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Author: Alexandre Dumas
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

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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