The Three Musketeers: It is a historical adventure story published in French by Alexandre Dumas in 1844. It belongs to the swashbuckler genre, which features chivalry sworders fighting for justice.
The Three Musketeers matches the achievements of a modern man named D’Artagnan, a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore D’Artagnan when he leaves home to come to Paris in the hopes of joining the Musketeers of the Guard. It is set between 1625 and 1628. Despite his inability to join this exclusive corps right once, d’Artagnan befriends three of the age’s most fearsome musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, dubbed “the three musketeers” or “the three inseparable” and gets involved in state and court matters.
The Three Musketeers is a traditional and venture story, first and foremost. On the other hand, Dumas regularly depicts numerous injustices, excesses, and absurdities of the Ancien Regime, giving the novel added political relevance at the time of its publication, when the conflict in France between republicans and monarchists was still raging.
Dumas portrays his work as a succession of unearthed manuscripts, turning the story’s origins into mini-dramas. In the prologue, he describes how a passage in Memoires de Monsieur D’Artagnan 1700, a historical book by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras, printed by Pierre Rouge in Amsterdam, inspired him when he was researching Louis XIV. According to Dumas, d’Artagnan’s initial visit to M. de Treville, captain of the Musketeers, and how, in the antechamber, he saw three young Bearnese with the names Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, left such an effect on him that he proceeded to explore.
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