The Three Musketeers

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Oxford University Press, 1998 - 663 pàgines
A historical romance, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of Cardinal Richelieu, and the honour of the queen against the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of seventeenth century France are vividly played out in the background.

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Authors Preface
1
The Audience
25
The Shoulder of Athos the Belt of Porthos and
35
The Kings Musketeers and the Cardinals Guards
43
His Majesty King Louis the Thirteenth
52
7
70
The Court Intrigue
77
II
91
How without disturbing himself Athos obtained his Equipment
356
A Charming Vision
364
A Terrible Vision
372
The Siege of La Rochelle
380
The Wine of Anjou
391
The Red DoveCot Tavern
398
The Utility of Stove Funnels
405
A Conjugal Scene
413

George Villiers Duke of Buckingham
116
Monsieur Bonancieux
124
The Man of Meung
132
Civilians and Soldiers
141
In which the Keeper of the Seals Séguier looked more
148
The Bonancieux Household
159
The Lover and the Husband
171
The Plan of Campaign
177
The Journey
185
The Countess de Winter
196
The Ballet of The Merlaison
205
The Appointment
211
The Pavilion
221
Porthos
230
The Thesis of Aramis
247
The Wife of Athos
262
The Return
279
The Hunt after Equipments
292
My Lady
300
English and French
306
An Attorneys Dinner
313
Maid and Mistress
321
Concerning the Equipments of Aramis and Porthos
329
All Cats are alike Gray in the Dark
336
The Dream of Vengeance
344
The Ladys Secret
350
The Bastion of St Gervais
418
The Council of the Musketeers
424
A Family Affair
440
Fatality
453
A Chat between a Brother and Sister
460
The Officer
467
The First Day of Imprisonment
478
The Second Day of Imprisonment
484
The Third Day of Imprisonment
491
The Fourth Day of Imprisonment
499
The Fifth Day of Imprisonment
507
An Event in Classical Tragedy
520
The Escape
526
What happened at Portsmouth on the Twentythird of August 1628
534
In France
544
The Carmelite Convent of Bethune
549
Two Kinds of Demons
561
A Drop of Water
566
The Man in the Red Cloak
579
The Judgment
584
The Execution
591
A Message from The Cardinal
595
The Epilogue
607
Explanatory Notes
609
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After an idle youth, Alexandre Dumas went to Paris and spent some years writing. A volume of short stories and some farces were his only productions until 1927, when his play Henri III (1829) became a success and made him famous. It was as a storyteller rather than a playwright, however, that Dumas gained enduring success. Perhaps the most broadly popular of French romantic novelists, Dumas published some 1,200 volumes during his lifetime. These were not all written by him, however, but were the works of a body of collaborators known as "Dumas & Co." Some of his best works were plagiarized. For example, The Three Musketeers (1844) was taken from the Memoirs of Artagnan by an eighteenth-century writer, and The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) from Penchet's A Diamond and a Vengeance. At the end of his life, drained of money and sapped by his work, Dumas left Paris and went to live at his son's villa, where he remained until his death.

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