Set between 1625 and 1628, Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 The Three Musketeers recounts the adventures of a young man named d’Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d’Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d’Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he is befriended by three of the most formidable musketeers of the agem Athos, Porthos and Aramis, “the three musketeers” or “the three inseparables”, and becomes involved in affairs of state and at court. Dumas frequently portrays various injustices, abuses and absurdities of the Ancien Régime, giving the novel an additional political significance at the time of its publication, a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce. The story was first serialised from March to July 1844, during the July Monarchy, four years before the French Revolution of 1848 established the Second Republic. The story of d’Artagnan is continued in Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.
Alias Three Musketeers, The Three Inseparables
Real Names/Alt Names Aramis (René d’Aramis de Vannes), Athos (Olivier d’Athos de la Fère), Porthos (Baron du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds)
First Appearance “Les Trois Mousquetaires” serialized in Le Siècle (March to July 1844)
First Publisher Meline, Cans, et Compagnie, Brussels
Appearance List Les Trois Mousquetaires serialized in Le Siècle (March to July 1844). Novels: The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires, 1844); Twenty Years After (1845); The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (1847-50). Film: The Three Musketeers (1903) by Georges Melies; La maschera di ferro (1909); The Three Musketeers: Part 1 and Part 2 (1911); The Three Musketeers (silent, 1914); The Three Musketeers (silent, 1916); A Modern Musketeer (1917); Les Trois Mousquetaires (serial, 1921); The Three Musketeers (US, 1921) featuring Douglas Fairbanks; The Three Musketeers (12-episode serial, 1933). Comics: Black Cat Mystery #49, Jackpot Comics #6, Kid Eternity #1 and 4, Hit Comics #41 and 55.
Description Set between 1625 and 1628, Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 The Three Musketeers recounts the adventures of a young man named d’Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d’Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d’Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he is befriended by three of the most formidable musketeers of the agem Athos, Porthos and Aramis, “the three musketeers” or “the three inseparables”, and becomes involved in affairs of state and at court. Dumas frequently portrays various injustices, abuses and absurdities of the Ancien Régime, giving the novel an additional political significance at the time of its publication, a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce. The story was first serialised from March to July 1844, during the July Monarchy, four years before the French Revolution of 1848 established the Second Republic. The story of d’Artagnan is continued in Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.
The Three Musketeers (undated, unpublished) — ink and gouache over graphite on illustration board; possibly intended for an issue of Thriller Picture Library; from the Al Williamson Collection at Heritage Auctions | H. M. Brock
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