French Musketeer

In 1884, the French novelist Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, followed by Twenty Years After (1845) and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (1847-50). Dumas based his work on a genuine memoir by an officer of the Musketeers, Memoires de M. D`Artagnan, which was published in 1700, and the historical truth is as fascinating as the legends created by Dumas. This title delves behind the fiction to reveal the true history of this most colorful and flamboyant of units.