"The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas

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Publisher: International Collector's Library
Binding: Madame de Pompadour Binding
Pages: 439

Original Publish Date: 1844
Country: France
Genre: Adventure Fiction

Synopsis: "The story opens with D'Artagnan, impetuous and warm-hearted Gascon adventurer, leaving for Paris, eager to join the corps of musketeers who serve Louis XIII. He meets three of the musketeers and after besting them in a duel, is amicably accepted as a companion. Great events are happening. Cardinal Richelieu, the shrewd prelate who is the king's prime minister, has set about strengthening the central government, consolidating the power of France after the Thirty Years' War, and crushing the Huguenots as a separate political group. More important, so far as the four young guardsmen are concerned, is the fact that the cardinal is feuding with the queen--Anne of Austria--and seeking to expose her romantic indiscretions to the king. D'Artagnan and his gay companions become involved in a counterplot, and many are their hairbreadth escapes from death as they finally outwit Richelieu's devious intrigues."

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