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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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1. The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

First published 1973

3.6(29)

In the reign of Louis XIII, young d’Artagnan travels to Paris determined to join the king’s musketeers and quickly becomes inseparable from Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Their duels and adventures draw them into the struggle between Queen Anne of Austria and Cardinal Richelieu, particularly a dangerous…

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2. The Red Sphinx

Alexandre Dumas

First published 1946

4.2(218)

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

First published 1800

2.9(9)

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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4. The Vicomte de Bragelonne

Alexandre Dumas

First published 1848

4.4(512)

Decades after the adventures of The Three Musketeers, d’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis are older men serving different loyalties in the court of Louis XIV. The sprawling novel moves through royal romance, political rivalry and the consolidation of the young king’s power, while old friendships are…

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5. The Man in the Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas

First published 2006

4.0(11)

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

4.1(363)

At the court of Louis XIV, Louise de la Vallière becomes the centre of a dangerous shift in royal and private loyalties when the young king falls in love with her. Her relationship with Raoul, the son of Athos, is shattered, and the older musketeers find…