<Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne </Td> </Tr> <P> The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires (le tʁwa muskətɛʁ)) is a historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas . </P> <P> Set in 1625--1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (based on Charles de Batz - Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard . Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age--Athos, Porthos and Aramis--and gets involved in affairs of the state and court . </P> <P> In genre, The Three Musketeers is primarily a historical and adventure novel . However, Dumas also frequently works into the plot various injustices, abuses, and absurdities of the old regime, giving the novel an additional political aspect at a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce . The story was first serialised from March to July 1844, during the July Monarchy, four years before the French Revolution of 1848 violently established the Second Republic . The author's father, Thomas - Alexandre Dumas, had been a well - known General in France's Republican army during the French Revolutionary Wars . </P>

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