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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.


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

From The Guardian ● May 29, 2019

For all his ego, Ibrahimovic does his best to blend in around his teammates — not easy when you're 6-foot-5 and look like D'Artagnan from "The Three Musketeers."

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018

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

Zarra taps the cover of The Three Musketeers.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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