The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre DUMAS (1802 - 1870)

IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis -- inseparable friends who live by the motto, "One for all, and all for one". The Three Musketeers was first published in serial form in the magazine Le Siècle between March and July 1844. Dumas claimed it was based on manuscripts he had discovered in the Bibliothèque Nationale. It was later proven that Dumas had based his work on the book Mémoires de Monsieur D'Artagnan, capitaine lieutenant de la première compagnie des Mousquetaires du Roi (Memoirs of Mister D'Artagnan, Lieutenant Captain of the first company of the King's Musketeers) by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (Cologne, 1700). Dumas' version of the story covers the adventures of D'Artagnan and his friends from 1625 to 1628, as they are involved in intrigues involving the weak King Louis XIII of France, his powerful and cunning advisor Cardinal Richelieu, the beautiful Queen Anne of Austria, her English lover, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and the Siege of La Rochelle. Adding to the intrigue are the mysterious Milady de Winter, and Richelieu's right-hand man, the Comte de Rochefort. (summary from wikipedia) Get Twenty Years After here. Get The Man in the Iron Mask here.


Listen next episodes of The Three Musketeers:
A CONJUGAL SCENE , A FAMILY AFFAIR , A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID , A PROCURATOR'S DINNER , A TERRIBLE VISION , A VISION , ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS , BONACIEUX AT HOME , CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY , CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY , CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY , CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY , CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY , CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER , CONCLUSION , D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN , DREAM OF VENGEANCE , ENGLISH AND FRENCH , Epilogue , ESCAPE , EXECUTION , FATALITY , GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM , HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMODING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURED HIS EQUIPMENT , HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS , IN FRANCE , IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF , LOVER AND HUSBAND , M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL IN ORDER TO RING IT, AS HE DID BEFORE, , MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY , MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD , MILADY'S SECRET , MONSIEUR BONACIEUX , OFFICER , PLAN OF CAMPAIGN , PORTHOS , SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS , THE ANJOU WINE , THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON , THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS , THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE , THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS , THE COUNTESS DE WINTER , THE DROP OF WATER , THE JOURNEY , THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK , THE MAN OF MEUNG , THE PAVILION , THE RENDEZVOUS , THE RETURN , THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE , THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT , THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES , THE WIFE OF ATHOS , TRIAL , TWO VARIETIES OF DEMONS , WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH