The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

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Résumé :
The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires, is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice. Set between 1625 and 1628, it 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 age - Athos, Porthos and Aramis, the three musketeers or the three inseparables - and becomes involved in affairs of state and at court. The Three Musketeers is primarily a historical and adventure novel. However, Dumas frequently portrays various injustices, abuses and absurdities of the Ancien R?gime, 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. (wikipedia.org)

Biographie:
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) byl plodn? francouzsk? spisovatel zn?m? sv?mi dobrodru?n?mi historick?mi rom?ny. Jeho d?la, v?etn? T?? mu?ket?r? a Hrab? Monte Christo, jsou proslul? bohat?m p??b?hem a nad?asov?mi t?maty spravedlnosti a pomsty....

Sommaire:
French author and playwright Alexandre Dumas fils is best known for his romantic novel La Dame aux Cam?lias (The Lady of the Camellias), published in 1848. Giuseppe Verdi adapted it into his opera La traviata (The Fallen Woman), which debuted in 1853. Other notable works by Dumas fils include a number of stage and film adaptations, which are usually titled Camille in English-language adaptations. The playwright Alexandre Dumas p?re (father), the author of classic works including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, was the father of Dumas fils (French for son). Dumas fils received the L?gion d'honneur (Legion of Honour) in 1894 after being accepted into the Acad?mie fran?aise (French Academy) in 1874. The illegitimate child of tailor Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794-1868) and novelist Alexandre Dumas, Dumas was born in Paris, France. His father gave him official recognition in 1831 and made sure the young Dumas attended the Coll?ge Bourbon and the Institution Goubaux for the greatest education available. The elder Dumas was then permitted by law to remove the child from his mother. The younger Dumas was driven to write about sad female characters by her anguish....