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• Three Musketeers, The
  Three Musketeers, The

  noun

  a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.
• The Three Musketeers
  The Three Musketeers

  (1844) A novel by the French author Alexandre Dumas, set in seventeenth-century France. The Three Musketeers are comrades of the central character, D'Artagnan, a man younger than they, who becomes a musketeer after performing many daring deeds. The motto of the Three Musketeers is “All for one and one for all.”

Three Musketeers, The

American  

noun

1. French Les Trois Mousquetaires.  a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.

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The Three Musketeers Cultural  

1. (1844) A novel by the French author Alexandre Dumas, set in seventeenth-century France. The Three Musketeers are comrades of the central character, D'Artagnan, a man younger than they, who becomes a musketeer after performing many daring deeds. The motto of the Three Musketeers is “All for one and one for all.”

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The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers remain positive about some elements of the post-crisis programme.

From The Guardian ● May 29, 2019

That this nine-year run as The Three Musketeers was ticking down like a time bomb, and after the explosion the landscape was going to look dramatically different.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2016

Other film roles included Porthos in Richard Lester's "The Three Musketeers" and the main character's father in Roman Polanski's "The Pianist."

From US News ● Feb. 1, 2016

Following his success in the mini-series Casanova, Finlay became an established star with his role in Richard Lester's big screen adaptation of The Three Musketeers.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2016

She has read Around the World in Eighty Days until the Braille is soft and fraying; for this year’s birthday, her father has bought her an even fatter book: Dumas’s The Three Musketeers.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr