Publication of The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers is a historical adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, published in instalments in a Paris newspaper in 1844. Dumas wrote it with the help of his collaborator Auguste Maquet, and it is set in the 1620s in the France of Louis XIII. It follows the young Gascon d'Artagnan, who goes to Paris to join the King's Musketeers and becomes a friend of three inseparable members of the corps: Athos, Porthos and Aramis. They oppose the intrigues of Cardinal Richelieu and the scheming Milady de Winter. The story used a memoir about the real d'Artagnan as a source. Its motto, all for one and one for all, is well known, and Dumas wrote two sequels, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne.

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