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The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis-inseparable friends who live by the motto "one for all, all for one" ("un pour tous, tous pour un").

The story of d'Artagnan is continued in Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Those three novels by Dumas are together known as the D'Artagnan Romances.

The Three Musketeers was first published in serial form in the magazine Le Siècle between March and July 1844.

Historically, all of the 4 companions existed, but not in the way Dumas wrote. D'Artagnan never meet with any of the three musketeers.

Victor Hugo once said of Dumas: "Dumas raped history and had a child" (Dumas a violé l'histoire et en a fait un enfant).

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