| Les
Trois Mousquetaires |
1844.
By Alexandre Dumas. This is where the legend began, based on
"The Memoirs of Monsieur D'Artagnan", French history, and
the author's own imagination. |
| Les
Quantre Mousquetaires |
1844.
By Alexandre Dumas. The second volume of the original story,
in modern times generally included with the first as a single novel. |
| Vingt
Ans Après |
1845.
By Alexandre Dumas. The first sequel, set twenty years after
the end of the previous novel. Written only one year after the original,
this gives us the musketeers as men in early middle age. |
| Le
Vicomte de Bragelonne [or, Ten Years Later] |
By
Alexandre Dumas. Originally printed as a single five-volume
work, it is often now published as four books: Ten Years Later,
Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valiere,
The Man in the Iron Mask. |
| Les
Vèritable Mémoires de D'Artagnan le Mousquetaire |
1874.
By Albert Maurin. This book, published right after the death
of Alexandre Dumas, is one of the first attempts to exploit the success
of the The Three Musketeers under
the pretext of restoring the historical truth of the characters made
famous for the writer. It is, however, written like a novel and appears
to be based on Mémoires
de M. D'Artagnan by Courtilz de Sandras.
|
| Les
Trois Petit Mouquetaires |
1882. By Èmile
Desbeaux. Published with the approval of Alexandre Dumas fils,
this novel sets the story told by Dumas within the framework of
a Parisian school in 1873. On his way to a boarding school in Paris,
eleven-year-old Gascon Marius de Champagnac has stolen from him
the letter and money his parents sent with him. His new schoolmates
make a mockery of him for his provincial clothes, and he quarrels
successively with three boys who will become his best friends.
|
| Le
Fils de Porthos, Le Mort d'Aramis |
1883.
By "Alexandre Dumas, adapted by" Paul Mahalin.
This sequel to Le Vicomte de Bragelonne,
written more than a decade after the supposed author's death, is purported
to be adapted from a forgotten play by Dumas. However, the novel is
probably entirely the work of the "adapter". Joel, the son
of a brief affair between Porthos and a woman of Belle-Isle during
Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, goes in
search of his kidnaped love and of his father's true identity. He
encounters Aramis, now old and bitter, but the old musketeer--not
realizing Joel's identity--is his enemy. |
| Le
Filleul d'Aramis |
1896. By Paul Mahalin.
The author's second "continuation" of the musketeers'
adventures (see Le Fils de Porthos).
Aramis, by then Duke of Alaméda and General of the Jesuits,
supports Louis XIV against the plots of united European powers in
exchange for the support of Louis XIV in Aramis's ambition to become
pope. Battles, poisonings, intrigues, and the adventures of Aramis's
young godson abound. The story appears to me to contradict the story
told by the same author in Le Fils
de Porthos.
|
| D'Artagnan,
The King-Maker: An Historical Novel |
1901.
By Henry Llewellyn Williams. |
| D'Artagnan's
Exploit |
1904.
By Henry Llewellyn Williams. |
| Les
Trois Pages de Monsieur D'Artagnan |
1905. By Emile Watin.
The story, written for young readers and told in retrospect, of
three brothers, Gaston, Pierre and François d' Estirac, who
get their start in life in the service of D' Artagnan.
|
| "Le
Fils des Trois Mouquetaires" in Pour Lire Sous la Douche |
1912.
By Cami. The satiric story of a young man whose mother slept
with three of the musketeers. He boasts the courage of D'Artagnan,
the force of Porthos and the modesty of Athos. |
| D'Artagnan |
By Adrien Guignery.
Another of the works claiming to set straight the history abused
by Dumas, this Romantic novel combines plagiarisms from Dumas with
some true anecdotes and history, much of it plagiarized from the
19th Century historian Anquetil.
|
| The
Three Musketeers |
By
Rudyard Kipling. |
| Le
Fils de Trois Mouquetaires |
1919. By Cami.
A novel based on the author's earlier satiric novella
of the same title.
|
| Les
Amours de d'Artagnan |
1924. By Paul Segonzac.
Set just after the death of Mazarin, this novel features D'Artagnan
in his role of protector as he involves himself in court conspiracies
and the trials of young lovers.
|
| Le
Fils de d'Artagnan |
1924.
By Paul Féval fils. A continuation of the saga beginning
after the death of D'Artagnan in Le Vicomte de
Bragelonne and presenting George, the son of D'Artagnan
and an Italian woman he met while on a diplomatic mission to Rome.
Interestingly, the author has ignored the death of Athos, who adopts
young George. |
| Le
Vieillesse d'Athos |
1925.
By Paul Féval fils. Continuation of the story begun
in Le Fils de D'Artagnan. George
finds his mother, Térésina, from whom he has been separated
since birth. In addition to Athos, Aramis (as an ambassador of Spain),
Planchet, Bazin, Grimaud and the son of Mousqueton all appear. |
| D'Artagnan
Contre Cyrano de Bergerac |
1925. By Paul Féval
fils and M. Lassez. A novel in four volumes: The
Knight Mystery, Martyrdom of the Queen, The
Secrecy of the Bastille, and The Heritage of Buckingham.
A sequel to The Three Musketeers
of Dumas, this is the story of a conflict between Richelieu and
Mazarin and Anne of Austria and a mysterious knight (and his friend,
Cyrano de Bergerac). D'Artagnan must find a way to resolve his own
conflict, between his loyalty to his queen and his duty as a soldier.
Aramis appears as a chaplain.
|
| D'Artagnan
et Cyrano Réconciliés |
1928. By Paul Féval
fils. A novel in three volumes: Secrecy of State,
The Escape from the Iron Mask, and Weddings
of Cyrano. Completely reconciled after their adventures
in D'Artagnan Contre Cyrano de Bergerac, the two heroes
have become inseparable friends. While Cyrano sighs for the beautiful
eyes of Roxane, D'Artagnan falls in love with Roxanne's sister,
Francoise Robin de Vauzenac! Meantime, Mazarin is plotting against
Anne of Austria through her secret son, George de Villiers. And
then, just as our heroes are to marry the women they love, Barbary
pirates make off with D'Artagnan and the ladies so that Cyrano must
rescue them from Algeria. Also appearing are Aramis, Bazin, and
the man in the iron mask.
|
| The
King's Passport |
1928.
By H. Bedford-Jones. Another novel purporting to tell the truth
about D'Artagnan, but which centers on a meeting between D'Artagnan
and Cyrano de Bergerac. |
| D'Artagnan |
1928. By H. Bedford-Jones.
A sequel to The Three Musketeers,
purporting to be an augmentation of a fragmentary manuscript by
Alexandre Dumas. It is unrelated to the same author's The
King's Passport. The story opens in 1630 as another
crisis threatens Anne of Austria. D'Artagnan, assisted by Athos
and Porthos though they have left the service, comes to the rescue
of the queen before Richelieu can build a ruinous scandal around
the existence of a child, whom Richelieu and others believe to be
Anne's. NOTE: The claim that the story is based on a fragment of
Dumas's writing is misleading: the fragment in question was a single
page, probably the beginning of a journalistic article, and dealing
with the thesis written by Aramis when he became a priest. The page
is included in the text as Aramis reads it to his friends, but is
otherwise unrelated to the plot.
|
| L'Enfant
des Mousquetaires |
1929. By Jean Demais.
The title character is the hidden son of Mazarin and Anne of Austria.
Found by Artagnan, the baby, named Christmas, was adopted by the
company of the musketeers (without anyone's knowing his origins).
As an adolescent, Christmas meets the young Louis XIV and a fraternal
and "instinctive" bond is immediately formed. Mazarin,
finding Christmas, plots to assassinate Louis XIV and replace him
with his son.
|
| Le
Beau D'Artagnan et Son Époque |
1930. By
Ch. Quinel and A. de Montgon. A rather disjointed novel
in which D'Artagnan fights duels, rescues ladies in distress, cooks
for an ambassador, and romances two women. |
| Le
Jeunesse de D'Artagnan |
1930.
By Lucien Pemjean. While this novel purports to tell the true
early adventures of D'Artagnan and the three musketeers, the author
appears to have gotten his information from Courtilz
and his own imagination. |
| Le
Capitaine D'Artagnan |
1931. By Lucien Pemjean.
Like his Le Jeunesse de D'Artagnan,
the author claims this story to be a truthful account of the real
D'Artagnan's adventures. In it, D'Artagnan seeks revenge against
the Duchesse de Montpensier for her murder of his fiancee at the
end of the first book and, in a scene straight out of the execution
of Milady in Le Trois Mousquetaires, he puts an end to her.
Interestingly, for a book claiming to be nonfiction, the faithful
lover's reward is to meet many years later the reincarnation of
his fiancee, so that the two of them can live happily ever after.
|
| D'Artagnan's
Letter |
1931.
By M. and H. Bedford-Jones. The adventures of young 20th Century
Americans who inherit a small island off Brittany. The castle of their
ancestors is supposed to hide the family treasure, buried before the
French Revolution. The famous musketeer does not actually appear in
the story; his connection is that the directions to finding the treasure
were written on the the back of a certificate of demobilization granted
to the hero's ancestor and signed by D'Artagnan. |
| Les
Chevaliers du Gai |
1935. By Cami.
In 1934, a countess asks her medium to call forth and materialize
the famous musketeers. The effort causes the medium to have a heart
attack before the fourth materializes, so that D'Artagnan, Athos
and Porthos are stuck in the 20th Century, forced to wait until
the medium recovers so that she can return them whence they came.
In the meantime, the musketeers meet the modern world and, in their
refusal to understand how it has changed, create havoc by behaving
in 20th Century Paris as if it were still their own time. Only thanks
to the intervention of Aramis, who has remained a spirit, are they
able to disincarnate and return to the spirit world.
|
| The
Three Musketeers |
1935.
By John Adams. Novelization of the 1935 movie The
Three Musketeers, with many stills from the movie. |
| Le
Voyage Inoui de de m. Rikiki |
1938. By Cami.
A man and his family travel in a time travel machine invented by
his neighbor. The machine randomly takes them along in the past,
where they encounter world and French history. In the chapters "The
Three Musketeers and a Half" and "The Sun King",
Rikiki first comes to the aid of D'Artagnan in a rather unexpected
way and then jumps forward 20 years to take on the role of the man
in the iron mask in order to thwart a plot.
|
| Les
Aventures de D'Artagnan |
1938. By Maurice
Coriem. Another attempt to restore historical truth to the story
of D'Artagnan while preserving the character's Romantic aura. It
is a highly simplified story written for young people in the form
of a novel and based directly on Le
Memoires de D'Artagnan.
|
| La
Protegée de D'Artagnan |
1945. By Gabriel
Fersen. An abundantly illustrated novella in which the four
musketeers find a baby abandoned on the street at Christmas. They
baptize the small girl Noëlle and place her with a nurse. Sixteen
years later, the beautiful girl is a damsel in distress and D'Artagnan
comes to the rescue.
|
| Les
Quatres Mouquetaires: L'Eminence Rouge |
1946. By Xavier de
L'Ange. While officially the four musketeers of the title, who
fight Richelieu and contend with evil spies, are not the musketeers
of Dumas, they are in fact direct copies with changed names--and,
due to typos, sometimes the names aren't changed!
|
| The
Three Musketeers |
1947.
By Tiffany Thayer. A version of the classic story that answers
the question of how Milady became the monster Dumas depicted. |
| The
Story of the Three Musketeers |
1948.
By Frank L. Beals and Bernadine Bailey. The Dumas classic
severely simplified and bowdlerized for children. The number of characters
has been cut drastically, almost all detail has been removed, and
each chapter ends with a word list and questions for the reader to
consider. |
| Le
Triomphe de Richelieu |
1949. By Robert
and Jean Grimey. The adventures of Antoine de Brayberolles
and his friend Raphaël de Champrosay, who enter the service
of Richelieu. Antoine's courage and skill make him the rival of
D'Artagnan. Dolorès von Meiden, an agent of the Duchesse
de Chevreuse charged with attempting to assassinate Richelieu, undertakes
to pit D'Artagnan and Brayberolles against one another.
|
| Le
Capitaine D'Artagnan |
1949.
By H-l Thiriot. Reprint of Le Capitaine
D'Artagnan by Lucien Pemjean, with a change in the name
of the author. |
| "Frederic,
D'Artagnan and Le petite Chinoise" in Les Indes Galandes |
1952. By Roger Nimier.
This Christmas tale tells the history of a little boy, Frederic,
who has fallen in love with Shou, a Chinese neighbor. Frederic is
very unhappy because Shou rejected his advances saying,"France
is smaller than China". But, in a dream, Frederic receives
unexpected help from his hero, D'Artagnan. With the musketeer's
help, Frederic conquers China and annexes it to France, thus winning
the hand of Shou.
|
| Sang
de D'Artagnan |
1952. By Jehan Lebas.
This story is set during the last years of the reign of Louis XIV,
long after the death of D'Artagnan. It relates the adventures of
Philippe de Laboise, a young provincial gentleman--in fact, D'Artagnan's
nephew--who comes to Paris as D'Artagnan did to become a King's
guard and make his fortune.
|
| L'Enfant
des Mousquetaires |
1953. By Maxime la
Tour. A condensed version of the book of the same title by Demais.
|
| Les
Deux Mousquetaires |
1954. by Paul-Yves
Sébillot. This novel, which inspired a play
of the same name, centers on D'Artagnan and a new musketeer who,
as they move between Paris and the war of Savoy, face many dangers
in the service of the cardinal as they take on a plot by Spanish
agents and a very young Cyrano de Bergerac. The text includes many
footnotes on the historical context.
|
| "D'Artagnan
et la Russet-Red Dame" in Contes du Val-de-Saire |
1955. By Maurice-Ch.
Fox. The hero of this novella, though no relation of the famous
D'Artagnan, has his name and personality. The action, however, is
set in 1702, where the musketeers wait for a possible English invasion.
D'Artagnan detects a conspiracy and sets out to thwart it.
|
| Le
Grand Secret de D'Artagnan |
1955. By Arsène
Lefort. This book seeks to fill in the period between Dumas's
first and second novels. D'Artagnan finds documents indicating that
Louis XIII was not, and thus Louis XIV is not, the rightful king
of France. The documents become the center of conflict with de Condé,
who would inherit the crown, for possession of the documents. In
the absence of his old comrades, D'Artagnan's support is his elder
sister, Germaine, prioress of a convent.
|
| Three
Musketeers and a Lady |
By
Tiffany Thayer. Abridgement of the author's The
Three Musketeers for the paperback version. |
| D'Artagnan,
Capitaine-Lieutenant des Mousquetaires du Roy |
1961. By Michel Duino.
Another book aiming to restore historical truth to the story of
D'Artagnan, and another one which instead combines Courtilz
de Sandras and Alexandre Dumas.
|
| D'Artagnan
Amoreux |
1962. By Roger Nimier.
Taking place after The Three Musketeers
and before Twenty Years After, this
story was intended to be the first of a series, but the author died
before he could write more. D'Artagnan is charged by Richelieu to
bring back to Paris from Rome a secret peace treaty signed by all
the sovereigns of Europe. Along the way, he conceives an unrequited
love that inspires him to seek death in battle. Only the intervention
of the three other musketeers saves him.
|
| Furioso |
1971. By Voldemar
Lestienne. The story of the musketeers is transplanted to World
War II in occupied France. The names are changed, but the characters
are clearly based on those of Dumas, as are a number of the adventures.
|
| Fracasso |
1973. By Voldemar
Lestienne. Sequel to Furioso,
continuing the adventures of the four "musketeers" of
the Free French Army during the Second World War.
|
| The
Four Musketeers |
1975.
By Michael Hardwick. Novelization of the 1974
Richard Lester movie. Somewhat loosely resembles the Dumas version. |
| Le
Cousin de Porthos |
1981. By Jean-Luc
Déjean. The story begins in 1629 when Richelieu orders
D'Artagnan on a top secret mission to carry a message to the Duc
de Rohan, head of the Protestants of the Cevennes. Since his three
friends have already left the musketeers, D'Artagnan travels with
old enemies who have become friends: de Jussac, Cahusac, Biscarat,
de Fesq. The four men are aided in their mission by Planchet and
Porthos's cousin. Aramis and Mazarin also appear.
|
|
Milady, Mon Amour:
Une femme dans la tourmente 1627-1628
|
1986. By Yak Rivais.
This clever novel overturns the universe that Dumas gave us, revealing
that the characters of the story's principals were not at all what
we thought. Poor Milady was an innocent and sensitive victim, Athos
an insensitive brute, D'Artagnan a rapist, de Winter an evil usurper,
and de Wardes a cultivated and loving man.
|
| Le
Rendezvous des Héros |
1987. By Paco Ignacio
Taibo II. A short political novel set in Mexico City in 1968
and originally published in Spanish (I don't know the proper Spanish
title, but I'm looking for it). Nestor Roca, in a hospital bed,
schemes to avenge the crushing of his political movement by inviting
all its favorite heroes to the rescue: the Musketeers, Sherlock
Holmes, the Light Brigade, Tigers of Malaysia, and Sheriff Wyatt
Earp, among others. All answer and come to start a Revolution in
Mexico City.
|
| A
Candle for D'Artagnan |
1989. By Chelsea
Quinn Yarbro. D'Artagnan had a romance with an ancient Roman
vampire and, had his body not been torn in two at the battle of
Maastricht in 1673, he would upon his death have risen as a vampire.
Given this fantastical premise, the novel sticks fairly closely
to the history rather than leaning on Dumas.
|
| D'Artagnan |
1989.
By Jean-Loup Dabadie. I would invite anyone knowing anything
about this work to enlighten me, too. |
| Great
Illustrated Classics: The Three Musketeers |
1990.
By Alexandre Dumas as adapted by Malvina G. Vogel. The
Dumas classic abridged for young readers. |
| The
Phoenix Guards |
1991.
by Stephen Brust. A heroic sci-fi/fantasy homage to the musketeers,
parallel to Les Trois Mousquetaires.
|
| Le
Dernier Amour d'Aramis |
1993. Subtitled: ou
les Vrai Memoires du Chevalier René d'Herblay, qui Devint
Évêque de Vannes, Duc d'Alamedia, Grand d'Espagne,
Ambassadeur de Sa Majesté Très Catholique, Préposé
Général des Jésuites, et Fut Mousquetairre
du Roi du France dans la Compagnie de M. de Tréville sous
le Nom d'Aramis. By Jean-Pierre Dufreigne. Winner
of Le Prix Interallié literary prize in 1993, this is the
memoir of Aramis, both a prequel and a sequel to the Dumas books,
a subtle exploration of the least-loved musketeer.
|
| Club
Dumas |
1993. By Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
A thriller whose mysteries the hero can solve only by reference
to the intrigues of Richelieu in Les Trois Mousquetaires
and to the lawsuit in Venice of a 17th Century printer of a satanic
book. Made into a movie, The
Mask of Dumas.
|
| Five
Hundred Years After |
1994.
By Stephen Brust. A heroic sci-fi/fantasy homage to the musketeers,
parallel to Twenty Years After and
sequel to The Phoenix Guards. |
| Viscount
of Adrilankha |
By
Stephen Brust. A heroic sci-fi/fantasy homage to the musketeers,
parallel to Le Vicomte de Bragelonne,
sequel to Five Hundred Years After. |
| Muttketeer! |
1997.
By Bill Crider and Rick Duffield. Wishbone, the well-read
Jack Russell Terrier who promotes reading for children on the PBS
series, Wishbone, imagines himself as D'Artagnan in
The Three Musketeers. |
| The
Mutt in the Iron Muzzle |
1997.
By Michael Jan Friedman. Wishbone, the well-read Jack Russell
Terrier who promotes reading for children on the PBS series, Wishbone,
imagines himself as both Louis XIV and his imprisoned twin, Phillippe,
from The Man in the Iron Mask portion of Le
Vicomte de Bragelonne. |
| Les
Trois Hussards |
1999. By François
Cérésa. Adventures of Alexandre Dumas as he arrives
in Paris in 1823, where he encounters a hussar lieutenant who is
his perfect double. The two switch places and while the hussar,
Antoine Dupuy, goes off to Spain, Dumas meets Dupuy's closest friends,
three hussars who bear a strong resemblance to the musketeers about
whom he will later write.
|
| Not
Exactly the Three Musketeers |
1999.
By Joel Rosenberg. No actual relation to our heroes, but a
science fiction story in the spirit of the historical romances of
Dumas. |
| De
Plume et d'Épée: Roman Louis XIII |
1999. By Hubert Monteilhet.
Picaresque adventures of Arnaud d'Espalunge, a Béarnais gentleman
who becomes a spy for Richelieu. D'Artagnan and the Musketeers are
seen through his eyes.
|
| Les
Nouveau Trois Mousquetaires |
1999. Edited by Paul-Loup
Sulitzer. Anthology resulting from an annual contest in which
the authors write a story using a well-known literary work as a
starting point. The contest of 1999 was devoted to Les Trois
Mousquetaires. This collection contains fifteen prize-winning
stories, including nine written by adults and six by young people.
|
| Please
note: Full information about most of these books, with more complete
summaries, text analysis, book covers, etc., can be found on the website:
www.pastichesdumas.com
(in French). |