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The Three Musketeers
(
French
:
Les Trois Mousquetaires
) is a
novel
of
adventure fiction
by
Alexandre Dumas, pere
. It is the story of a young man named
d'Artagnan
. He leaves home to become a
musket
eer of the guard of King
Louis XIII of France
. He and his friends
Athos
,
Porthos
, and
Aramis
live by the
motto
, "One for all, and all for one" (
French
:
Un pour tous, et tous pour un!
).
The story of d'Artagnan is continued in
Twenty Years After
and
The Vicomte de Bragelonne
. Those three novels by Dumas are together known as the
D'Artagnan Romances
.
The Three Musketeers
was first published in serial form in the magazine
Le Siecle
between March and July 1844. All the books sold well and made plenty of money for Dumas. The story was later made into several plays and movies.