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Fiction · 1844

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

Reading time
about 16.5 h
Length
229,400 words · 474 pages
Structure
67 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English (translated from French)
Era
Victorian

In 1625 a young Gascon named d’Artagnan rides into Paris with a letter of introduction, a yellow horse and a gift for being challenged to duels. Within a day he has made enemies of the Cardinal’s guards and friends of three musketeers of the King — Athos, Porthos and Aramis — and within a month he is carrying the Queen’s honour across the Channel and back, with Richelieu’s agent Milady ahead of him at every stage.

Dumas serialised the novel in Le Siècle in 1844, taking his hero from the memoirs of the real d’Artagnan and working, as usual, with Auguste Maquet. Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne followed; the four friends and their motto long ago outgrew all three books.

This edition uses the anonymous English translation of 1846. Bibliomancer presents the complete text.

Contents

  1. Author’s Preface
  2. Chapter I — The Three Presents of D’Artagnan the Elder
  3. Chapter II — The Antechamber of M. de Tréville
  4. Chapter III — The Audience
  5. Chapter IV — The Shoulder of Athos, the Baldric of Porthos and the Handkerchief of Aramis
  6. Chapter V — The King’s Musketeers and the Cardinal’s Guards
  7. Chapter VI — His Majesty King Louis XIII
  8. Chapter VII — The Interior of the Musketeers
  9. Chapter VIII — Concerning a Court Intrigue
  10. Chapter IX — D’Artagnan Shows Himself
  11. Chapter X — A Mousetrap in the Seventeenth Century
  12. Chapter XI — In Which the Plot Thickens
  13. Chapter XII — George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
  14. Chapter XIII — Monsieur Bonacieux
  15. Chapter XIV — The Man of Meung
  16. Chapter XV — Men of the Robe and Men of the Sword
  17. Chapter XVI — In Which M. Séguier, Keeper of the Seals, Looks More Than Once for the Bell
  18. Chapter XVII — Bonacieux at Home
  19. Chapter XVIII — Lover and Husband
  20. Chapter XIX — Plan of Campaign
  21. Chapter XX — The Journey
  22. Chapter XXI — The Countess de Winter
  23. Chapter XXII — The Ballet of La Merlaison
  24. Chapter XXIII — The Rendezvous
  25. Chapter XXIV — The Pavilion
  26. Chapter XXV — Porthos
  27. Chapter XXVI — Aramis and His Thesis
  28. Chapter XXVII — The Wife of Athos
  29. Chapter XXVIII — The Return
  30. Chapter XXIX — Hunting for the Equipments
  31. Chapter XXX — D’Artagnan and the Englishman
  32. Chapter XXXI — English and French
  33. Chapter XXXII — A Procurator’s Dinner
  34. Chapter XXXIII — Soubrette and Mistress
  35. Chapter XXXIV — In Which the Equipment of Aramis and Porthos Is Treated of
  36. Chapter XXXV — A Gascon a Match for Cupid
  37. Chapter XXXVI — Dream of Vengeance
  38. Chapter XXXVII — Milady’s Secret
  39. Chapter XXXVIII — How, Without Incommoding Himself, Athos Procures His Equipment
  40. Chapter XXXIX — A Vision
  41. Chapter XL — A Terrible Vision
  42. Chapter XLI — The Siege of La Rochelle
  43. Chapter XLII — The Anjou Wine
  44. Chapter XLIII — The Sign of the Red Dovecot
  45. Chapter XLIV — The Utility of Stovepipes
  46. Chapter XLV — A Conjugal Scene
  47. Chapter XLVI — The Bastion Saint-Gervais
  48. Chapter XLVII — The Council of the Musketeers
  49. Chapter XLVIII — A Family Affair
  50. Chapter XLIX — Fatality
  51. Chapter L — Chat Between Brother and Sister
  52. Chapter LI — Officer
  53. Chapter LII — Captivity: The First Day
  54. Chapter LIII — Captivity: The Second Day
  55. Chapter LIV — Captivity: The Third Day
  56. Chapter LV — Captivity: The Fourth Day
  57. Chapter LVI — Captivity: The Fifth Day
  58. Chapter LVII — Means for Classical Tragedy
  59. Chapter LVIII — Escape
  60. Chapter LIX — What Took Place at Portsmouth August 23, 1628
  61. Chapter LX — In France
  62. Chapter LXI — The Carmelite Convent at Béthune
  63. Chapter LXII — Two Varieties of Demons
  64. Chapter LXIII — The Drop of Water
  65. Chapter LXIV — The Man in the Red Cloak
  66. Chapter LXV — Trial
  67. Chapter LXVI — Execution
  68. Chapter LXVII — Conclusion
  69. Epilogue

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Alexandre Dumas

1802–1870 · Victorian

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) was born at Villers-Cotterêts, the son of a general of the Revolutionary armies who had himself been born in Saint-Domingue to a French nobleman and an enslaved woman. Dumas made his name in the Paris theatre with Henri III et sa cour (1829), then turned to the serial novel, working with collaborators — chiefly Auguste Maquet — on The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both begun in 1844. His remains were moved to the Panthéon in 2002.

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