
Les Trois Mousquetaires
The clearest entry point to Dumas's most influential adventure cycle and historical-romance style.

Author guide
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French author whose vast collaborative and individual bibliography includes romantic drama, historical and adventure novels, travel writing, memoirs, history, biography, essays, journalism, children's literature, and poetry. His major novels include The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, the Valois romances, and the Mémoires d'un médecin cycle.
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The clearest entry point to Dumas's most influential adventure cycle and historical-romance style.

A self-contained masterpiece and one of Dumas's best introductions outside the series novels.

The opening novel of the Mémoires d'un médecin cycle, linking Dumas's historical fiction to the French Revolution.
Read in order
novel series · complete
The musketeer cycle following d'Artagnan and his companions from the reign of Louis XIII through the later seventeenth century.
Book 1 · historical novel · 1844
Adaptation et présentation médiocres. [SDM].
Book 2 · historical novel · 1845
Book 3 · historical novel · 1848
novel series · complete
A four-novel historical cycle set chiefly during the final years of the Ancien Régime and the French Revolution.
Book 1 · historical novel · 1846
Sur la rive gauche du Rhin, a quelques lieues de la ville imperiale de Worms, vers l'endroit ou prend sa source la petite riviere de Selz, commencent les premiers chainons de plusieurs montagnes dont les croupes herissees paraissent…
Book 2 · historical novel · 1849
Book 3 · historical novel · 1851
Ranskan vallankumous on täydessä vauhdissa ja Bastilijin linnoitus on vallattu. Versaillesissa kuningatar Marie Antoinette on hämmentynyt kapinallisten vihasta ja omista sydänsuruistaan. Kaiken lisäksi hänen inhoamansa tohtori Gilbert…
Book 4 · historical novel · 1852
novel series · complete
Dumas's historical trilogy of the French Wars of Religion and the reigns of Charles IX and Henri III.
Book 1 · historical novel · 1845
Le 18 août 1572, alors que les guerres de Religion déchirent la France, Marguerite de Valois, la sœur du très catholique Charles IX, épouse Henri de Navarre, chef protestant et futur roi Henri IV. Bien que cette union ait été arrangée…
Book 2 · historical novel · 1846
Book 3 · historical novel · 1847
Book 1 · historical novel · 1845
Book 2 · historical novel · 1845
Book 3 · historical novel · 1845
Book 4 · historical novel · 1845
novel series · complete
A historical cycle spanning the revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, completed in its final surviving novel only in serial form during Dumas's lifetime.
Book 1 · historical novel · 1857
Book 2 · historical novel · 1867
Book 3 · unfinished historical novel · 2005
novel series · complete
A pair of historical romances concerning the age of Charlemagne.
Book 1 · historical novel · 1851
Book 2 · historical novel · 1851
novel series · complete
Dumas's final two-part historical novel, published posthumously in two volumes.
Book 1 · historical novel · 1872
Book 2 · historical novel · 1872
biographical series · complete
Biographical portraits of major figures in French and European history.
history series · complete
Dumas's connected narrative histories of France from the reign of Louis XIV through the Revolution.
Book 1 · history · 1844
Book 2 · history · 1849
Book 3 · history · 1849
Book 4 · history · 1850
Book 5 · history · 1851
travel series · complete
Dumas's connected series of travel narratives and travel impressions, covering France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, North Africa, the Caucasus, and Russia.
Book 2 · travelogue collection · 1834
Book 1 · travelogue · 1833
Book 3 · travelogue · 1839
Book 4 · travelogue · 1841
Book 5 · travelogue · 1841
Book 6 · travelogue · 1841
Book 7 · travelogue · 1842
Book 8 · travelogue · 1842
Book 9 · travelogue · 1843
Book 10 · travelogue · 1843
Book 11 · travelogue · 1847
Book 12 · travelogue · 1848
Book 13 · travelogue · 1859
Book 14 · travelogue · 1860
Book 15 · travelogue · 1861
Outside the series
historical novel · 1835
novel · 1839
historical novel · 1839
novel · 1839
novel · 1840
novella · 1840
novel · 1840
historical novel · 1842
Le 22 mars de l'an de grace 1718, jour de la mi-careme, un jeune seigneur de haute mine, age de vingt-six a vingt-huit ans, monte sur un beau cheval d'Espagne, se tenait, vers les huit heures du matin, a l'extremite du pont Neuf qui…
nonfiction collection · 1843
historical novel · 1844
novel · 1844
novel · 1844
Qui est Gabriel Lambert ? Dans ce court roman, écrit à la même époque que Les Trois Mousquetaires, six narrateurs se relaient pour raconter la vie de ce paysan monté à Paris, devenu homme du monde, puis faux-monnayeur, qui finira au bagne…
historical adventure novel · 1845
The original revenge story, The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure story set in France and Italy. The story commences just before the Hundred Days of Napoleon and continues on to the reign of King Louis-Philippe. Edmond Dantes, a young…
historical novel · 1845
novel · 1845
historical novel · 1845
historical novel · 1846
novel · 1849
novella · 1850
Le 4 decembre 1846, mon batiment etant a l'ancre depuis la veille dans la baie de Tunis, je me reveillai vers cinq heures du matin avec une de ces impressions de profonde melancolie qui font, pour tout un jour, l'oeil humide et la…
historical novel · 1850
Le 20 aout 1672, la ville de La Haye, si vivante, si blanche, si coquette que l'on dirait que tous les jours sont des dimanches, la ville de La Haye, avec son parc ombreux, avec ses grands arbres inclines sur ses maisons gothiques, avec…
novel · 1852
historical novel · 1852
unfinished historical novel · 1853
Que le lecteur se transporte avec nous a trois lieues au dela de Rome, a l'extremite de la via Appia, au bas de la descente d'Albano, a l'endroit meme ou la voie antique, vieille de deux mille ans, s'embranche avec une route moderne agee…
novel · 1853
historical novel · 1853
historical novel · 1854
novel · 1854
novel · 1854
novel · 1854
historical novel · 1855
novel · 1856
fantastic novel · 1857
novel · 1858
novel · 1858
novel · 1862
novel · 1858
This book is a thought-provoking journey into the life of Chevalier de la Graverie, a man whose psychological makeup and life trajectory were indelibly shaped by the trauma of his birth and the loss of his parents during the French…
historical novel · 1859
novel · 1859
novel · 1860
novel · 1862
novel · 1860
novel · 1862
novel · 1862
unfinished historical novel · 1866
historical novel · 1864
historical novel · 1865
historical novel · 1868
novel · 1868
nonfiction · 1873
novel · 1871
novel · 1872
novel · 1873
history · 1833
memoir · 1835
biography · 1840
history · 1840
memoir · 1840
history · 1842
history · 1845
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) a 38 ans lorsque, acculé à la faillite, il s'expatrie à Florence où il accepte la commande de la Galerie des Offices, qui lui propose d'écrire un texte d'hommage à la famille des Médicis, apothicaires enrichis,…
biography · 1845
biography · 1849
travelogue · 1851
history · 1852
history · 1852
memoir · 1852
biographical memoir · 1854
biography · 1855
art criticism · 1862
short-story collection · 1826
fantastic short-story collection · 1849
story collection · 1857
essay · 1843
political pamphlet · 1850
essay and memoir collection · 1860
pamphlet · 1858
memoir and essay collection · 1867
essay and memoir collection · 1861
history and essay collection · 1867
dramatic criticism and essays · 1868
adapted children's story · 1845
children's story · 1845
children's story collection · 1859
children's story collection · 1860
poetry · 1825
poetry · 1826
poetry collection · 1865
play · 1825
play · 1826
play · 1829
Henri III et sa cour Drame en cinq actes, en prose Theatre-Francais. - 11 fevrier 1829. A mon honorable ami le baron de Taylor Membre de la Legion d'honneur. Mon cher Taylor, C'est a vous que je dedie mon drame historique de Henri III et…
play · 1830
play · 1831
play · 1831
play · 1832
play · 1832
play · 1832
play · 1832
play · 1834
play · 1834
play · 1836
play · 1836
play · 1837
play · 1839
play · 1839
play · 1841
play · 1841
play · 1841
play · 1841
play · 1842
play · 1842
play · 1843
play · 1843
play · 1851
play · 1860
opera-comique · 1837
historical crime collection · 1839
sea-adventure collection · 1853
political reportage · 1859
opera-comique · 1860
political reportage · 1861
Alexandre Dumas was born on July 24, 1802, in Villers-Cotterêts, France, and died on December 5, 1870, near Dieppe.
He was the son of General Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, who was born in Saint-Domingue to a Norman father and an enslaved African woman. Dumas is often called Dumas père to distinguish him from his son, Alexandre Dumas fils.
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After moving to Paris, Dumas worked as a secretary to the Duke of Orléans and began writing for the stage. His 1829 historical drama Henri III et sa cour brought him his first major success and established him as a leading Romantic dramatist.
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Dumas drew on history, Romantic drama, and the works of writers such as Shakespeare, Walter Scott, Schiller, and Byron. His father’s military life and his own fascination with travel and the Orient also informed his historical imagination.
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Dumas helped make historical adventure fiction one of the most enduring forms of popular literature, with readers around the world continuing to encounter his storytelling. France formally honored his legacy by transferring his remains to the Panthéon in 2002.
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