Les trois mousquetaires

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Gallimard, 1994 - Fiction - 720 pages
Avril 1625. D'Artagnan, cadet de Gascogne, se rend à Paris pour être des mousquetaires du roi. Un malentendu l'oblige à livrer duel contre trois d'entre eux: Porthos, un colosse débonnaire; Athos, ruiné par son mariage avec l'intrigante Milady de Winter; Aramis enfin, galant et mystérieux. Tous trois finissent par croiser le fer contre les gardes du cardinal de Richelieu, leurs ennemis jurés. Les voici inséparables... Bientôt, d'Artagnan apprend que la reine a offert au duc de Buckingham douze ferrets en diamant, présent du roi Louis XIII. Perfide, Richelieu suggère à celui-ci d'exiger qu'elle porte ses ferrets au bal des échevins. Les mousquetaires échoueraient-ils à les rapporter en France, la reine serait perdue... « Un pour tous, tous pour un! » Débordant de péripéties et de scènes historiques, Les Trois Mousquetaires (1844) connut un tel succès que Dumas dut lui donner une suite, Vingt ans après. On ne compte plus les adaptations de ces chefs-d'oeuvre du roman de cape et d'épée.

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About the author (1994)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleLes trois mousquetaires
Volume 2610 of Collection Folio classique
Volume 2610 of Collection Folio, ISSN 0768-0732
Volume 2610 of Folio (Gallimard)
Volume 21 of La Bibliothèque du collectionneur
AuthorAlexandre Dumas
ContributorRoger Nimier
Editionreprint
PublisherGallimard, 1994
ISBN2070388999, 9782070388998
Length720 pages
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Fiction / Action & Adventure
Fiction / Literary
  
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