The Three Musketeers MBTI Personality Type

The Three Musketeers

Les Trois Mousquetaires (1844). One of the most famous pieces of French literature, written by Alexandre Dumas (père), who's also known for writing The Count of Monte Cristo. In the year 1625 under the reign of King Louis XIII, d'Artagnan, the son of a noble but poor family, leaves his home in Gascony and heads to Paris to follow a dream: to become a Musketeer of the Guard, one of the most prestigious military units in the whole Kingdom of France. Armed with only his courage and a letter of introduction from his father, d'Artagnan heads out. Though he loses the letter in an altercation with a mysterious man in a black cape with a scar on his face, d'Artagnan presses on and meets the titular three musketeers: leader and father-figure Athos, the vain and famously gluttonous Porthos, and the casanova and smart guy Aramis. Together, they have a series of swashbuckling adventures. The main antagonists are the Cardinal Richelieu and his agent, Milady de Winter. D'Artagnan's Love Interest is distressed damsel Madame Bonacieux, at least while he is not being seduced by Milady. The book has been adapted many times, in many countries and in virtually every medium. It has two sequels, which are much less well known: Twenty Years After (1845) and The Vicomte of Bragelonne (serialized 1847–1850). The latter is so massive that it's often divided into three, four or five volumes. Some parts of one particular subplot in the second sequel, related to the imprisoned twin brother of Louis XIV (the famous Man in the Iron Mask), have also inspired several films.