Set in the days of pre-revolutionary France, the novel revolves around a young man D’Artagnan and his obsession with joining the Musketeers, an elite guard that protects the French King.
D’Artagnan reaches Paris from his native province of Gascony with a letter of introduction from his late father. However, due to an unfortunate series of circumstances, he loses the letter of introduction. He manages to meet the three of the musketeers, Athos, Pothos and Aramis; the three are also close friends who live by the novel’s famous motto “One for all and All for one.” Without his letter, though, D’Artagnan is received coldly by the Musketeers who look at him as just another young man with adventurous ideas.The Musketeers are opposed by Richelieu, the power hungry and Machiavellian cardinal of France and the real power behind the French throne. The French King, Louis XIII, is young and inexperienced in matters of state and is easily manipulated by the wily Richelieu who constantly seeks to curtail royal power and expand his own authority. Since, the musketeers answer directly to the French King and not to him, Richelieu views them as a threat and craftily seeks to disband them and when unsuccessful, schemes to destroy them altogether.
Camaraderie, loyalty, illicit romance and political intrigue all create an atmosphere of intense suspense and anticipation. The collegiality of D'Artagnan and the Musketeers is centred around the famous slogan "One for all and All for One".
As an increasingly assertive Louis seeks to establish his own power, the Cardinal plans to do away with him altogether and sets up an assassin to kill the king. The story dwells on how D’Artagnan and his musketeer friends protect the king, outwitting the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and his sinister spies.
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"The Three Musketeers" is a novel by the noted French Playwright and novelist, Alexander Dumas. Set in the backdrop of the French political scene before the French revolution, the novel details the adventures of a young man, 
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