The Musketeers of Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas was the grandson of a Gallic Lord and a Creole adult female from Haiti ( because his son was also discover Alexandre , the author of " The Three Musketeers " is referred to as Dumas , père ) . He start his career as a playwright in Paris in the 1820s and run short on to become one of the most democratic novelist of his time .
" The Three Musketeers " was first bring out in serial form in the French clip Le Siècle in 1844 [ seed : Rafferty ] . This partly excuse the cliff - hanger predicaments that end many of the chapter . The book of account became an instant achiever .
Dumas adapted the story from an unknown , semifictional memoir about a musketeer named D’Artagnan . The tangible D’Artagnan joined the Musketeers of the Guard in 1632 , later than his fictional counterpart , and served mostly under Louis XIV , who became king in 1643 . He became commander of the Musketeers and was killed in war in 1673 [ source : Scott , Necessary ] . The other main musketeer characters also had real - living opposite number , with names similar to those used in the novel . Dumas transform the complicated history of the period into a tarradiddle ofloveand risky venture .
In the novel , D’Artagnan comes to Paris from rural Gascony flex on becoming a prestigious Musketeer of the Guard . He fall in with the three musketeers and becomes their snug comrade . The musketeers are then draw into a complicated machination involve the Cardinal , the English Earl of Buckingham , King Louis XIII and Queen Anne . A secret agent known as Milady emerges as D’Artagnan ’s nemesis . The al-Qur’an abounds in tale of war , locomotion , romance and adventure , with D’Artagnan becoming an official Musketeer along the way .
Like some modern writer of best - marketer , Dumas churned out book on an industrial scale . He wrote so voluminously that he had to engage assistants to help him . " But , " as critic Terence Rafferty points out , " if Dumas was a hack , he was a hack with genius . His storytelling never seems the least bit mechanically skillful : no assemblage railway line , then or now , could ever turn out a story as joyful , as eccentric , as maddeningly human as " The Three Musketeers " [ source : Rafferty ] .
" The Three Musketeers " has been adapt over and over into movies and stage productions . There have been comical version , silent versions and Technicolor extravaganzas . One of the latest big screen interpretation is a 2011 3 - 500 movie starring the role player Logan Lerman [ source : Internet Movie Database ] .
If you ’re wondering how modern audience could be draw to so many dissimilar rendering of the same classical tale , just touch on back to the scene – that competitiveness between D’Artagnan and the cardinal ’s soldier Jussac – examined in the first paragraph of this clause . How did it play out ? The impatient Jussac sprang ahead , allowing the young musketeer wannabe to skewer him – and then proceed to his next adventure .
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