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The Three Musketeers | The Genius and the Ghost, or, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis

In the following essay, Garnett discusses the question of authorship of The Three Muskateers.

On the evening of 27th October 1845, an unrehearsed scene took place on the stage of the Am-bigu Theatre, Paris. On the final fall of the curtain, while the applause still thundered, a man precipitated himself on the stage, where, shedding tears of mingled joy and gratitude, he embraced another man.

Illustration by Norman Price and E. C. Van Swearingen, from a 1953 version of the novel

The first man was Auguste Maquet. The man whom he embraced was...

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