Welcome to 2023! On Mondays this year, let’s discuss and have fun with books. No I’m not writing book reviews. But this website is for writers, and writers like books right? So let’s have FUN with books!
Week 8 – The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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Les Trois Mousquetaires, the original title, was written in 1844. It is a historical novel set in France in 1625-1628, and recounts the adventures of d'Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) when he travels to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers. He is befriended by Athos, Porthos, and Aramis [the three musketeers] and joins them in various adventures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers
https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Three-Musketeers
The novel is based on a real person, Charles Ogier de Batz de Castelmore, sieur d’Artagnan.
https://historytheinterestingbits.com/2016/12/30/the-real-dartagnan/
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The Three Musketeers is the first of three novels by Dumas that make up the D’Artagnan Romances. The second was published in 1845 as Twenty Years After, and the third in 1847 as The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, which includes a section known as “The Man in the Iron Mask”.
It has been adapted for stage and film on multiple occasions
https://bookriot.com/three-musketeers-adaptations/
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| From the 1921 film |
My favorite is the 1993 Disney version
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108333/
Dictionary.com
(1844) A novel by the French author Alexandre Dumas, set in seventeenth-century France. The Three Musketeers are comrades of the central character, D'Artagnan, a man younger than they, who becomes a musketeer after performing many daring deeds. The motto of the Three Musketeers is “All for one and one for all.”
Vocabulary.com
Before World War I, a musketeer was a member of the infantry who carried a specific type of weapon called a musket. Today, you're probably most likely to find this word referring to the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas called "The Three Musketeers." If you guessed the book is about three soldiers who carry muskets, you're right! It's also not unusual for adults to describe a group of three close pals as "the three musketeers."
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I loved The Three Musketeers, both the novel and the movie(s). A brilliant story. I had never heard of the middle novel of this trilogy, but I had heard of (but not read) The Man in the Iron Mask. I never realized it was based on a real person.
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