Les Trois Mousquetaires

Les Trois Mousquetaires ("The three musketeers") is a celebrated novel by Alexandre Dumas père ()[].

Widely known in English as The Three Musketeers

The novel

a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice.

Set between 1625 and 1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he is befriended by three of the most formidable musketeers of the age – Athos, Porthos and Aramis, "the three musketeers" or "the three inseparables" – and becomes involved in affairs of state and at court.

The Three Musketeers is primarily a historical and adventure novel. However, Dumas frequently portrays various injustices, abuses and absurdities of the Ancien Régime, giving the novel an additional political significance at the time of its publication, a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce. The story was first serialised from March to July 1844, during the July Monarchy, four years before the French Revolution of 1848 established the Second Republic.

Translations and adaptations

The novel has seen innumerable translations and adaptations for all media over the years.

(For a list of French adaptations alone, see the French Wikipedia entry on Les Trois Mousquetaires; and for English adaptations and translations, the English Wikipedia[1] entry on The Three Musketeers)

Adaptations and translations in South Africa

Adapted as a stage play by Dieter Reible and translated into Afrikaans by Tjaart Potgieter.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Trois_Mousquetaires

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers

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