The Three Musketeers

Dumas’s novel of d’Artagnan, a young Gascon who comes to Paris in 1625 to join the King’s Musketeers and, with his friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis, is drawn into the intrigues between Queen Anne, the Duke of Buckingham and Cardinal Richelieu.

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Famous quotes

• Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures.

  Chapter IIn context

  • Advice
  • Courage

• All for one, one for all, that is our motto.

  Ch. 9: D’Artagnan Shows Himself.In context

  • Friendship

• Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

  Chapter XIIn context

  • Love

• Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.

  Chapter XLVIIIIn context

  • Life & Death
  • Philosophy

Contents

1. Author’s Preface
2. Chapter IThe Three Presents of D’Artagnan the Elder
3. Chapter IIThe Antechamber of M. de Tréville
4. Chapter IIIThe Audience
5. Chapter IVThe Shoulder of Athos, the Baldric of Porthos and the Handkerchief of Aramis
6. Chapter VThe King’s Musketeers and the Cardinal’s Guards
7. Chapter VIHis Majesty King Louis XIII
8. Chapter VIIThe Interior of the Musketeers
9. Chapter VIIIConcerning a Court Intrigue
10. Chapter IXD’Artagnan Shows Himself
11. Chapter XA Mousetrap in the Seventeenth Century
12. Chapter XIIn Which the Plot Thickens
13. Chapter XIIGeorge Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
14. Chapter XIIIMonsieur Bonacieux
15. Chapter XIVThe Man of Meung
16. Chapter XVMen of the Robe and Men of the Sword
17. Chapter XVIIn Which M. Séguier, Keeper of the Seals, Looks More than Once for the Bell
18. Chapter XVIIBonacieux at Home
19. Chapter XVIIILover and Husband
20. Chapter XIXPlan of Campaign
21. Chapter XXThe Journey
22. Chapter XXIThe Countess de Winter
23. Chapter XXIIThe Ballet of La Merlaison
24. Chapter XXIIIThe Rendezvous
25. Chapter XXIVThe Pavilion
26. Chapter XXVPorthos
27. Chapter XXVIAramis and His Thesis
28. Chapter XXVIIThe Wife of Athos
29. Chapter XXVIIIThe Return
30. Chapter XXIXHunting for the Equipments
31. Chapter XXXD’Artagnan and the Englishman
32. Chapter XXXIEnglish and French
33. Chapter XXXIIA Procurator’s Dinner
34. Chapter XXXIIISoubrette and Mistress
35. Chapter XXXIVIn Which the Equipment of Aramis and Porthos Is Treated Of
36. Chapter XXXVA Gascon a Match for Cupid
37. Chapter XXXVIDream of Vengeance
38. Chapter XXXVIIMilady’s Secret
39. Chapter XXXVIIIHow, Without Incommoding Himself, Athos Procures His Equipment
40. Chapter XXXIXA Vision
41. Chapter XLA Terrible Vision
42. Chapter XLIThe Siege of La Rochelle
43. Chapter XLIIThe Anjou Wine
44. Chapter XLIIIThe Sign of the Red Dovecot
45. Chapter XLIVThe Utility of Stovepipes
46. Chapter XLVA Conjugal Scene
47. Chapter XLVIThe Bastion Saint-Gervais
48. Chapter XLVIIThe Council of the Musketeers
49. Chapter XLVIIIA Family Affair
50. Chapter XLIXFatality
51. Chapter LChat Between Brother and Sister
52. Chapter LIOfficer
53. Chapter LIICaptivity: The First Day
54. Chapter LIIICaptivity: The Second Day
55. Chapter LIVCaptivity: The Third Day
56. Chapter LVCaptivity: The Fourth Day
57. Chapter LVICaptivity: The Fifth Day
58. Chapter LVIIMeans for Classical Tragedy
59. Chapter LVIIIEscape
60. Chapter LIXWhat Took Place at Portsmouth August 23, 1628
61. Chapter LXIn France
62. Chapter LXIThe Carmelite Convent at Béthune
63. Chapter LXIITwo Varieties of Demons
64. Chapter LXIIIThe Drop of Water
65. Chapter LXIVThe Man in the Red Cloak
66. Chapter LXVTrial
67. Chapter LXVIExecution
68. Chapter LXVIIConclusion
69. Epilogue