The Three Musketeers (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Alexandre Dumas, pèr
- First Published: 1844
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: 1626
- Setting: France
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Justice, Politics, France or French people, Love or romance, Crime or criminals, Friendship, Law or legislation, England or English people, Seventeenth century, Kings, queens, or royalty, Kidnapping, Adventure, Heroes or heroism, Soldiers, Duels or dueling, Nobility, Cardinals
- Locales: Paris, France, Portsmouth, England, La Rochelle, France
Characters Discussed
D’Artagnan (dahr-tahn- YAH[N]), a quick-witted, high-tempered young Gascon who has come to Paris to seek his fortune at the court of King Louis XIII. Having proved his bravery by fighting duels with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, all members of the King’s Musketeers, he becomes friends with each. Through the agency of his landlord’s wife, Constance Bonancieux, with whom he has fallen in love, he and his friends are induced to go to England to reclaim two diamond studs that the queen has imprudently given to her lover, the duke of Buckingham. Athos,...
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