Un des romans les plus connus de Dumas: Edmond Dantes, envoye en prison suite a une machination, va revenir apres de longues annees d'incarceration au chateau d'If, pour se venger de ceux qui ont monte ce complot contre lui..."

Un des romans les plus connus de Dumas: Edmond Dantes, envoye en prison suite a une machination, va revenir apres de longues annees d'incarceration au chateau d'If, pour se venger de ceux qui ont monte ce complot contre lui...

The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, pere. 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, and all for one." 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 novel follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War, leading up to the victory of Oliver Cromwell and the execution of King Charles I. Through the words of the main characters, particularly Athos, Dumas comes out on the side of the monarchy in general, or at least the text often praises the idea of benevolent royalty. His musketeers are valiant and just in their efforts to protect young Louis XIV and the doomed Charles I from their attackers.

Le roman raconte les aventures d'un Gascon desargente de 18 ans, d'Artagnan, monte a Paris faire carriere. Il se lie d'amitie avec Athos, Porthos et Aramis, mousquetaires du roi Louis XIII. Ces quatre hommes vont s'opposer au premier ministre, le Cardinal de Richelieu et a ses agents, dont la belle et mysterieuse Milady de Winter, pour sauver l'honneur de la reine de France Anne d'Autriche. Avec ses nombreux combats et ses rebondissements romanesques, Les Trois mousquetaires est l'exemple type du roman de cape et d'epee."

His father's aristocratic rank helped young Alexandre acquire work with Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orleans. He later began working as a writer, finding early success. Decades later, in the election of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte in 1851, Dumas fell from favor and left France for Belgium, where he stayed for several years. Upon leaving Belgium Dumas moved to Russia for a few years before going to Italy. In 1861 he founded and published the newspaper L' Indipendente, which supported the Italian unification effort. In 1864 he returned to Paris.

The story begins with a historical event - the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen - considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity. The main plot line, involving fictional characters, takes place in the following eighteen months; only gradually does the reader understand its connection with the killing of the de Witt brothers.

En 1672, Guillaume d'Orange prend le pouvoir en Hollande, profitant du massacre par le peuple des freres Jean et Corneille de Witt, accuses de tractations secretes avec la France. Accuse a tort de trahison et condamne, le jeune Cornelius van Baerle (filleul de Corneille de Witt), continue de se livrer a sa passion des tulipes en essayant de creer une tulipe noire, dont la decouverte sera recompensee par un prix de la societe horticole de Harlem.

Dumas raconte avoir debarque sur l'ile de beaute en mars 1841. Il y fait du tourisme et trouve a loger un beau soir a Sullacaro, chez la veuve de Franchi qui a deux jumeaux. Louis est avocat a Paris tandis que Lucien sera corse selon le mot d'un voisin. L'ecrivain touriste est fort impressionne par son hote (Lucien) qui l'installe dans la chambre libre de son frere"

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