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''The Three Musketeers'' ( (:le tʁwa muskətɛʁ)) is a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas. Set in 1625, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although D'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age: Athos, Porthos and Aramis and gets involved in affairs of the state and court. In genre, ''The Three Musketeers'' is primarily a historical and adventure novel . However, Dumas also frequently works into the plot various injustices, abuses and absurdities of the old regime, giving the novel an additional political aspect at a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce. The story was first serialized from March to July 1844, during the July Monarchy, four years before the French Revolution of 1848 violently established the Second Republic. The author's father, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, had been a well-known General in France's Republican army during the French Revolutionary Wars. The story of d'Artagnan is continued in ''Twenty Years After'' and ''The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later''. ==Origin== In the very first sentences of his preface, Alexandre Dumas indicated as his source ''Mémoires de Monsieur d'Artagnan'' (1700), a historical novel by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras, which Dumas discovered during his research for his history of Louis XIV, printed by Pierre Rouge in Amsterdam. It was in this book, he said, that d'Artagnan relates his first visit to M. de Tréville, captain of the Musketeers, where in the antechamber he met three young Béarnese with the names Athos, Porthos and Aramis. This information struck the imagination of Dumas so much—he tells us—that he continued his investigation and finally encountered once more the names of the three musketeers in a manuscript with the title ''Mémoire de M. le comte de la Fère, etc.''. Elated—so continues his yarn—he asked permission to reprint the manuscript. Permission granted: Now, this is the first part of this precious manuscript which we offer to our readers, restoring it to the title which belongs to it, and entering into an engagement that if (of which we have no doubt) this first part should obtain the success it merits, we will publish the second immediately. The book he referred to was ''Mémoires de M. d'Artagnan, capitaine lieutenant de la première compagnie des Mousquetaires du Roi'' (''Memoirs of Sir d'Artagnan, Lieutenant Captain of the first company of the King's Musketeers'') by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (Cologne, 1700). The book was borrowed from the Marseille public library, and the card-index remains to this day; Dumas kept the book when he went back to Paris. Following Dumas's lead in his preface, Eugène d'Auriac (de la Bibliothèque Royale) in 1847 was able to write the biography of d'Artagnan: ''d'Artagnan, Capitaine-Lieutenant des Mousquetaires– Sa vie aventureuse– Ses duels– etc.'' based on Courtilz de Sandras.〔Editions de La Table Ronde, Paris, 1993 ISBN 2-7103-0559-3〕 ''The Three Musketeers'' was written in collaboration with Auguste Maquet, who also worked with Dumas on its sequels (''Twenty Years After'' and ''The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later''), as well as ''The Count of Monte Cristo''. Maquet would suggest plot outlines after doing historical research; Dumas then expanded the plot, removing some characters, including new ones, and imbuing the story with his unmistakable style. ''The Three Musketeers'' was first published in serial form in the newspaper ''Le Siècle'' between March and July 1844. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Three Musketeers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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