D’Artagnan series

Dumas’ most famous novel is set in the 17th century, it concerns the adventures of the young and hotheaded D’Artagnan, who travels to Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard. The story is continued in two sequels: Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.

This novel is the sequel to The Three Musketeers and is followed by The Vicomte de Bragelonne. It concerns events in France 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.

This novel is the third and last of the d’Artagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. Though there are many digressions, the protagonists of the novel are once more d’Artagnan and the original musketeer characters, who continue their daredevil adventures, immersed in political intrigue and hilarious comedy. The action takes place between 1660 and 1667 and concerns the transformation of Louis XIV from a weak boy king, dominated by his ministers and mother, to the Sun King in complete control of the French state.

The Musketeers: Complete D'Artagnan Series by Alexandre Dumas. Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) was a French writer. The complete adventures of d'Artagnan are told in the D'Artagnan Series that includes: The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise de la Valliere, The Man in the Iron Mask. Those novels by Dumas are together known as the d'Artagnan Romances. Set in the 17th century, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. 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 "all for one, one for all", a motto which is first put forth by d'Artagnan. Dumas based the life and character of d'Artagnan on the 17th-century captain of musketeers Charles de Batz-Castelmore from his humble beginnings in Gascony to his death as a marshal of France in the Siege of Maastricht in 1673.