The Three Musketeers, by
Alexandre Dumas, is part of the
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Mixing a bit of seventeenth-century French history with a great deal of invention,
Alexandre Dumas tells the tale of young D’Artagnan and his musketeer comrades, Porthos, Athos and
Aramis. Together they fight to foil the schemes of the brilliant, dangerous Cardinal Richelieu, who pretends to support the king while plotting to advance his own power. Bursting with swirling
swordplay, swooning romance, and unforgettable figures such as the seductively beautiful but deadly femme fatale, Milady, and D’Artagnan’s equally beautiful love, Madame Bonacieux,
The Three
Musketeers continues, after a century and a half of continuous publication, to define the genre of swashbuckling romance and historical adventure.
Barbara T. Cooper is Professor of French at the University of New Hampshire. She is a member of the editorial boards of
Nineteenth-Century French Studies and the
Cahiers
Alexandre Dumas and specializes in nineteenth-century French drama and works by Dumas.
