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The Three Musketeers (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)

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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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• Alexandre Dumas, père (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Alexandre Dumas, père (Drama)
• Alexandre Dumas, père (Censorship)
• Alexandre Dumas, père (Dictionary of World Biography)
• Alexandre Dumas, père (Long Fiction)
• Alexandre Dumas, père (Mystery and Detective Fiction)

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