The Three Musketeers (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Alexandre Dumas, pèr
- First Published: 1844
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1626
- 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
Places Discussed
*Gascony. Region of southwestern France between the Atlantic coast, the Garonne River, and the western Pyrenees. In making the hero, d’Artagnan, a Gascon, Alexandre Dumas early establishes the region’s association with boastfulness and flamboyance. He repeatedly demonstrates that d’Artagnan deserves his Gascon reputation for passion, daring, and astuteness. Characterized as an idealistic outsider first encountering the corruption of the capital and the court, d’Artagnan eventually tells the Englishman Lord Buckingham, “The Gascons are the Scotchmen of...
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