Category: Book The Three Musketeers

Chivalry Among Men in The Novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas The element of chivalry overshadows everything else in Alexandre Dumas’s historical romance, The Three Musketeers. The work was set against the background of King Louis VIII’s France. It was a time of intrigue, treachery and machinations in high places, an atmosphere in which…

Set in the 1620s, the novel opens with D’Artagnan, an honest young man from Gascony. He plans to begin a military career in Paris. D’Artagnan is from a noble family but not a very wealthy one. To Paris, he’s taking a letter of introduction written by his father for Monsieur de Treville, who is captain…