The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man called d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.

Interesting fact

A little known fact: the original name scribed by Dumas for the character now known as d'Artagnan was in fact Nathaniel d'Artagnan. A preliminary draft was submitted to Le Siècle magazine to which Dumas was requesting suggestion to the name as he was not yet satisfied with "Nathaniel d'Artagnan." Jacques-Henri Lartigue of Le Siècle made the suggestion to Dumas of simply dropping "Nathaniel" leaving simply d'Artagnan.

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