The Three Musketeers

The young Gascon d'Artagnan comes to Paris to join the King's Musketeers and falls in with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, plunging into the intrigues of Louis XIII's court, Cardinal Richelieu, and the deadly Milady de Winter. Dumas ranges across a real seventeenth-century geography: the Musketeers' Paris and the Louvre, the dash to London to save the Queen's honour, the siege of La Rochelle, and the convent where Milady meets her end.

d'Artagnan

The Musketeers' Paris

The Gascon arrives

The hot-headed young Gascon d'Artagnan reaches Paris and, within a day, has arranged to duel Athos, Porthos and Aramis, only to fight beside them instead against the Cardinal's guards. Dumas plants his hero in the swaggering, sword-quick world of the Musketeers, where friendship is sealed in a shared brawl and the motto is all for one.

The opening chapters

explicit d'Artagnan arrives in the real Paris of Louis XIII to seek out M. de Tréville, captain of the King's Musketeers; sited in the city.

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