D'Artagnan Romances

D'Artagnan Romances

The d'Artagnan Romances are a set of three novels by Alexandre Dumas telling the story of the musketeer d'Artagnan from his humble beginnings in Gascony to his death as a marshal of France in the siege of Maastricht in 1673.

Dumas based the life and character of d'Artagnan on the 17th century captain of musketeers Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan, and Dumas' portrayal was indebted to the semi-fictionalized memoirs of d'Artagnan written 27 years after the hero's death by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (published in 1700).

The three novels are:
* "The Three Musketeers", set in 1625; first published in serial form in the magazine "Le Siècle" between March and July 1844. Dumas claimed it was based on manuscripts he had discovered in the Bibliothèque Nationale.
* "Twenty Years After", set in 1648; serialized from January to August, 1845.
* "", set between 1660 and 1673; serialized from October 1847 to January 1850. This vast novel has been split into three, four, or five volumes at various points in the history.
** In the three-volume edition, the novels are titled "The Vicomte de Bragelonne", "Louise de la Vallière" and "The Man in the Iron Mask".
** In the four-volume edition, the novels are titled "The Vicomte de Bragelonne", "Ten Years Later", "Louise de la Vallière" and "The Man in the Iron Mask".
** The five-volume edition generally does not give titles to the smaller portions.

The novels The Son of Porthos, and D'Artagnan Kingmaker, two further sequels to the d'Artagnan books were published, the first in 1883 the second in 1900. D'Artagnan does not appear in the first novel, which, although written by Paul Mahalin, was published under the pen-name of Alexandre Dumas and is still sold as such, and the second was supposedly based on one of Dumas' plays. Dumas himself died in 1870.


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