The Three Musketeers (Translated by Richard Pevear) - Alexandre Dumas [0]
*“The argument stripped of all ornament.”
*“Austere be a cleric’s conversation.”
**“In the loudest voice.”
*“Vanity of vanities!”
*“It will be, it is, it was.”
*“A banquet of banquets.”
*“They were noticed in desert places.”
*Literally, “he who comes after the judge.”
*“Whose part in it was great” (it should be cujus, not cui).
*Alexandre Dumas, romancier (Paris: Les Editions Ouvrières, 1973).
* We know very well that the term “Milady” is used only when followed by the family name. But we find it thus in the manuscript, and do not want to take it upon ourselves to change it. [Dumas’s note]
* In heraldry, a golden lion on a red background, walking to the right and looking straight ahead, with three paws on the ground and the right forepaw raised. The Latin motto means “faithful and strong.”
*“unequal to many.”
*“Admirable indeed!”
**“Swimming more easily.”
†“As amidst the immensity of the heavens.”
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
by
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION
by
RICHARD PEVEAR
VIKING
VIKING
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802–1870.
[Trois mousquetaires. English]
The three musketeers / by Alexandre Dumas; translated with an introduction by
Richard Pevear.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-1-1012-0152-7
1. France—History—Louis XIII, 1610–1643—Fiction. 2. Swordsmen—Fiction.
I. Title: 3 musketeers. II. Pevear, Richard, 1943–III. Title.
PQ2228.A355 2006
843'.7—dc22 2005058468
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Contents
Introduction
A Note on the Translation
The Three Musketeers
Preface
I. The Three Presents of M. d’Artagnan Sr.
II. M. de Tréville’s Antechamber
III. The Audience
IV. Athos’s Shoulder, Porthos’s Baldric, and Aramis’s Handkerchief
V. The King’s Musketeers and the Cardinal’s Guards
VI. His Majesty King Louis the Thirteenth
VII. The Musketeers at Home
VIII. A Court Intrigue
IX. D’Artagnan Shows Himself
X. A Seventeenth-Century Mousetrap
XI. The Plot Thickens
XII. George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
XIII. Monsieur Bonacieux
XIV. The Man from Meung
XV. Men of the