Three Musketeers

Author(s)

• Alexandre Dumas

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)

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1. Author's Preface
2. THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
3. THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
4. THE AUDIENCE
5. THE SHOULDER OF ATHOS, THE BALDRIC OF PORTHOS AND THE HANDKERCHIEF OF ARAMIS
6. THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS
7. HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
8. THE INTERIOR OF "THE MUSKETEERS"
9. CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
10. D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF
11. A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
12. IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
13. GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
14. MONSIEUR BONACIEUX
15. THE MAN OF MEUNG
16. MEN OF THE ROBE AND MEN OF THE SWORD
17. M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL IN ORDER TO RING IT, AS HE DID BEFORE,
18. BONACIEUX AT HOME
19. LOVER AND HUSBAND
20. PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
21. THE JOURNEY
22. THE COUNTESS DE WINTER
23. THE BALLET OF LA MERLAISON
24. THE RENDEZVOUS
25. THE PAVILION
26. PORTHOS
27. ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
28. THE WIFE OF ATHOS
29. THE RETURN
30. HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
31. D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN
32. ENGLISH AND FRENCH
33. A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
34. SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
35. IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF
36. A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID
37. DREAM OF VENGEANCE
38. MILADY'S SECRET
39. HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMODING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURED HIS EQUIPMENT
40. A TERRIBLE VISION
41. A VISION
42. THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
43. THE ANJOU WINE
44. THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT
45. THE UTILITY OF STOVEPIPES
46. A CONJUGAL SCENE
47. THE BASTION SAINT-GERVAIS
48. THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
49. A FAMILY AFFAIR
50. FATALITY
51. CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER
52. OFFICER
53. CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY
54. CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY
55. CAPTIVITY: THE THIRD DAY
56. CAPTIVITY: THE FOURTH DAY
57. CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
58. MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY
59. ESCAPE
60. WHAT TOOK PLACE AT PORTSMOUTH
61. IN FRANCE
62. THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE
63. TWO VARIETIES OF DEMONS
64. THE DROP OF WATER
65. THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK
66. TRIAL
67. EXECUTION
68. CONCLUSION
69. Epilogue