Three Musketeers

Author: Alexandre Dumas
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: This book depicts the story of several musketeers serving the Queen in the early 1620s during the reign of King Louis XIII of France, who travel to England to retrieve a string of diamonds for the Queen. The Three Musketeers is one of the major works of Alexandre Dumas, a renowned French popular historical novelist. The protagonist, d'Artagnan, is a nobleman from the provinces who arrives in Paris and joins the musketeers of King Louis XIII, forming a close friendship with three other musketeers. The Queen Anne gifts a string of diamond earrings to the Duke of Buckingham; meanwhile, the Prime Minister Richelieu, who is at odds with the kingdom, sends someone to England to steal two diamonds from the earrings, intending to humiliate the Queen at the ball. D'Artagnan volunteers to go to England with his three friends, and after numerous twists and turns, they finally retrieve the earrings, saving the Queen's reputation.