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Din păcate, cititorii de astăzi nici nu vor să audă de Alexandre Dumas.
Romanele de capă și spadă au ieșit din modă, Citim altceva. Sau nimic. E și asta o soluție, Cititul e o formă de lene”, a spus întro pagină de jurnal prozatorul Julien Green, Nimic mai adevărat

Cei trei muschetari, deci, Muscheta cu s era un soi de flintă / pușcă de aici numele eroilor, dar adevărații muschetari ai Regelui, bineînțeles foloseau în primul rînd spada, eschiva și fandarea.
Rivalii lor de moarte erau mercenarii cardinalului Richelieu, Un perfid! Firește, romanul celormuschetari este, în realitate, povestea celui deal patrulea, un tînăr gascon pe nume d'Artagnan, care nici măcar nu e muschetar la propriu,

va deveni abia la sfîrșit.
Povestea o știți. Și mai știți că frumoasa și malefica Milady are un semn pe umăr, un crin.
Și mai știți că muschetarii preferă să mănînce claponi bine rumeniți.
Și mai știți că gustosul clapon este, în realitate, un cocoș castrat, Și mai știți că Aramis a scris un poem de dragoste în versuri de o silabă, care se citește în numai două minute.
Și mai știți deviza Un pour tous, tous pour un!”, Gata.

Și totuși, Oare însuși Alexandre Dumas a scris acest roman Nui nici un secret, prozatorul a lucrat cu o echipă de negri”, mulți autori de astăzi procedează la fel.
Dumas a semnatde cărți, un singur om nu poate scrie atît de mult decît dacă a avut soarta lui Ahasverus.
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Nu am loc să dezvolt subiectul, Trimit la cărțile lui Bernard Fillaire, Alexandre Dumas et associésși Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet et associés.
Sa păstrat o scrisoare care ar fi trebuit pierdută, Numitul Auguste Maquet, pensionar se retrăsese din echipă, voia să intre în Societatea oamenilor de litere și avea nevoie de o recomandare.
Ia scris Patronului. A fost admis, dar numai cu titlul de colaborator”, În epistola amintită, Maquet îi mulțumește smerit lui Dumas și adaugă amănuntul nu lipsit de însemnătate că renunță la toate drepturile asupra romanului Cei trei muschetari.


E o problemă internă a francezilor, so rezolve Macron, eu nu mă bag, . .

P. S. Să nu uit. A mai fost, pînă la urmă, și un proces, Alexandre Dumas a fost obligat de judecători săi plătească lui Auguste Maquet o sumă considerabilă.
Na sărăcit This one tied me up for a while, but ultimately it is a great adventure story,
Written around, but set fromonwards, Dumas brings to the table on the hero side camaraderie, honour and intelligence, and on the side of the villains deception, plotting and cowardly poisoning.
But it is far from a fairytale of good vs bad,

Our heroic Musketeers D'Artagnan and "The Three", but I suppose The Four Musketeers doesn't have the same ring are not without fault Porthos is having an affair with a married woman, who steals from her husband for Porthos, Aramis can't decide between a woman and the priesthood, D'Artagnan using deception and lies to trick the villainous Milady.
They all treat women rather poorly, pick fights for unnecessary reasons, they are economic with the truth, and treat their servants with a mixture of distrust and contempt as well as often praising them for their bravery and faithfulness! Athos does not even let his servant speak.
Of course to a degree, this is all symptomatic of the time in history,

But ultimately the end justifies the means in most cases, and the Musketeers are the loveable rogues who manage to tread the line of honour without tipping too far into disrepute.
I suspect if the heroes in this book were too squeaky clean they would have much less appeal than the excellent antagonist characters, who are almost more likeable in their villainy.


There were a few disappointments for me at the commencement of the book, D'Artagnan meets his nemesis in Rochefort who he catches glimpses of during the novel, and only meets face to face again in the final chapter in what is probably the anticlimax of the book we are told in a sentence or two that they duel four times, then become friends.
There also lacked a little physical swordplay starting off well with some duelling and arguments, but it petered out as the book went on.
I expected more of that, mixed in with the plotting and intrigue,

But overall, an excellent read, good characters and an interesting setting in history, The initial tale where d'Artagnon as a relatively poor, relationless noble arriving in Paris and making friends with the legendary Porthos, Athos and Artemis and subsequently participating in a big adventure is one of the most exhilarating books of theth C in French literature.
While not a children's book due to the difficulty of the French text, the story itself is of course widely known and a favourite for story tellers using abridged or illustrated versions and for movie makers.
My advice is to read this one and savour it but then continue on toYear Later which is the sequel and is a fantastic story as well.
. . not to mention the crowning achievement IMHO of Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, This first volume takes place during the reign of Louis XIII and does present a nice portrait of life during this time of relative stability in French history.


This first volume is playful and light, Dumas uses this book to present four of his favorite protagonists: D'Artagnan, Portos, Athos, and Aramis along with their comicrelief porters and so on and the origins of their lifelong friendships.


Happy father note: I was super proud when myyear old son grabbed my copy off the bookshelf and read it cover to cover.
He then went on to the second book but kind of pooped out afterpages, understandable, . .

This is one of my favorite French books but I would highly recommend reading the entire seriesYears Later, and the three Vicomte de Bragelonne books to get the full picture.
Note that each book is set in a specific historical context:
Musketeers: reign Louis XIII
Years Later: Regence of Louis XIV and the Fronde
Vicomte de Bragelonne: Louis XIV early reign conflict with Fouquet
Vicomte de Bragelonne/Louse de Valiere: reign of Louis XIV and romantic intrigues at court
Vicomte de Bragelonne/Man in the Iron Mask: reign of Louis XIV and the fall of Fouquet

Despite adding some fictional elements well, lots of fictional elements and controversial interpretations such as making the very real and still mysterious Man in the Iron Mask to be Louis XIV's twin brother Philippe for which there is zero historical evidence, the scenes, costumes, manners and overall atmosphere is painstakingly realistic for the periods in which these books are set.
They are all extraordinary and among the works that Dumas put his own hand too in other words, he relied less on ghost writers for this series than nearly any of his other books.
Alexandre Dumass most famous tale and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time in a handsome hardcover volume.


This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derringdo, set in France during thes, is richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense.
Dumas transforms minor historical figures into larger thanlife characters: the Comte dArtagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory the beguilingly evil seductress “Milady” the powerful and devious Cardinal Richelieu the weak King Louis XIII and his unhappy queenand, of course, the three musketeers themselves, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, whose motto “all for one, one for all” has come to epitomize devoted friendship.
With a plot that delivers stolen diamonds, masked balls, purloined letters, and, of course, great bouts of swordplay, The Three Musketeers is eternally entertaining.
This is going to take some explaining, but my guiltiest pleasure when it comes to books is sitelinkAlexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers.


I hear you saying, "How on Earth can that be a guilty pleasure" I know.
It's a recognized classic. It has far reaching pop culture impact, It's considered one of the greatest adventures ever written, It has two of the most memorable "villains" in literature it has four kick ass action heroes.
It has sword fights, romance, intrigue, and most people think it has big laughs it doesn't, which is the thing that pisses me off most about its pop culture adaptations.
Even if people haven't read the book they know the Three Musketeers, Hell, most people even know that D'Artagnan, the main "hero" of the book, is not one of the eponymous "Three".
So how could this book be a guilty pleasure The answer is simple at first, then its complex.


Simple answer: Milady de Winter,

Complex answer: Milady de Winter,

From the accepted perspective, Milady is an unrepentant, nasty, evil, femme fatale, She is an agent for the "villainous" Cardinal Richelieu, spying on, plotting against and battling our Musketeers at every turn.
She foments marital unrest between the King and Queen, She plots the assassination of the Englishman, the Duke of Buckingham, to stop him from aiding the Huguenots at La Rochelle.
She tries to kill D'Artagnan and later poisons his mistress, Constance Bonacieux, She corrupts a fine, upstanding Puritan man, And once upon a time, she made a fool of the Comte de La Fère,

She is the accepted villain, even worse than her master the Cardinal, for whom and under whose auspices she commits her evil acts.
She is the villain, and D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis are the heroes,

Here's the problem, though, from another perspective she isn't and they aren't,

You see, Milady de Winter was a poor young woman who did what she must to survive.
Forced into a convent for want of food, a priest fell in love with her and the pair stole some church property to start a life together.
They were caught, and both were "branded" with the fleurdelys the mark of criminals, Alone again, she fell in love with the Comte de La Fère, They were married, and she hid her crimes from him, Then one afternoon the Comte discovered her brand, He felt betrayed and strung her up by her neck, leaving her to die,

She lived and entered the service of the Cardinal, Under his direction, she became a powerful agent, doing exactly what it is that agents do, The Cardinal the right hand of the King, connected to the Pope, a man waging a war in the King's name, the most powerful man in France has Milady undermine the King's Queen, Anne of Austria, a woman having an affair with the man Duke of Buckingham who is helping the rebels within her husband's kingdom.
She is also asked to keep tabs on a troublesome young guard, D'Artagnan, who seems to be thwarting the Cardinal's plans through sheer luck and Gascon audacity.
She complies.

Then the man she is spying on kills her lover, the Comte de Wardes, And if that isn't bad enough, the man she's spying on turns up in her bedchamber posing as the Comte and proceeds to "make love" to Milady.
The "lovemaking" is so "wonderful" that D'Artagnan decides to come clean and reveal his true identity, Milady loses her temper with some cause, I think and tries to stab D'Artagnan which he doesn't seem to understand.
From then on, Milady wants vengeance against the murderer of her lover, who also happens to be her rapist for that is what he is, surely.


Next, she is charged with assassinating the Duke of Buckingham, for which she is issued a carte blanche by the Cardinal, but her enemy, D'Artagnan committing treason against his own King and country warns the Duke, and she is banished to a tower while the Duke sails off to aid the Huguenots.
Well, she isn't about to languish in prison, so she seduces a Puritan and makes her escape, winding up in a convent in France where she can hide out.
Lucky for her, D'Artagnan's mistress, a married woman whom he was bedding while he was raping Milady, is also hiding out in the convent, so Milady de Winter takes the portion of vengeance at her disposal and kills D'Artagnan's lover as he killed hers.


And for all of this, the Four Musketeers, now in possession of her carte blanche, hold their own little court, pass judgement on Milady and have her head separated from her shoulders.
And they get away with it because they have the Cardinal's signature on Milady's carte blanche which allows the bearer to do whatever they do for the good of the kingdom.


It seems to me that Alexandre Dumas knew that perspective would dictate how we saw his heroes and villains, and that he was okay with his muddied good and evil waters.
He was writing from the Musketeers' perspective, and he knew that his readers would side with them against the Cardinal and Milady.
But he also wrote in a way that complicated his Musketeers, So much so that we accept when D'Artagnan receives and accepts a commission to the Musketeers from the Cardinal himself.
He wanted his characters to be grey, and they were,

So why is this a guilty pleasure especially if the guilt doesn't come from Dumas' writing I am finally getting there.


The weight of popular culture has changed the way we see this story so thoroughly, has morphed the Musketeers so completely into righteous heroes, turned D'Artagnan into such a loveable heartthrob and his companions into the most likeable of heroes, that it is nearly impossible for people to see the things that make them grey.


But I see them for who they are, I see the grey.

So here comes the guilt: I see the Four Musketeers crimes treason, rape, murder, theft and all their flaws cruelty, greed, hypocrisy, entitlement, adulterousness to name but a few and I still love them.
I love them, and I enjoy reading their adventures, and I cheer for them from beginning to end.


I shouldn't, but I do, and that's why The Three Musketeers is my guiltiest of pleasures.
So there.

p. s. I love Milady de Winter too, For all the things she is, .