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REVIEW: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

When d’Artagnan goes to Paris to become a Musketeer, he embarks on a swashbuckling adventure with the legendary Porthos, Athos, and Aramis. If they wish to trump the nefarious Cardinal Richelieu, it’s got to be “all for one, one for all.”

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Some time ago Robin posted an article about books that influenced you, that changed you. I remember thinking that I was having trouble coming up with the books that I felt made me a better person. It was easy for me to come up with the many excellent books that I loved, the stories and characters I remembered, but I was not sure that I ever read a book which taught me a direct life lesson.

But then I thought some more and I realized that The Three Musketeers definitely was one of those books. I saw a Soviet movie based on the story when I was very young – probably as young as five — and read the book a couple of years later. The friendship that the Musketeers and D’Artagnan shared made a deep impression on me, and I decided that this is how I should be treating my friends in real life – to go the extra mile for a friend, etc.

I have lost count of how many times I reread this book over the years, along with its sequel, Twenty Years After , and I brought them with me when we came to live to the US. Because New York apparently did not have bookstores. That’s my story and I am sticking to it!

I am not even sure I need to summarize the plot, because so many people have seen the movies even if they haven’t read the books (although don’t get me started on most of the movies).

In the foreword the author tells us that the book is based on “The Memoirs of Sir D’Artagnan” – I wonder whether Dumas really did want to add some non–fictional authenticity to the book, or if he was he just having fun with the fictitious memoirs, but does it really matter?

A young Gascony noble named D’Artagnan comes to Paris because he wants to cover himself in glory as a Musketeer. His father gives him a recommendation letter to De Treville, a childhood friend, who became the Captain of Musketeers for King Louis XIII.

Almost right away our D’Artagnan gets involved in an adventure. He could have lost his life, but instead all that he lost was the letter to De Treville, an escapade in which a dark-haired man and a beautiful woman take their parts. As you can imagine, when our young man finally meets De Treville, it is not easy for D’Artagnan to make De Treville believe him and allow him to join the Musketeers. De Treville offers to put in a word for D’Artagnan for admission into some kind of academy for young nobles, but this is not how D’Artagnan planned to start covering himself in glory.

During the meeting with De Treville D’Artagnan sees the man who stole his recommendation letter from him and runs after him. In the meantime D’Artagnan has also managed to annoy Athos, Porthos and Aramis for different reasons, and all three of them call him out to fight duels (at the same place but at different times). D’Artagnan of course accepts their challenges, but he does not think he will survive the duels – he thinks one of the Musketeers will eventually kill him.

A spoiler for those who have not seen any of the movies or read the book: D’Artagnan survives, because instead of his dueling with each of Three Musketeers, all four of them get into a fight with soldiers who serve Cardinal Richelieu. From that moment on, these four guys become inseparable.

The adventure that D’Artagnan had become involved in – initially not very much by choice — becomes an adventure for all of them. Intrigues, deadly fights, love (although unhappy love, mostly) – this book has it all. And it has friendship, because they really do mean it when they say “one for all and all for one”. If friend asks you to go to a foreign country on a deadly errand which you may not come back from alive, you go, just because friend asks for your help. But then when the errand is successful because your friends had your back to the point that they were ready to die for you, then you go back and find your friends and rescue them from whatever situation they got themselves into because they were helping you.

This was just one example of what the Musketeers were ready to do for each other – and I do not think it is a spoiler to reveal that eventually D’Artagnan becomes a Musketeer too.

The book is a wonderful romp – the main characters were wonderful companions in my childhood and they have stayed with me through my adult life, but I want to note that they are not really romantic heroes. In some ways they are really flawed people. For example, all three Musketeers have servants, and when D’Artagnan gets one his friends tell him that the way to deal with his servant (if he asks for a raise or wants to leave) is to beat him so he will never think about doing that again. I believe D’Artagnan does it once and that is enough to teach his servant not to do that, but beware if stuff like this may upset you. And Athos beats his servant once because the servant speaks when he should not – Athos requires his servant to not talk except in an emergency and mostly speaks with him in gestures.

Another thing: as much as I love Athos, I did not like how he had treated his former wife in the past. I cannot be more specific in case there are people who do not know the plot. Note, though, that I am perfectly okay with everything his former wife got in the present, I think she deserved that and so much more, but what happened in the past did bother me.

I said that I love the book because of the friendship the main characters share, but another reason why I love this book so much is because of what happens between D’Artagnan and Rochefort at the end. I love that each awards the other the utmost respect despite being on opposite sides.

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The Three Musketeers book review: Wrongful characters in an era full of intrigue and deceit as two great nations dispute power over Europe.

What’s not to love on all of this, right? For those of you who think this novel is only about “one for all in all for one,” prepare to be surprised!

Since it appeared as a pamphlet in 1844, the story of The Three Musketeers has gone through over thousands of adaptations. Along the years, the adventures of Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and d’Artagnan have penetrated our collective imaginary, making this cloak and dagger romance gain the status of a real cultural myth.

Alexandre Dumas, (1802-1870) was a French novelist and playwright, author of the classic of literature, “The Three Musketeers”. His stories have been translated in several countries and produced several films.

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The story takes place in seventeenth-century France, at the time of the reign of Louis XIII, where in the village of Meung the young D’Artagnan is leaving for Paris, where he wishes to fulfill his dream of becoming a King’s Musketeer, just as his father before him. From the D’Artagnan father, the young Gascon receives three presents (The Horse, the Sword and the Letter of Recommendation to the Commander of the Musketeers) and leaves for his adventure. From then on, the most diverse plots will come to meet the young man, where we will meet various characters such as the noble Musketeers Athos,

His father gives him three presents, a horse, a sword and a letter of recommendation to the Commander of the Musketeers. The young man leaves for his adventure and, from then on, the most diverse of plots will involve the young man.

We get to meet a variety of characters such as the noble Musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, the mysterious and fatal Milady, as well as historical figures such as Louis XIII himself, his wife, Anne of Austria and The Cardinal of Richelieu.

I always liked the history behind the story of the Musketeers, but I never paid much attention to their differences.

The first thing that makes Dumas win your heart, and draws all the attention to the book, is character construction. Be it D ‘Artagnan, as a heroic vision to the molds of Don Quixote, Athos and his good and melancholic air, Porthos and his vanity that makes Dorian Gray seem humble or even Aramis and his dilemma between serving the Crown or the Church, Dumas is irreprehensible when constructing his archetypes. You care about each and every one of them, as well as you hate the guts of all the evil ones.

All the refinement of the characters comes from the fact they heroes and villains are not perfect in their primary roles and are quite humanized by that. The Musketeers are drunkards, extravagant, selfish, gambling addicts and do not care about being supported by their lovers (something apparently common in Europe at the time).

Athos has a dark past that he does not want to reveal. D’Artagnan is in love with a married woman, but this “pure love” does not prevent him from getting involved with Milady, or deceiving her maid. Aramis has a very liberal view of life for a religious man. Porthos, as I have already commented, is so vain that can be compared to the protagonist of Oscar Wilde’s novel.

But none of their vices or defects prevents them from performing their function well.

But no character, in my view, was as prominent as Milady. In the book, we have several women with characteristics that make them strong and powerful, without having to be objectified, or even wielding a sword and starting the duel, but Milady can be considered a milestone in this respect. Armed with her influence and beauty, she is a unique character because she is astute and insightful as few and capable of the most diverse manipulations to fulfill her goals and save herself from problems. She is an antagonist who steals the scene whenever she appears.

Another nice point is the historical period. The reign of Louis XIII was characterized by wars against the Huguenots (French Protestants) from the reign of the old king when D’Artagnan father participated.

Even Spain and England did not have a good relationship with France, and the king was known to be very dependent on his prime minister. The Cardinal, as the main antagonist of the plot, was, at the same time as a “necessary evil” figure, and a pillar to France, with his influence and men. Even with all this historical weight, Alexandre Dumas was free to use these personalities at his pleasure, without being help up in his creativity.

D’Artagnan rallies his new friends to foil Cardinal Richelieu’s plot to depose the Louis XIII and crown himself king of France.

Set in a time of various battles, with charismatic and well-crafted characters and intriguing plots, this book is a novel full of adventure and emotion. It keeps us addicted page after page until the end.

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Hah! This is quite an adventure! I grew up with my father telling tales of D’Artagnan and the three musketeers. Always saying that this is a great story with a lot of pleasantly depicted culture. Looks like he was right! Great review of the book, congratulations!

Ah! A classics admirer. We need more people that, like you, know how to appreciate good old adventure literature. Keep in touch and thanks for sharing your opinion! Cheers!

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Review by Terrence Rafferty

Aug. 20, 2006

WORDS never failed Alexandre Dumas. In his maniacally productive writing career, he pumped out millions and millions of them: some good, some bad and all indifferent to any value other than propelling a story forward at the giddiest possible pace, if not, perhaps, with optimum fuel efficiency. Dumas’s novels are shameless word-guzzlers, big and plush and almost sinfully comfortable: ideal vehicles for the long, scenic excursions into French history he regularly conducted for the newspaper readers of mid-19th-century Paris.

He wrote at a speed that pretty much precluded reflection, precision, anything resembling literary refinement, and he famously employed assistants to help out with research, plotting and, some thought, even the writing itself. (The collected works — novels, plays, essays — fill some 300 volumes.) He was accused, in his time, of merely running a “novel factory” and (by no less a personage than Sainte-Beuve) of perpetrating “industrial literature.” But if Dumas was a hack, he was a hack with genius. His storytelling never seems the least bit mechanical: no assembly line, then or now, could ever turn out a narrative as joyful, as eccentric, as maddeningly human as “The Three Musketeers.” Originally serialized in Le Siècle between March and July of 1844, Dumas’s best-known novel has been with us for more than a century and a half and clearly isn’t going away any time soon. There’s no blueprint for that sort of endurance.

Richard Pevear’s brisk, agile new translation succeeds, I think, because it does justice to the pure nuttiness of Dumas’s writing: the nonindustrial, nonformulaic, downright peculiar qualities that make a work of popular fiction memorable. “The Three Musketeers” purports to dramatize some significant events from the reign of Louis XIII — the action begins in 1625 and ends three years later — but although many of its characters did actually exist, historical veracity is not (to put it mildly) Dumas’s primary concern. History seems too small for him, somehow. Dumas turns the great actors on the world’s stage — the king; the queen; her admirer, Lord Buckingham; and Louis’s crafty, Dick Cheney-like adviser/puppeteer, Cardinal Richelieu — into bit players, characters whose function is simply to provide opportunities for spectacular displays of bravery, loyalty and mother wit on the part of the musketeers and their young comrade-in-arms, D’Artagnan.

Lots of historical novels do something similar, of course. What sets Dumas apart is the conscienceless insouciance with which he reduces the mighty to figures in a farce. It would be a stretch, perhaps, to think of him as deliberately subversive, but he has to be credited with an instinctive irreverence toward power and those who wield it, and this attitude may be the most important reason for his persistent appeal. Every generation since that of the first readers of “The Three Musketeers” has learned, in one way or another, that leaders are on the whole a good deal less noble than those who serve them. Usually — too often — the hard way.

The musketeers — Athos, Porthos and Aramis — and D’Artagnan (who becomes an official musketeer only toward the end of the book) protect their king and queen zealously, even daring at times to sabotage the Machiavellian schemes of the very dangerous Cardinal Richelieu. It’s apparent, though, that they perform their prodigious feats not because they believe devoutly in the intrinsic merit of Louis XIII or his queen, Anne of Austria, but because it’s their duty to defend the monarchy. This is all the reason they need to risk their lives.

That there’s a strong whiff of existential absurdity in their situation is not lost on their creator. Dumas puts his heroes to work at ridiculous-seeming tasks like the recovery of some diamonds, originally presented to the queen by the king, that Anne has imprudently bestowed on the ardent Buckingham. Richelieu, with the aid of his most ruthless agent, the femme extra-fatale known as Milady de Winter, has been trying to get his own pious hands on the gems in order to discredit the queen, so the musketeers’ mission isn’t inconsequential, and the perils they’re exposed to along the way are plenty real. But you remain aware, through all the ambushes and sword fights and breathless escapes, that the queen’s predicament is a device better suited to comedy than to the drama of world history.

When “The Three Musketeers” does at last turn its attention to a genuinely significant historical event — the siege of the Protestant stronghold of La Rochelle — Dumas is unable to conceal his irritation at having to deal with it. The siege, he writes, “was one of the great political events of the reign of Louis XIII, and one of the great military undertakings of the cardinal. It is thus worthwhile, and even necessary, for us to say a few words about it. Besides, many details of this siege are bound up in too important a way with the story we have undertaken to tell for us to pass over them in silence” — as he would plainly prefer to do.

Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D’Artagnan are all required to take part in this campaign, but they seem barely present, only marginally more aware of the battle raging around them than Stendhal’s young hero Fabrizio is at Waterloo in “The Charterhouse of Parma.” As if to emphasize their obliviousness, Dumas gives them an entirely pointless set piece of derring-do: they occupy an abandoned bastion for a quiet conference, over lunch, on strategies to defeat Milady, and calmly finish their meal before finishing off the attackers who have been trying to recapture their refuge. Sang doesn’t get more froid than that.

The episode of the St.-Gervais bastion is Dumas at his idiosyncratic best: a heady mix of intrigue, action and laughing-in-the-face-of-death badinage (all superbly rendered in this translation). It’s typical of him, too, that the most stirring bit of swashbuckling in this whole rambunctious novel should occur in what is essentially a digression. In a sense, though, “The Three Musketeers” is nothing but digressions. That’s the beauty of it — and the reason Dumas was able to continue the musketeers’ saga for another several hundred thousand words, first in “Twenty Years After,” serialized in 1845, and then in “The Vicomte de Bragelonne,” which ran in Le Siècle from 1847 to 1850 and is so gargantuan that it’s now usually broken up into three hefty volumes (“The Vicomte de Bragelonne,” “Louise de la Vallière” and “The Man in the Iron Mask”). And it’s also the reason, I think, that his work seems so imperishably (if inadvertently) modern.

No novelist since Dumas has been more irreverent of the conventions of well-made fiction or any more determined to tell stories without identifiable centers. There is, finally, something moving about his helpless, logorrheic outpourings of narrative. His historical novels always wind up saying that everything that matters — love, courage, pleasure and, especially, all-for-one-and-one-for-all friendship — exists most vividly not in the supposed centers of power, but elsewhere: in the margins of history, where the musketeers, immortally, live.

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The *père* after the author’s name means, roughly, “Sr.” and is meant to distinguish him from his son, Alexandre Dumas *fils* (Jr.). These French words literally mean “father” and “son,” which tells you two things about this book. First, it is the product of a literary dynasty, for both the father and the son were celebrated writers. Second, it was written in French, and if you don’t speak French, you will have to find a translation.

You may not find the same translation I read, so the words may not be the same in your copy, but here’s a quote from the second paragraph of this novel, a paragraph that gave me an accurate clue to how much I would enjoy the rest of the book:

In those times…there were nobles, who made war against each other; there was the king, who made war against the cardinal; there was Spain, which made war against the king. Then, in addition to these concealed or public. secret or open wars, there were robbers, mendicants, Huguenots, wolves, and scoundrels, who made war upon everybody. The citizens always took up arms readily against thieves, wolves, or scoundrels, often against nobles or Huguenots, sometimes against the king, but never against the cardinal or Spain.

As soon as I had read this, I perceived that Dumas had a sparkling wit, and that this “historical romance” (set in France and England between 1626 and 1628) was going to come over light on the history and strong on the romance. It was a promise that Dumas fufilled throughout the book’s nearly 600 pages (in my edition).

The Three Musketeers isn’t “classic literature” in the sense of being longwinded, mannered, and boring. It is, rather, a marvelous entertainment, crammed with vendettas, love affairs, duels, intrigues, daring exploits, drily funny dialogue, scintillating melodrama, and side-splitting farce. It has an imperfect but captivating young hero – an ambitious youngster named D’Artagnan, who comes up from Gascony to make his fortune in Paris. It has a group of heroically devoted friends – Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each intriguing in his own way. It has two unforgettable villains, from the intriguingly ambivalent Cardinal Richelieu to the truly monstrous Milady de Winter. It mixes fictional and semi-fictional characters with well-known historical figures, such as the cardinal, King Louis XIII, Queen Anne of Austria, and the Duke of Buckingham – though Dumas adapts historical events with a great deal of freedom, proving once again that his history is handmaiden to the romance. It has memorable lines, of which “All for one, one for all” is only the best-known example. It has horrors and intrigues that will fill you with dread while you turn page after page, as well as merry adventures that will thrill you with joy.

It may have been harder for an earlier generation of young readers to tune into this book, for one big reason: we don’t understand the period it is talking about. But for today’s internet-savvy kid this won’t be a problem. Whenever something comes up in the book that you don’t know about, Wiki it. That’s how I found out that “Monsieur” was the title of the King of France’s oldest living brother (in this instance Gaston, duc d’Orleans). I learned more about the astonishing character of George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, who really proves that truth is stranger than fiction. I figured out what on earth a “procurator” was (apparently, some kind of lawyer). I also read up on the other historical characters, including Gaston’s successor as Monsieur, Louis XIV’s brother Philippe who, in history, did not wear an iron mask.

The iron mask bit doesn’t come into this book, though; that belongs to one of the sequels. Dumas (1802-1870) wrote two further “D’Artagnan Romances,” titled Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later . The latter is typically published in three or more volumes, with titles such as Louise de la Vallière and The Man in the Iron Mask , each of which is about as thick as The Three Musketeers . Dumas *père* specialized in stage plays, but also wrote numerous novels that were serialized in French newspapers with great success. Their titles include The Count of Monte Cristo, The Two Dianas, The Knight of Maison-Rouge, The Black Tulip, and The Knight of Sainte-Hermine , a nearly-finished novel that was only discovered in 1988. Dumas, whose grandmother was black, also wrote an early novel on racial themes, titled Georges .

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The Three Musketeers is the story of d’Artagnan , a young man from Gascony who dreams of becoming a musketeer (a soldier who carries a rifle). At the beginning of the novel, he sets off from his hometown and makes his way to Paris where he plans to introduce himself to M. de Tréville , the king’s righthand man and the leader of the musketeers. On his way to Paris, he picks a fight with a Rochefort , one of the cardinal ’s best men, although d’Artagnan doesn’t know who he is at the time. Upon arriving in Paris, he makes his way to M. de Tréville, who gets him started on the path to becoming a musketeer.

Shortly after his meeting with M. de Tréville, d’Artagnan challenges three different musketeers— Athos , Porthos , and Aramis —to a duel, not realizing any of them are friends. When d’Artagnan shows up to his duel with Athos, he is surprised to see that Athos brought Porthos and Aramis as his seconds. However, before their duel can begin, the cardinal’s men interrupt them and pick a fight with the musketeers. Realizing that his issues with the musketeers are silly, d’Artagnan decides to ally himself with them against the cardinal’s men. D’Artagnan and the musketeers easily win the battle against the cardinal’s men and from that moment on, the four men become great friends.

Shortly after his battle with the cardinal’s men, d’Artagnan becomes embroiled in a plot to save the queen from one of the cardinal’s schemes. Simultaneously, he falls in love with a woman named Madame Bonacieux who works for the queen. She asks d’Artagnan to deliver a letter to the Duke of Buckingham in England. Although d’Artagnan doesn’t know it, the queen gave the Duke of Buckingham some diamond tags (jewelry) as a token of her affection, but now, the queen needs them back—otherwise, the cardinal plans to humiliate her in front of the king by revealing her affair with the duke. Wanting to win Madame Bonacieux’s favor, d’Artagnan heads to London with Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and their servants by his side. On the way to London, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis stay behind at various points in the journey to deal with the cardinal’s traps. D’Artagnan makes it to London and gives the duke the letter. The duke returns the tags to d’Artagnan, who swiftly takes them back to Paris and gives them to the queen. Although this is a great success for d’Artagnan, it puts him on the cardinal’s radar. Because of this, M. de Tréville tells d’Artagnan that he must watch his back.

Not long after d’Artagnan returns from Paris, the cardinal kidnaps Madame Bonacieux, who now loves d’Artagnan in return. M. de Tréville promises to help d’Artagnan find her, but in the meantime, d’Artagnan must find out what happened to the musketeers. As quickly as he can, d’Artagnan sets off to find each of his friends. He does so without too much trouble, although ach of his friends is in a terrible emotional state that d’Artagnan must snap them out of. Athos, in particular, is in a bad mood and drinks a lot. One night while drunk, Athos tells d’Artagnan a story about his “friend” (who is clearly Athos himself). This friend apparently married a beautiful woman and then killed her after he found out she was branded with a fleur-de-lis . This story horrifies d’Artagnan, though he doesn’t know what to make of it.

Eventually, the musketeers make their way back to Paris. For the next few weeks, they prepare for the upcoming war against the English. Additionally, d’Artagnan becomes acquainted with Milady de Winter , a woman who he knows is friendly with Rochefort. At this point, d’Artagnan thinks Rochefort had something to do with Madame Bonacieux’s kidnapping and wants to find out more details. Although he initially plans to use Milady to get to Rochefort, d’Artagnan quickly finds himself falling in love with Milady. Eventually, d’Artagnan goes to bed with Milady after promising to fight a duel on her behalf. While in bed with Milady, d’Artagnan admits he’s been dishonest with her, and she gets angry with him. As he tries to calm her down, d’Artagnan rips Milady’s nightgown, revealing a fleur-de-lis on her shoulder. This revelation causes Milady to go berserk; she tries to stab d’Artagnan, who barely escapes with his life. He tells Athos about the encounter and though neither man says it out loud, both know that Milady is Athos’s wife.

Not long after this incident, d’Artagnan and the musketeers ride off to war. Because d’Artagnan is not a musketeer himself, he doesn’t fight alongside his friends. While at war, d’Artagnan feels isolated and afraid. He knows Milady might try to take revenge on him and indeed she does. She sends several assassins his way as well as some poison wine. Luckily, d’Artagnan foils her plans and is eventually reunited with his friends.

Not long after d’Artagnan and his friends are reunited, the musketeers overhear a conversation between the cardinal and Milady. The cardinal tells Milady that he will allow her to kill d’Artagnan with impunity if she assassinates the Duke of Buckingham. The musketeers tell d’Artagnan about Milady’s plan and the four of them decide to write one letter to the queen and one letter to Lord de Winter , Milady’s brother-in-law, warning them about Milady’s plan. Lord de Winter is d’Artagnan’s friend as well as a close confidant of the Duke of Buckingham. D’Artagnan knows Lord de Winter doesn’t like Milady and suspects that she wants him dead so that she can steal his money.

Milady sails to London, where she is promptly abducted by one of Lord de Winter’s men, John Felton , and taken to a castle. There, Lord de Winter explains that he plans to send Milady to a penal colony as soon as he can get a letter from the duke granting him permission. Until then, Milady must wait in captivity. During that time, John Felton, a highly religious man, watches over her. Slowly, Milady seduces Felton and wins him over to her side. She tells him an elaborate (and false) story about how the Duke of Buckingham raped and unfairly branded her, which makes Felton, who already despises the duke because of his religious beliefs, hate him even more. Just before Milady can be sent away, Felton breaks her out of her cell and takes her to London on a boat. While in London, Felton goes by himself to find the duke and kills him. He is captured in the process.

Milady makes her way back to France and eventually ends up in a convent. There, she meets Madame Bonacieux, who managed to escape the cardinal and has been hiding in the convent for some time. When Milady learns that Madame Bonacieux is d’Artagnan’s mistress and that d’Artagnan is coming to rescue her, she poisons her as an act of revenge. D’Artagnan finds Madame Bonacieux just in time to watch her die. Realizing what happened, d’Artagnan, who is now a musketeer himself, tracks down Milady with his friends’ help. They also bring along a local executioner who Milady wronged in the past. Together, the group holds a trial for Milady and declares her guilty. The executioner then beheads her.

Everyone heads back to Paris. The war is over for the time being and the cardinal makes d’Artagnan a lieutenant of the musketeers for his service. Although the cardinal does not like that d’Artagnan foiled some of his plans, he still got what he wanted, and he has great respect for d’Artagnan. He also introduces d’Artagnan to Rochefort and forces the two men to promise to get along. D’Artagnan and Rochefort comply, although clearly a rivalry still exists between the two of them. In the years after, d’Artagnan serves as a lieutenant for the musketeers. Gradually, all of his friends retire to marry and explore their passions.

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The three musketeers is a 90s classic, rt does the three musketeers rotten, the final charge of love, friendship, and optimism.

1993's The Three Musketeers was a fun-loving MGM/Disney adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas Classic novel.
Although the online court of public opinion's rating of the film is so criminally low, the film is packed with fun action adventure.
The film's final scene was a wonderful product of its time when messages of love, heroism, and friendship were at an all-time high.

It's always an interesting study in the collective memory of generations of movie and television lovers to see odd and sometimes unbelievable shifts in their public opinion on nostalgic classics that defined their genres. 1993's The Three Musketeers was a production between MGM and Disney to adapt the classic Alexandre Dumas novel into a rebooted action-adventure film. Of course, preceding this hopeful reboot was the classic Hollywood trilogy that spanned from 1973 to 1989 with Michael York, Charleton Heston, Raquel Welch, and Christopher Lee to name a few.

Considering the great scale and opulence of the film in its cast, costumes, action, and locations, 1993's The Three Musketeers was geared up to be a fantastic reboot that could render sequels like its predecessor. With a 30 million dollar budget, the film went on to gross 111 million worldwide. Unfortunately, sequels weren't wildly popular at the time, but The Three Musketeers would return in 1998 in another adaptation of one of Alexandre Dumas' sequels, The Man In The Iron Mask , with yet again another stacked cast and an incredibly exciting, dark, and romantic plot. Despite the internet's grumblings a-la Rotten Tomatoes , 1993's The Three Musketeers and some of its major moments and action sequences engrave the great spirit of adventure and fun of the 90s into many fans' nostalgia for swashbuckling films.

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At the time, Chris O'Donnell, who played D'Artagnan, was gaining fame as Robin from the 90s Batman films.
Its sequel, The Man In The Iron Mask, was made in 1998 and starred Gerard Depardieu, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gabriel Byrne, and Leonardo Di Caprio.

Despite its rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes, 1993's The Three Musketeers was a domestic and global success that measured up to other adventure films of the decade like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Mask of Zorro . Starring a cast of well-established and up-and-coming stars like Chris O'Donnell, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Oliver Platt, Rebecca De Mornay, and the iconic Tim Curry as the power-hungry Cardinal Richelieu. The film and its tone truly embraced the spirit of fun adventure that 90s action films inspired in family-targeted audiences.

With a film centered around swashbuckling heroes, it was only natural for one of the most famous Hollywood Swordmasters of the time to choreograph and design the incredible duels in the films, Bob Anderson. Known for his work on Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi as well as the later adaptation of The Man In The Iron Mask , this film dazzled with its bladework and fun fencing on top of its stunts and bombastic action. On top of all the usual joys of an action-adventure drama , the film also had a featured end credits song from Bryan Adams, who also did the end credits song for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves .

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Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer gives it a 30% critic rating, with a 62% Audience Score.
Most critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes seem displeased with the vague commercialization of the original literature rather than judging the plot the film presents.

There's a great divide on the commonly-used review site Rotten Tomatoes as far as rating this film. To audiences, it receives a 62% score, but to critics, it plummets to 30%. It's prevalent that the nostalgia and enjoyment the film triggers in adventure film enthusiasts is completely lost on the critics, who largely pan it for not being true to the original literature. If every action adventure film based on popular folklore and literature was given a bad review for not following the literature, then every single 90s action adventure that adapts stories of that mold would be graded extremely low. In a time like now, where audiences understand that the spirit of folklore and books is more important than an exact and perfect summation of a massive novel, it is much more important for visual media.

That being said, the best critics of any film, especially action-adventure genre films, are the audiences watching them for enjoyment. The Three Musketeers was a film specifically and carefully built to fit the mold the 90s had successfully created. It was not trying to be something different, it was just working on the fun and colorful spectacle wreathed in the romance of France in 1625. Had this film been shot with a grittier tone that communicated some sort of serious commitment to the literature, then perhaps it would have deserved more scrutiny than it has received these days.

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Bryan Adams' end credits song for The Three Musketeers was "All For Love" and its instrumental theme is laced into the film's score.
1993's The Three Musketeers was directed by Stephen Herek and filmed mainly in Austria.

The 90s had an incredible streak of fun and optimism injected in its clothing, music, and films, and despite the doom and gloom many films were capable of still, the action-adventure genre delivered this in spades. Caped dynamic duos like Batman and Robin and old folk heroes like Zorro blazed across the screen, showing a very clean and clear idea of good and evil, love overcoming all, and the true value of friendship. The Three Musketeers was the perfect tale to communicate that message with spectacular enthusiasm. The chemistry between Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan, working together to topple the corrupt and wildly evil Cardinal Richelieu who was so colorfully portrayed by Tim Curry, inspired those sentiments full-heartedly. No other scene sums this up better than the final one in the film.

When D'Artagnan is finally knighted as a Musketeer and given his blue and silver tabard, he suddenly runs into his rival he had been dueling at the beginning of the film. He is accompanied by some of his goons, but before he can draw on D'Artagnan, the newly-appointed musketeer crosses blades to the sky with his new friends and comrades, and the streets fill with blue-dressed musketeers, who charge the cowardly rival and his goons down the road. The film ends in a top-down shot of the countless extras swarming down the road in their plumes, blades, boots, and robes, One for All, All for One. Scenes like this were the dream of every kid who was ever bullied's dream, to be backed up by an army of heroes ready to charge against cowardly foes. Despite the film's more negative critical reviews, they pale to the optimistic tone of adventure and fun that The Three Musketeers , and the genre itself, brings to cinema as it inspires cheers, laughs, and thrills. Whether certain audiences prefer an older rendition of this adaptation or another, the tone of this story's history on film was always meant to inspire the ideas of comradery, passion, and justice.

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One of the most famous French writers of the nineteenth century, Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) first achieved success in the literary world a playwright, before turning his hand to writing novels. In two years from 1844 to 1845, he published two enormous books, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers . Both novels have sold millions of copies worldwide.

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Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie; (24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later. His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar and published in 2005, becoming a bestseller. It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier

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2024 marks the 180th anniversary of the publication of literature’s greatest swashbuckling adventure, "The Three Musketeers." The novel first reached its fans in 1844 and has never been out of print since. It was written by the explosively prolific Alexandre Dumas, a child birthed by the revolutionary age, an Afro-French writer who was the grandson of a French aristocrat and a Haitian slave and the son of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas whose military career inspired several of Dumas’ literary characters.

When Alexandre Dumas was born in Villers-Cotterêts, France, on July 24, 1802, Iowa and the entirety of French Louisiana were a part of the French realm which ceased to be a kingdom in the violent conflagrations of the Revolution of 1789 and has gone through several iterations of power structures from republic and dictatorship to directory and consulate in swift succession. In charge of this sprawling and intermittently insubordinate entity was Napoleon Bonaparte, who ruled all French continental and overseas territories as First Consul from 1799 till 1804 when he crowned himself emperor. Iowa was a part of the French Consulate from 1799 till 1803 when Napoleon ceded French Louisiana to the US during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. Yes, as incredible as this may sound, the year of Alexandre Dumas’ birth, Iowa was still a part of France, the country whose history and culture he immortalized in such novels as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.

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Alexandre Dumas was the son of a French Revolutionary and Napoleonic General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1762-1806), who was born to a French aristocrat and a black slave in Saint-Domingue, today’s Haiti. As a supporter of the French Revolution, General Dumas relinquished his aristocratic title and served the French Republic under the name of his Haitian slave mother, Cezette Dumas, a name immortalized by her literary grandson, Alexandre Dumas, AND great-grandson, also named Alexandre, the author of The Lady of the Camellias. General Dumas joined Napoleon’s expeditions to Malta and Egypt and participated in the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798. The black general, who makes several appearances in the 2023 Ridley Scott film Napoleon, was a heroic figure whose military career ignited his son’s imagination and later served as inspiration for events and characters in his novels. The character of Portos in the Three Musketeers is loosely based on General Dumas and details of his lengthy imprisonment in the southern Italian town of Taranto are discernible in the plot of The Count of Monte Cristo.

Alexandre Dumas was one of the most successful writers of the 19th century whose prolific career spanned four decades with over 160 published titles, some rediscovered and edited in recent years. Yet pernicious racial prejudices left a mark on the reception Dumas received during his lifetime. Caricatures portraying Dumas as a stereotypical black man accompanied newspaper articles dedicated to his publications. One of them depicted the writer leaning over a large bowl of the Provençal soup bouillabaisse, fishing his characters out with a spoon, presumably in order to eat them…

When Dumas died in 1870 at the age of 68, he was buried near his father and mother in the town of his birth, Villers-Cotterêts. A couple of summers ago, I visited this tranquil community situated 50 miles east of Paris and paid my respects to General Dumas and his wife, Marie Louise Labouret Dumas, whose family plot is still kept in perfect order at the town’s historical cemetery. Yet their famous son is no longer interred with them. To mark the bicentennial of his birth, the Jacques Chirac administration took it upon itself to redress the racial affronts suffered by Dumas during his lifetime. In 2002, Dumas’ body was exhumed and reburied with great pomp and circumstance in the Pantheon in Paris, the final resting place of his illustrious compatriots Victor Hugo and Emile Zola, who are interred in the same crypt. The coffin containing the remains of Alexandre Dumas was escorted to his final resting place by four French Guardsmen dressed in the uniforms of the four musketeers.

Underneath the fast-paced facade of a page-turner, Alexandre Dumas constructed a novel that is mindful of both the historical period it describes (Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648, and its aftermath in Europe and North America) and the period of the French Revolutions of 1789 and 1830 that produced it. Along with its two sequels, the 1845 Twenty Years Later and 1847-1850 The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, The Three Musketeers has been turned into hundreds of film adaptations, the latest released in France in 2023 and 2024, in commemoration of the novel’s anniversary.

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Please join "100 Days of The Three Musketeers," my global reading project which begins on June 1. We will read the novel through the summer, each of its 68 chapters accompanied by detailed historical and biographical commentary (see my Substack page) which will help us place the novel in its cultural context and celebrate the accomplishments of its legendary author, Alexandre Dumas.

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Anna Barker, PhD, teaches in the UI Russian Program and at the Tippie College of Business on topics ranging from Tolstoy to Barbie. She writes “Anna’s Thinking Cap,” an Iowa City Press-Citizen column, dedicated this year to Iowa's Napoleonic and French past. Her daily Substack posts can be found at annasthinkingcap.substack.com and her literary tutorials at iowacityofliterature.org/anna-barker-classics .

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April 9, 2022. (Book 908 from 1001 books) - Les Trois Mousquetaires = The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas. The Three Musketeers is a historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. Set in 1625-1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named D'Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the ...
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The book is a wonderful romp - the main characters were wonderful companions in my childhood and they have stayed with me through my adult life, but I want to note that they are not really romantic heroes. In some ways they are really flawed people. For example, all three Musketeers have servants, and when D'Artagnan gets one his friends ...
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The Three Musketeers book review: Wrongful characters in an era full of intrigue and deceit as two great nations dispute power over Europe. ... Alexandre Dumas, (1802-1870) was a French novelist and playwright, author of the classic of literature, "The Three Musketeers". His stories have been translated in several countries and produced ...
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That's the rallying cry of the Musketeers--guards of the French King--and the call to adventure for young readers enjoying their first taste of Dumas' classic swashbuckler. Aramis, Athos, Porthos, and the not-quite-yet Musketeer D'Artagnan use their wits and their swords to battle an evil Cardinal, the traitorous Milady, and other enemies of ...
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A new translation of "The Three Musketeers" gives voice to Dumas's swift, singular style. ... WORDS never failed Alexandre Dumas. In his maniacally productive writing career, he pumped out ...
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The Three Musketeers, novel by Alexandre Dumas père, published in French as Les Trois Mousquetaires in 1844.. SUMMARY: A historical romance, it relates the adventures of four fictional swashbuckling heroes who lived under the French kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV, who reigned during the 17th and early 18th centuries.At the beginning of the story, D'Artagnan arrives in Paris from Gascony and ...
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Les Trois Mousquetaires, by Alexandre Dumas, in French.LibriVox recording by Jc Guan. Chapter 1. Les trois présents de M. d'Artagnan père.. The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires, [le tʁwɑ muskətɛːʁ]) is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas.As with some of his other works, he wrote it in collaboration with ghostwriter ...
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It was a promise that Dumas fufilled throughout the book's nearly 600 pages (in my edition). The Three Musketeers isn't "classic literature" in the sense of being longwinded, mannered, and boring. It is, rather, a marvelous entertainment, crammed with vendettas, love affairs, duels, intrigues, daring exploits, drily funny dialogue ...
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I absolutely loved the camaraderie between d'Artagnan and the Musketeers. The unwavering loyalty and brotherhood they shared, even in the face of adversity, was heartwarming. Dumas masterfully weaves together elements of romance, action, and political intrigue, making the story engaging from start to finish. One of the highlights for me was the witty banter and clever escapades the characters ...
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"We read "The Three Musketeers" to experience a sense of romance and for the sheer excitement of the story," reflected Clifton Fadiman. "In these violent pages all is action, intrigue, suspense, surprise--an almost endless chain of duels, murders, love affairs, unmaskings, ambushes, hairbreadth escapes, wild rides. It is all impossible and it is all magnificent."
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The Three Musketeers Summary. The Three Musketeers is the story of d'Artagnan, a young man from Gascony who dreams of becoming a musketeer (a soldier who carries a rifle). At the beginning of the novel, he sets off from his hometown and makes his way to Paris where he plans to introduce himself to M. de Tréville, the king's righthand man ...
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The Three Musketeers is one of my favorite books. I have read it three times. My daughter, who is in college, just finished it. Her words- witty, charming, frustrating, captivating, emotional. She loved it and wants to read it again. I urge anyone who loves adventure, sword fighting, wit, and romance to read this book. Then watch the 1972 ...
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The Three Musketeers is the first of three adventure novels written by Alexandre Dumas featuring the character of d'Artagnan.. The young d'Artagnan leaves home in Gascony for Paris to join the King's Musketeers. On his way to Paris, the letter which will introduce him to the commander of the Musketeers is stolen by a mysterious man in the town of Meung.
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The Three Musketeers. Kindle Edition. by Alexandre Dumas (Author), Digital Fire (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.5 4,206 ratings. See all formats and editions. Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to—Porthos ...
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French author extraordinaire Alexandre Dumas made his mark on European literature with his stories of dashing adventurers, most notably The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Starting out as a well-received playwright, Dumas found even greater success with his novels, which often featured fictional tales of real-life Gallic notables.
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Action, love, and revenge are three words that summarize Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers. D'Artagnan, the main character, is a young Gascon who has come to Paris to seek his fortune. But his life is far from smooth. In the first chapter, D'Artagnan is injured in a duel and then has a crucial letter of recommendation stolen from him.
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1993's The Three Musketeers was a fun-loving MGM/Disney adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas Classic novel.; Although the online court of public opinion's rating of the film is so criminally low, the film is packed with fun action adventure. The film's final scene was a wonderful product of its time when messages of love, heroism, and friendship were at an all-time high.
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One of the most famous French writers of the nineteenth century, Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) first achieved success in the literary world a playwright, before turning his hand to writing novels. In two years from 1844 to 1845, he published two enormous books, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.Both novels have sold millions of copies worldwide.
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