The Three Musketeers

Les Trois Mousquetaires

Alexandre DumasAD 1802–1870

First published AD 1844, written in French

The Three Musketeers is a French historical adventure novel written and published in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is the first of the author's three d'Artagnan Romances. As with some of his other works, he wrote it in collaboration with ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice.