'Artagnan featured in Dumas's works and their subsequent screen adaptations is now far more widely known than the real historical figure. D'Artagnan was born"
"Monte-Cristo, and to collect books, manuscripts, autographs and other materials on Dumas. Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas (, ; ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie ; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas (French for 'father'), was a French writer. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including ""The Count of Monte Cristo"", ""The Three Musketeers"", ""Twenty Years After"", and """". His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth"
"the duc de Coislin. The chancellor's great-grandson, Henri Charles du Cambout de Coislin, bishop of Metz, commissioned Bernard de Montfaucon, a Benedictine of the Congregation of St Maur, to prepare a catalogue of the Greek manuscripts. with commentaries. This work was published in folio 1715, as ""Bibliotheca Coisliniana, olim Segueriana..."". The greater part of the printed books were destroyed by fire, in the abbey of St Germain-des-Prés, in 1794. Séguier is a minor character in ""The Three Musketeers"". Pierre Séguier Pierre Séguier (; 28 May 1588 – 28 January 1672) was a French statesman, chancellor of France from 1635. Séguier"
"Athos (character) Athos, Count de la Fère, is a fictional character in the novels ""The Three Musketeers"", ""Twenty Years After"", and ""The Vicomte de Bragelonne"" by Alexandre Dumas, père. He is a highly fictionalised version of the historical musketeer Armand de Sillègue d'Athos d'Autevielle (1615–1644). In ""The Three Musketeers"", he and the other two musketeers, Porthos and Aramis, are friends of the novel's protagonist, d'Artagnan. He has a mysterious past connecting him with the villain of the novel, Milady de Winter. The oldest by some years, Athos is described as noble and handsome but also very secretive, drowning his secret"
"The Three Musketeers (1933 serial) The Three Musketeers is a 1933 American Pre-Code film serial directed by Armand Schaeffer and Colbert Clark and produced by Mascot Pictures. It was loosely based on Dumas' novel ""The Three Musketeers"", with the musketeers becoming three soldiers in the French Foreign Legion, and d'Artagnan being reconfigured as Lt. Tom Wayne (played by John Wayne), a pilot in the United States military. Raymond Hatton, Francis X. Bushman, Jr. and Jack Mulhall play the three soldiers. In 1946, Favorite Films Corporation edited the serial into a feature film called ""Desert Command"". In the deserts of Northern"
"The Three Musketeers in Africa The Three Musketeers in Africa is a novel written by a Hungarian novelist Jenő Rejtő with the pen name P. Howard. It tells the story of Csülök, Senki Alfonz (Alfonz Nobody) and Tuskó Hopkins, the three legionaries of the French Foreign Legion. They have to deliver an important letter to Marquis De Surenne and protect a young lady called Yvonne Barre through the desert and lead her to a safe place. Although these three men are outlaws, they try to do everything to help people who are in need. This is a very exciting book"
"the author of ""The Three Musketeers"" and other famous novels, to the Panthéon. Draped in a blue-velvet cloth inscribed with the Musketeers' motto: """"Un pour tous, tous pour un"""" (""""One for all, all for one,"""") the remains had been transported from their original interment site in the Cimetière de Villers-Cotterêts in Aisne, France. In his speech, President Jacques Chirac stated that an injustice was being corrected with the proper honouring of one of France's greatest authors. In January 2007, President Jacques Chirac unveiled a plaque in the Panthéon to more than 2,600 people recognised as Righteous Among the Nations by"
"Comte de Troisville Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Troisville (or Tresville) (1598 at Oloron-Sainte-Marie – 8 May 1672 at Trois-Villes) was a French officer. He was fictionalized under the name Monsieur de Tréville in Alexandre Dumas's novel ""The Three Musketeers"". Du Peyrer was not from aristocratic stock, but of recent nobility. It was his father, Jean du Peyrer, who introduced the name de Trois-villes or Tréville into the family. In 1607 he bought the region of Trois-Villes which effectively brought him nobility, according to the customs of the Basque Country at the time. This purchase also allowed the elder Du"
"regardless of any loss of life and limb, honor and property, we would stand firm, with all for one and one for all... nor would we be subservient, but rather we would loyally help and protect each other to the utmost, against all difficulties."" One for all, and all for one (Un pour tous, tous pour un; also inverted to ""All for one, and one for all"") is a motto traditionally associated with the titular heroes of the novel ""The Three Musketeers"" written by Alexandre Dumas père, first published in 1844. In the novel, it was the motto of a"
"Dumas indicated as his source ""Mémoires de Monsieur d'Artagnan"" (1700), a historical novel by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras, printed by Pierre Rouge in Amsterdam, which Dumas discovered during his research for his history of Louis XIV. It was in this book, he said, that d'Artagnan relates his first visit to M. de Tréville, captain of the Musketeers, where in the antechamber, he met three young Béarnese with the names Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. This information struck the imagination of Dumas so much—he tells us—that he continued his investigation and finally encountered once more the names of the three musketeers"
"Aramis René d'Herblay, alias Aramis, is a fictional character in the novels ""The Three Musketeers"", ""Twenty Years After"" and ""The Vicomte de Bragelonne"" by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and the other two musketeers, Athos and Porthos, are friends of the novels' protagonist, d'Artagnan. The fictional Aramis is loosely based on the historical musketeer Henri d'Aramitz. Aramis loves and courts women, which fits well with the opinions of the time regarding Jesuits and abbots. He is portrayed as constantly ambitious and unsatisfied: as a musketeer, he yearns to become an abbé; but when an abbé he wishes for the life of"
"Peyrer the right to be considered a gentleman and to sit upon the council of gentlemen in the viscountcy of Soule. Comte de Troisville Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Troisville (or Tresville) (1598 at Oloron-Sainte-Marie – 8 May 1672 at Trois-Villes) was a French officer. He was fictionalized under the name Monsieur de Tréville in Alexandre Dumas's novel ""The Three Musketeers"". Du Peyrer was not from aristocratic stock, but of recent nobility. It was his father, Jean du Peyrer, who introduced the name de Trois-villes or Tréville into the family. In 1607 he bought the region of Trois-Villes which effectively"
"With the exception of her real name (Countess de Winter), her origins never were revealed. It was hinted that 'only one man' knows of her past. In the movie ""The Return of the Musketeers"", Kim Cattrall plays Milady's daughter Justine de Winter as a female version of Mordaunt. Milady de Winter Milady de Winter, often referred to as simply Milady, is a fictional character in the novel ""The Three Musketeers"" (1844) by Alexandre Dumas, père, set in 1625 France. She is a spy for Cardinal Richelieu and is one of the dominant antagonists of the story. Her role in the"
"volume, a novel would often be consumed by readers in installments over a period as long as a year, with the authors and periodicals often responding to audience reaction. In France, Alexandre Dumas and Eugène Sue were masters of the serialized genre. ""The Three Musketeers"" and ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" each appeared as a ""feuilleton"". ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" was stretched out to 139 installments. Eugène Sue's serial novel ""Le Juif errant"" increased circulation of ""Le Constitutionnel"" from 3,600 to 25,000. Production in book form soon followed and serialization was one of the main reasons that nineteenth-century novels"