However, Dumas frequently portrays various injustices, abuses and absurdities of the Ancien Régime, giving the novel an additional political significance at the time of its publication, a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce.

The Three Musketeers is primarily a historical and adventure novel. Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he is befriended by three of the most formidable musketeers of the age – Athos, Porthos and Aramis, 'the three musketeers' or 'the three inseparables' – and becomes involved in affairs of state and at court. Set between 16, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers of the Guard. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice. As with some of his other works, he wrote it in collaboration with ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires, ) is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. Les Trois Mousquetaires, by Alexandre Dumas, in French. Twenty Years After, The Vicomte of Bragelonne

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