Dumas 'requested permission' to reprint the manuscript permission was granted: That much is true – the rest is fiction: He finally found the names of the three musketeers in a manuscript titled Mémoire de M. de Tréville, captain of the Musketeers, and how, in the antechamber, he encountered three young Béarnese with the names Athos, Porthos and Aramis, made such an impression on him that he continued to investigate. According to Dumas, the incident where d'Artagnan tells of his first visit to M. In the preface, he tells of being inspired by a scene in 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. The story of d'Artagnan is continued in Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.ĭumas presents his novel as one of a series of recovered manuscripts, turning the origins of his romance into a little drama of its own. The story was first serialised from March to July 1844, during the July Monarchy, four years before the French Revolution of 1848 established the Second Republic.

However, Dumas frequently portrays various injustices, abuses and absurdities of the Ancien Régime, giving the novel an additional political significance at the time of its publication, a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce. The Three Musketeers is primarily a historical and adventure novel. Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he is befriended by three of the most formidable musketeers of the age – Athos, Porthos and Aramis, 'the three musketeers' or 'the three inseparables' – and becomes involved in affairs of state and at court. Set between 16, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers of the Guard. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice. The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires, ) is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas.

Les Trois Mousquetaires, by Alexandre Dumas, in French.

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