The three gifts of M. d'Artagnan the elder--The antechamber of M. de Treville--The audience--The shoulder of Athos, the Baldric of Porthos, and the handkerchief of Aramis.--The king's musketeers and the cardinal guards--His majesty king Louis XIII--The house of king musketeers--A court intrigue--D'Artagnan shows himself--A mouse-trap in the seventeenth century--The intrigue grows tangled--George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham--Monsieur bonacieux--The man of Meung--Men of the robe and men of the sword--In which M.Seguier, the keeper of the seals, looks more than once for the bell, in order to ring it, as he did before--Bonacieux at home--Thr lover and the husband--Plan of the campaign--The journey--The comtesse de winter--The ballet of La merlaison--The rendezvous--The pavilion--The mistress of Porthos--The thesis of Aramis--The wife of Athos--The return--Hunting for their equipments--Milady--English and French--A procurator's dinner--Soubrette and mistress--In which the outfit of Aramis and Porthos is treated of--All cats are gray in trhe dark--Dream of vengeance--Milady's secret--How, without incommoding himself, Athos found his outfit-- A vision-- A terrible vision--The siege of Rochelle--The anjou wine--The inn of the red dovecot--The unity of stove-pipes--A conjugal scene--The bastion of St.Gervais--The council of the musketeers--A family affair--Fatality--Chat of brother with a sister--Officer--The first day of captivity--The second day of captivity--The third day of captivity--The fourth day of captivity--The fifth day of captivity--Means for the classical tragedy--Escape--What took place at porstmouth Aug 23, 1628-- In France--The Carmellite convent at Bethune--Twi varieties of demons--The drop[ of water--The man in the red cloak--Judgement--Execution--The cardinal's messenger I

With its rousing cry of "One for all, and all for one" Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure novel has captivated generations of readers since its initial publication in 1844 action, intrigue, and romance abound in this swash buckling epic, which traces a country lad's path to the French court of the early 1600s and the glorious fraternity of the king's men, the musketeers.
A son of impoverished nobility, D' Artagnan arrives in Paris to find the Musketeers disbanded by the cunning Cardinal Richelieu, who hopes to seize power from the weak-willed Louis XIII. The daring and ambitious youth proves his mettle in the company of the famous Musketeers--Porthos, Athos and Aramis- and joins them in a heroic struggle to defend the king and his lovely queen, Anne of Austria.
Dumas transformed the concept of the historical novel by writing in modern, conversational style. His accessible, fast-paced narratives combine real and fictional characters to recapture the events, manners, and mood of seventeenth-century France. Emerging in the chaotic aftermath of the revolution, Dumas's novels provided his contemporaries with a welcome sense of identity and national pride. His most popular work, The three Musketeers, continues to charm modern readers with its timeless tales pf romantic valor.

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