Les trois mousquetaires, Volume 1 (of 2)

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870

Contributor:

Maquet, Auguste, 1813-1888

Leloir, Maurice, 1853-1940

Language:

French

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Les trois mousquetaires, Volume 1 (of 2)" by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet is a historical novel written in the early 19th century. The story is set in 1625 France and centers around the young and ambitious d'Artagnan, who dreams of joining the King's Musketeers and embarks on a journey filled with adventure, camaraderie, and danger alongside the famed musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. The opening of the novel introduces us to d'Artagnan, a young man from Gascony who sets out to Paris with a few possessions, including a letter of introduction to Monsieur de Tréville, the captain of the King's Musketeers. His journey begins with an unfortunate encounter at an inn where his old horse becomes the subject of ridicule, leading to a comical duel with a mysterious gentleman. This courtship of honor and bravado sets the stage for the life d'Artagnan will encounter in Paris, as he seeks to prove himself worthy of the fame of the Three Musketeers and ultimately make his mark in the royal court's intrigues and battles ahead. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Credits:

Produced by Claudine Corbasson, Hans Pieterse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)

Notes:

Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Trois_Mousquetaires

Reading ease score: 79.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Release date is 2017-11-26