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After The Count of Monte Cristo , summer continues with The Three Musketeers, Twenty years after then , pending Viscount deBragelonne , last trilogy Alexander Dumas spent the 17th century, but larger by itself than the first two combined.

The Three Musketeers is a novel of swashbuckling par excellence. It runs very much, they fight a lot, between two bursts of laughter, a few pats on the back, duels, murders, a terrible vengeance. It has been so often imitated, copied, we find elements so often replicated in one form or another, it is always refreshing to get back "at source", and realize all that the prevailing culture is to this type of monument.

I will not dwell on the story that everyone knows. Basically, D'Artagnan is a young provincial clean heart, brave and intelligent. He went to Paris, became acquainted with Athos, Porthos, Aramis. The buddies help the queen to save his honor against the machinations of Cardinal Richelieu and the terrible Milady. In the background, the rivalry Louis XIII / Richelieu, the seat of La Rochelle, and then also the sling, the English revolt, Cromwell and Charles I's death, the relationship Mazarin / Anne of Austria. For more info, see here , there and i also it, or possibly here but mostly read the book.

What is more important is to look at the sequence of situations, the relationship between the characters. Relatively inconsistent and somewhat annoying, D'Artagnan, the brave provincial federation has the merit of the other three. Isolated in their corner, the 4 men vegetate in solitude and the philistine mediocrity. Awakened to themselves by the boldness and initiative of D'Artagnan, the transcendent and friends perform miracles, as it is beautifully told in early Twenty years after .

Compared to the first that tells a beautiful story and beautiful feelings, the second volume is much more focused on the psychology of the characters, and the test of time. This is very far from my point of view, the most interesting. Darker, more subtle and more robust. It is in Twenty years after that we better understand the psychology of the characters, the reasons for their respective behavior.

Athos
• = lord charismatic, high and ancient nobility
  
• Porthos = the good life, the faithful friend strong as a Turk, attracted by shiny
  
• Aramis = seducer, elegant and witty, intellectual

The heroes are tired, they have aged, they have matured. Revenues (almost all), the musketeers they encountered the ingratitude of the great, cruel to disillusion. Some do not have them the bright future they hoped for, others feel that the world is changing and they no longer quite place. They sometimes feel earned by resentment, bitterness. They are alone. Isolated each other, the events have drawn opposite trajectories for them: they have become adversaries, Athos and Aramis are slingers, D'Artagnan and Porthos are in the service of Mazarin (the first hopes to finally become Captain of the Musketeers, the second aims at As Baron).

Dumas has a knack for examining the effect of time on the psychology of his characters. It has already been noticing in the Count of Monte Cristo . Everyone has become much more depth, depth / The reader too. And while the three musketeers could happen - wrongly - for the sub-children's literature, Twenty years after needed immediately as Reference.

remains obviously many reasons for not reading these fabulous novels. It is still very long (even if it is read in one sitting), and it's not always summer. But we hope to have suggested that it would be a shame.