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d’Artagnan Romances

The d’Artagnan Romances follow the seventeenth-century adventures of d’Artagnan, a fictionalised version of the real musketeer captain Charles de Batz-Castelmore d’Artagnan. Dumas drew heavily on the semi-fictional memoirs published by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras in 1700, combining real historical figures and events with adventure, intrigue and friendship.

The main series consists of The Three Musketeers, set from 1625 to 1628; Twenty Years After, set during the upheavals of 1648–1649; and the much longer The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, set between 1660 and 1673. The final novel is often divided into separate volumes, most commonly The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Vallière and The Man in the Iron Mask. Dumas also wrote The Red Sphinx, an incomplete sequel to The Three Musketeers centred on Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, Louis XIII and the Count of Moret rather than the musketeers themselves.

Reading order

Books in this series (6 books)

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#2 – The Red Sphinx

Alexandre Dumas

Red Sphinx picks up right where the The Three Musketeers left off, continuing the stories of Cardinal Richelieu, Queen Anne, and King Louis XIII and introducing a charming new hero, the Comte de Moret, a real historical figure from the period. A young cavalier newly arrived…

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#3 – Twenty Years After

Alexandre Dumas

Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, and in England, Cromwell threatens to send Charles…

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#5 – The Man in the Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas

You are about to hear," said Aramis, "an account which few could now give; for it refers to a secret which they buried with their dead...." So begins the magnificent concluding story of the swashbuckling Musketeers--Aramis, Athos, Porthos, and D'Artagnan. Aramis--plotting against the King of France--bribes…

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#6 – Louise de la Valli`ere

Alexandre Dumas

Louise de la Vallière serves as the second major installment of the massive final cycle, plunging the characters into the heart of King Louis XIV's glittering but dangerous court. The story focuses heavily on the shifting romantic alliances and intense jealousy surrounding the title character, whose…