The Three Musketeers - wikipedia The Three Musketeers For other uses, see The Three Musketeers ( disambiguation ). For the novel 's film adaptations, see The Three Musketeers in film. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2016 ) The Three Musketeers `` D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos '' Image by Maquet Original title Les Trois Mousquetaires Country France Language French Genre Historical novel, Adventure novel Publication date March -- July 1844 ( serialised ) Pages c. 700 ( depending on edition ) Followed by Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne The Three Musketeers ( French : Les Trois Mousquetaires ( le tʁwa muskətɛʁ ) ) is a historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. 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. 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. The story of d'Artagnan is continued in Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne : Ten Years Later. Contents 1 Origin 2 Plot summary 3 Characters 4 Editions 5 Adaptations 5.1 Film 5.2 Television 5.2. 1 Live - action 5.2. 2 Animation 5.3 Stage 5.4 Video games and board games 5.5 Web Series 5.6 Other 6 References 7 External links Origin A Musketeer of the Guard c. 1660. In the very first sentences of his preface, Alexandre Dumas indicated as his source Mémoires de Monsieur d'Artagnan ( 1700 ), a historical novel by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras, which Dumas discovered during his research for his history of Louis XIV, printed by Pierre Rouge in Amsterdam. It was in this book, he said, that d'Artagnan relates his first visit to M. de Tréville, captain of the Musketeers, where in the antechamber, he met three young Béarnese with the names Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. This information struck the imagination of Dumas so much -- he tells us -- that he continued his investigation and finally encountered once more the names of the three musketeers in a manuscript with the title Mémoire de M. le comte de la Fère, etc... Excited, Dumas requested permission to reprint the manuscript -- a permission which was granted : Now, this is the first part of this precious manuscript which we offer to our readers, restoring it to the title which belongs to it, and entering into an engagement that if ( of which we have no doubt ) this first part should obtain the success it merits, we will publish the second immediately. In the meanwhile, since godfathers are second fathers, as it were, we beg the reader to lay to our account, and not to that of the Comte de la Fère, the pleasure or the ennui he may experience. This being understood, let us proceed with our story. The book he referred to was Mémoires de M. d'Artagnan, capitaine lieutenant de la première compagnie des Mousquetaires du Roi ( Memoirs of Sir d'Artagnan, Lieutenant Captain of the first company of the King 's Musketeers ) by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras ( Cologne, 1700 ). The book was borrowed from the Marseille public library, and the card - index remains to this day ; Dumas kept the book when he went back to Paris. Following Dumas 's lead in his preface, Eugène d'Auriac ( de la Bibliothèque Royale ) in 1847 was able to write the biography of d'Artagnan : d'Artagnan, Capitaine - Lieutenant des Mousquetaires -- Sa vie aventureuse -- Ses duels -- etc. based on Courtilz de Sandras. The Three Musketeers was written in collaboration with Auguste Maquet, who also worked with Dumas on its sequels ( Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne : Ten Years Later ), as well as The Count of Monte Cristo. Maquet would suggest plot outlines after doing historical research ; Dumas then expanded the plot, removing some characters, including new ones, and imbuing the story with his unmistakable style. The Three Musketeers was first published in serial form in the newspaper Le Siècle between March and July 1844. Plot summary In 1625 France, d'Artagnan ( a poor young nobleman ) leaves his family in Gascony and travels to Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard. At an inn in Meung - sur - Loire, an older man derides d'Artagnan's horse. Insulted, d'Artagnan demands a duel. The older man 's companions beat d'Artagnan unconscious with a cooking pot and a metal tong that breaks his sword. His letter of introduction to Monsieur de Tréville, the commander of the Musketeers, is also stolen. D'Artagnan resolves to avenge himself upon the man ( who is later revealed to be the Comte de Rochefort, an agent of Cardinal Richelieu, who is passing orders from the Cardinal to his spy Lady de Winter, usually called Milady de Winter or simply Milady ). In Paris, d'Artagnan visits M. de Tréville at the headquarters of the Musketeers, but without the letter, Tréville politely refuses his application. He does, however, write a letter of introduction to an academy for young gentlemen which may prepare him for recruitment at a later time. From Tréville 's window, d'Artagnan sees Rochefort passing in the street below and rushes out of the building to confront him, but in doing so he offends three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, who each demand satisfaction ; d'Artagnan must fight a duel with all of them that afternoon. As d'Artagnan prepares himself for the first duel, he realizes that Athos ' seconds are Porthos and Aramis, who are astonished that the young Gascon intends to duel them all. As d'Artagnan and Athos begin, Cardinal Richelieu 's guards appear and try to arrest d'Artagnan and the three Musketeers for illegal dueling. Although outnumbered, the four men win the battle. D'Artagnan seriously wounds Jussac, one of the Cardinal 's officers and a renowned fighter. After learning of this, King Louis XIII appoints d'Artagnan to Des Essart 's company of the King 's Guards and gives him forty pistoles. Depiction of the Cardinal 's musketeers, the great rivals of the King 's musketeers. D'Artagnan hires a servant ( Planchet ), finds lodgings, and reports to Monsieur des Essart. Des Essart 's company is a less prestigious regiment in which he must serve for two years before being considered for the Musketeers. Shortly after, his landlord speaks to him about his wife Constance Bonacieux 's kidnapping. When she is presently released, d'Artagnan falls in love at first sight with her. She works for Queen Anne of France, who is secretly conducting an affair with the Duke of Buckingham. The King, Louis XIII, gave the Queen a gift of diamond studs but she gives them to her lover as a keepsake. Cardinal Richelieu, who wants war between France and England, plans to expose the tryst and persuades the King to demand the Queen wear the diamonds to a soirée that the Cardinal is sponsoring. Constance tries to send her husband to London but the man is manipulated by Richelieu and does not go, so d'Artagnan and his friends intercede. En route, the Cardinal 's henchmen repeatedly attack them and only d'Artagnan and Planchet reach London. Before arriving, d'Artagnan is compelled to assault and nearly kill the Comte de Wardes, a friend of the Cardinal, cousin of Rochefort and Milady 's lover. Although Milady stole two of the diamond studs, the Duke of Buckingham provides replacements while delaying the thief 's return to Paris. D'Artagnan is thus able to return a complete set of jewels to Queen Anne just in time to save her honour. In gratitude, she gives him a beautiful ring. Shortly afterwards, d'Artagnan begins an affair with Madame Bonacieux. Arriving for an assignation, he sees signs of a struggle and discovers that Rochefort and M. Bonacieux, acting under the orders of the Cardinal, have assaulted and imprisoned her. D'Artagnan and his friends, now recovered from their injuries, return to Paris. D'Artagnan meets Milady de Winter officially, and recognizes her as one of the Cardinal 's agents, but becomes infatuated with her until her maid reveals that Milady is indifferent toward him. Entering her quarters in the dark, he pretends to be the Comte de Wardes and trysts with her. He finds a fleur - de-lis branded on Milady 's shoulder, marking her as a felon. Discovering his identity, Milady attempts to kill him but d'Artagnan eludes her. He is ordered to the Siege of La Rochelle. He is informed that the Queen has rescued Constance from prison. In an inn, the musketeers overhear the Cardinal asking Milady to murder the Duke of Buckingham, a supporter of the Protestant rebels at La Rochelle who has sent troops to assist them. Richelieu gives her a letter that excuses her actions as under orders from the Cardinal himself, but Athos takes it. The next morning, Athos bets that he, d'Artagnan, Porthos, and Aramis, and their servants can hold the recaptured St. Gervais bastion against the rebels for an hour, for the purpose of discussing their next course of action. They resist for an hour and a half before retreating, killing 22 Rochellese in total. They warn Lord de Winter and the Duke of Buckingham. Milady is imprisoned on arrival in England but seduces her guard, Felton ( a fictionalization of the real John Felton ), and persuades him to allow her escape and to kill Buckingham himself. On her return to France, Milady hides in a convent where Constance is also staying. The naive Constance clings to Milady, who sees a chance for revenge on d'Artagnan, and fatally poisons Constance before d'Artagnan can rescue her. The Musketeers arrest Milady before she reaches Cardinal Richelieu. They bring an official executioner, put her on trial and sentence her to death. After her execution, the four friends return to the siege of La Rochelle. The Comte de Rochefort arrests d'Artagnan and takes him to the Cardinal. When questioned about Milady 's execution, d'Artagnan presents her letter of pardon as his own. Impressed with d'Artagnan's willfulness and secretly glad to be rid of Milady, the Cardinal destroys the letter and writes a new order, giving the bearer a promotion to lieutenant in the Tréville company of musketeers, leaving the name blank. D'Artagnan offers the letter to Athos, Porthos, and Aramis in turn but each refuses it ; Athos because it is below him, Porthos because he is retiring to marry his wealthy mistress and Aramis because he is joining the priesthood. D'Artagnan, though heartbroken and full of regrets, gets the promotion he coveted. Characters Musketeers Athos -- Comte de la Fère : he has never recovered from his marriage to Milady and seeks solace in wine. He becomes a father figure to d'Artagnan. Aramis -- René d'Herblay, a handsome young man who hesitates between his religious calling and his fondness for women and scheming. Porthos -- M. du Vallon : a dandy, fond of fashionable clothes and keen to make a fortune for himself. The least cerebral of the quartet, he compensates with his homeric strength of body and character. D'Artagnan -- Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan : a young, foolhardy, brave and clever man seeking his fortune in Paris. Musketeers ' servants Planchet -- a young man from Picardy, he is seen by Porthos on the Pont de la Tournelle spitting into the river below. Porthos takes this as a sign of good character and hires him on the spot to serve d'Artagnan. He turns out to be a brave, intelligent and loyal servant. Grimaud -- a Breton. Athos is a strict master, and only permits his servant to speak in emergencies ; he mostly communicates through sign language. Mousqueton -- originally a Norman named Boniface ; Porthos, however, changes his name to one that sounds better. He is a would - be dandy, just as vain as his master. In lieu of pay, he is clothed and lodged in a manner superior to that usual for servants, dressing grandly in his master 's old clothes. Bazin -- from the province of Berry, Bazin is a pious man who waits for the day his master ( Aramis ) will join the church, as he has always dreamed of serving a priest. Others Milady de Winter -- a beautiful and evil spy of the Cardinal, she is also Athos 's ex-wife. D'Artagnan impersonates a rival to spend a night with her, attracting her deadly hatred. Rochefort is a more conventional agent of the Cardinal. Following their duel on the road to Paris, d'Artagnan swears to have his revenge. He loses several opportunities, but their paths finally cross again towards the end of the novel. Constance Bonacieux -- the Queen 's seamstress and confidante. After d'Artagnan rescues her from the Cardinal 's guard, he immediately falls in love with her. She appreciates his protection, but the relationship is never consummated. Monsieur Bonacieux -- Constance 's husband. He initially enlists d'Artagnan's help to rescue his wife from the Cardinal 's guards, but when he himself is arrested, he and the Cardinal discover they have an understanding. Richelieu turns Monsieur Bonacieux against his wife, and he goes on to play a role in her abduction. Kitty -- a servant of Milady de Winter. She dislikes her mistress and adores d'Artagnan. Lord Winter - brother of Milady 's second husband, who died of a mysterious disease ( apparently poisoned by Milady ). He imprisoned Milady upon her arrival in England and decided to send her overseas in exile. Later, he took part in Milady 's trial. Historical characters King Louis XIII of France : presented by Dumas as a fairly weak monarch often manipulated by his chief minister. Queen Anne of Austria -- the unhappy Queen of France. Cardinal Richelieu : Armand Jean du Plessis, the King 's chief minister, who plots against the Queen in resentment at having his advances rebuffed. Dumas describes him as being `` 36 or 37 '' though in 1625 Richelieu was 40. M. de Tréville -- captain of The Musketeers, and something of a mentor to d'Artagnan, though he has only a minor role. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham - a handsome and charismatic man used to getting his way : he thinks nothing of starting a war between England and France for his personal convenience. His courtship of Anne of Austria gets her in trouble. John Felton -- a puritan officer assigned to guard Milady and warned about her ways, he is nonetheless seduced and fooled by her in a matter of days and assassinates Buckingham at her request. Editions Les Trois Mousquetaires was translated into three English versions by 1846. One of these, by William Barrow ( 1817 -- 1877 ), is still in print and fairly faithful to the original, available in the Oxford World 's Classics 1999 edition. To conform to 19th - century English standards, all of the explicit and many of the implicit references to sexuality were removed, adversely affecting the readability of several scenes, such as the scenes between d'Artagnan and Milady. The most recent English translation is by Richard Pevear ( 2006 ), who, though applauding Barrow 's work, states that most of the modern translations available today are `` textbook examples of bad translation practices '' which `` give their readers an extremely distorted notion of Dumas ' writing ''. Adaptations Film Main article : The Three Musketeers in film Television The novel has been adapted also for television in live - action and animation. Live - action BBC has adapted the novel in three separate occasions. The Three Musketeers, a 1954 BBC adaptation in six 30 - minute episodes, starring Laurence Payne, Roger Delgado, Paul Whitsun - Jones and Paul Hansard The Three Musketeers, a 1966 BBC adaptation in ten 25 - minute episodes, directed by Peter Hammond and starring Jeremy Brett, Jeremy Young, and Brian Blessed The Musketeers, a 2014 series by Adrian Hodges, is the newest BBC adaptation starring Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles and Luke Pasqualino as the titular musketeers. The Young Blades is an American / Canadian television series that aired on PAX on 2005. It 's a sequel to the novels, centered on the son of d'Artagnan, played by Tobias Mehler. Animation Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds is a 1981 Spanish -- Japanese anime adaptation, where the characters are anthropomorphic dogs. A sequel, The Return of Dogtanian, was released in 1990 by BRB Internacional, Thames Television and Wang Film Productions. Set 10 years after of the original, it 's loosely based on the novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne. In 1989, Gakken produced a new anime adaptation called The Three Musketeers Anime, this time with human characters, which features several departures from the original. The Three Musketeers was a series of animated shorts produced by Hanna - Barbera 's as part of The Banana Splits Comedy - Adventure Hour and The Banana Splits & Friends show. Albert the Fifth Musketeer is a 1994 French animated series featuring a new musketeer, the titular Albert. A Barbie adaption of the tale by the name of Barbie and the Three Musketeers was made in 2009. Stage The first stage production was in Dumas ' own lifetime as the opera Les Trois Mousquetaires with a libretto by Dumas himself and music by Albert Visetti. The Three Musketeers is a musical with a book by William Anthony McGuire, lyrics by Clifford Grey and P.G. Wodehouse, and music by Rudolf Friml. The original 1928 production ran on Broadway for 318 performances. A 1984 revival ran for 15 previews and 9 performances. In 2003, a Dutch musical 3 Musketiers with a book by André Breedland and music & lyrics by Rob & Ferdi Bolland premiered, which went on to open in Germany ( both the Dutch and German production starring Pia Douwes as Milady De Winter ) and Hungary. Playwright Peter Raby, composer George Stiles and lyricist Paul Leigh have written another adaptation titled `` The 3 Musketeers, One Musical For All '', originally produced by the now defunct American Musical Theatre of San Jose. Video games and board games 1995 saw the release by publisher U.S. Gold of Touché : The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer by video game developers Clipper Software, a classic point - and - click adventure game. In 2005, Swedish developer Legendo Entertainment published the side - scrolling platform game The Three Musketeers for Windows XP and Windows Vista. In July 2009, a version of the game was released for WiiWare in North America and Europe under the title The Three Musketeers : One for All !. In 2009, Canadian developer Dingo Games self - published The Three Musketeers : The Game for Windows and Mac OS X. It is the first game to be truly based on the novel ( in that it closely follows the novel 's story ). 2009 also saw the publication of the asymmetric team board game The Three Musketeers `` The Queen 's Pendants '' ( Настольная игра `` Три мушкетера '' ) from French designer Pascal Bernard by the Russian publisher Zvezda. In 2010 a co-operative game called `` Mousquetaires du Roy '' was released by Ystari and Rio Grande. The alternative spelling of `` Roy '' was taken from the old French and is rumoured to be preferred over the regular spelling because the publisher 's desire to have a letter `` Y '' in the name of the games they publish. Designed by François Combe and Gilles Lehmann for 1 - 5 players, the medium heavy game depicts the quest to retrieve the Queen 's diamonds, while at the same time fending off disasters back in Paris. A sixth player expansion, called `` Treville '' was also made available in 2010. In 2010, Anuman Interactive launched The Three Musketeers, a hidden object game on PC and MAC. Players follow d'Artagnan in his quest to become a king 's musketeer. Web series In 2016, KindaTV launched a web series based on the story of The Three Musketeers, called `` All For One ''. It follows a group of college students, mainly Dorothy Castlemore, and is centred around a sorority - Mu Sigma Theta ( MST ). The majority of characters have been gender - swapped from the original story and most character names are based of the original characters. It covers several themes including the LGBT community, mental health, long distance relationships and college life. Other Three Musketeers, Issue No. 1, Classic Comics, published 1941 Publisher Albert Lewis Kanter ( 1897 -- 1973 ), created Classic Comics for Elliot Publishing Company in 1941 with its debut issues being The Three Musketeers. The Three Mouseketeers was the title of two separate series produced by DC Comics ; the first series was a loose parody of The Three Musketeers. In 1939, American author Tiffany Thayer published a book titled Three Musketeers ( Thayer, 1939 ). This is a re-telling of the story in Thayer 's words, true to the original plot but told in a different order and with different points of view and emphasis from the original. The Khaavren Romances by Steven Brust are fantasy ( or science - fiction ) novels heavily influenced by The Three Musketeers and its sequels ; the characters and social background are closer to Dumas 's than the plots. Sarah Hoyt wrote a series of Historical Murder mysteries with the Musketeers as the protagonists. ( Hoyt wrote the novels under the name Sarah D'Almeida. ) Tansy Rayner Roberts wrote Musketeer Space, a space opera retelling of the original book in which almost all characters have a different gender, as a weekly serialized novel from 2014 - 2016. References Jump up ^ `` Les Trois Mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas -- Free Ebook : Author 's Preface ''. Gutenberg.org. 4 November 2004. Retrieved 2014 - 02 - 26. Jump up ^ Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers, Author 's Preface. Jump up ^ Editions de La Table Ronde, Paris, 1993 ISBN 2 - 7103 - 0559 - 3 Jump up ^ Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers, Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, `` A Note on the Translation '', page xxi Jump up ^ Strecker, Erin ( 1 August 2012 ). `` One for all : BBC announces new show ' The Musketeers ' ''. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 1 August 2012. Jump up ^ Touché : The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer, Moby Games Jump up ^ `` The Three Musketeers : One for All ! ( WiiWare ) ''. Nintendo Life. 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( On the hard cover, the title is printed as Tiffany Thayer 's Three Musketeers. ) Discussion of the work, bibliography and links Bibliography and references for The Three Musketeers Novels portal hide Alexandre Dumas, père Novels The Count of Monte Cristo The Three Musketeers The Corsican Brothers The Black Tulip Captain Pamphile Le Chevalier de Maison - Rouge La Dame de Monsoreau Georges The Knight of Sainte - Hermine The Queen 's Necklace La Reine Margot The New Troy Twenty Years After The Two Dianas The Vicomte de Bragelonne The Wolf Leader La Sanfelice The Women 's War Characters Edmond Dantès Aramis Athos Anne of Austria d'Artagnan Abbé Faria Milady de Winter Porthos Cardinal Richelieu Comte de Rochefort M. de Tréville Films The Brigand ( 1952 ) The Corsican Brothers ( 1941 ) The Count of Monte Cristo ( 1934 ) The Count of Monte Cristo ( 1975 ) The Count of Monte Cristo ( 1998 ) The Count of Monte Cristo ( 2002 ) D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers The Fifth Musketeer The Four Musketeers ( 1936 ) The Four Musketeers ( 1974 ) The Iron Mask The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1939 ) The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1977 ) The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1998 ) The Man in the Iron Mask Mickey, Donald, Goofy : The Three Musketeers The Musketeer La Reine Margot ( 1954 ) La Reine Margot ( 1994 ) soundtrack The Return of the Musketeers Les Trois Mousquetaires The Three Musketeers ( 1921 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1933 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1948 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1969 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1973 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1992 animated ) The Three Musketeers ( 1993 ) The Three Musketeers ( 2011 ) TV programmes Gankutsuou Albert the Fifth Musketeer The Count of Monte Cristo Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds Young Blades The Three Musketeers The Musketeers Related Alexandre Dumas, fils ( son ) Thomas - Alexandre Dumas ( father ) Marie - Cessette Dumas ( grandmother ) Auguste Maquet ( collaborator ) Théâtre Historique Château de Monte - Cristo L'Autre Dumas ( 2010 film ) Orson Welles and People ( lost documentary ) hide The d'Artagnan Romances by Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers Twenty Years After The Vicomte of Bragelonne : Ten Years Later Characters Athos Aramis Porthos d'Artagnan Cardinal Richelieu Milady de Winter Comte de Rochefort George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Anne of Austria Louis XIII Louis XIV Tréville Films The Three Musketeers The Three Musketeers ( 1916 ) Les Trois Mousquetaires ( 1921 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1921 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1932 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1933 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1935 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1939 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1942 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1946 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1948 ) Blades of the Musketeers ( 1953 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1953 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1959 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1961 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1969 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1973 ) The Four Musketeers ( 1974 ) d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers ( 1978 ) The Three Musketeers ( 1993 ) The Musketeer ( 2001 ) The Three Musketeers ( 2011 ) 3 Musketeers ( 2011 ) The Three Musketeers ( 2013 ) Twenty Years After The Return of the Musketeers ( 1989 ) Musketeers Twenty Years After ( 1992 ) The Vicomte of Bragelonne The Iron Mask ( 1929 ) The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1939 ) Uthama Puthiran ( 1940 ) Lady in the Iron Mask ( 1952 ) Uthama Puthiran ( 1958 ) Le Masque de fer ( 1962 ) The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1977 ) The Fifth Musketeer ( 1979 ) The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After ( 1993 ) The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1998 ) Other sequels At Sword 's Point ( 1952 ) The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan ( 1962 ) Revenge of the Musketeers ( 1994 ) La Femme Musketeer ( 2004 ) The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin ( 2009 ) Animated Tom and Jerry The Two Mouseketeers Touché, Pussy Cat ! 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Question: what year was the three musketeers set in
Answer: 1625–1628