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The Three Musketeers (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

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*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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• 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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• - The Three Musketeers summary and study guide in the eNotes.