D’Artagnan goes to France to become a Musketeer. But on his way he gets into a
fight with a tall ,dark haired nobleman with a scar on his right cheek. He sees the man talking to a
woman named Milady de Winter. D’Artagnan finally finds the captain of the
musketeers Monsieur de Treville. D’Artagnan sees the man that defeated him and runs after
him. But on his way he runs over wounded Athos and he also runs into Porthos. He ran
through the street but could not find the man. Athos gets mad and challenges D’Artagnan
to a duel. But when they were about to fight five Cardinal Guards attack them, and
D’Artagnan is rewarded for his bravery. One day his landlord comes to him with a
favor and he excepts it because he has not paid his bill for three months rent.
Constance Bonacieux was kidnapped. While he is telling his friends the whole story
he hears his landlord yelling because he was being arrested. But they do not save him
for if they get arrested then they will not be able to rescue him. At night he heard someone
crying. He looked through the hole on the floor of his apartment, and saw the guards
tying up a young woman. He brakes the door and scares the guards away. She
thanks him and they fall in love .He then guides her safely to the palace where she is a
maid for the Queen of France. But a man comes beside her and D’Artagnan is
about to fight him but she stops them and tells D’Artagnan that it is only the
Duke of Buckingham and that he has come to meet the Queen. The Queen
tells him to leave because he might be in danger .He asks her to give him something
to remember her by ,so she gives him a ribbon with twelve diamonds on it. She
didn’t know but on of her maids were spying on her, the maid immediately
reported it to Richelieu. Richelieu told the King to schedule a ball in ten days in the
Queens’ honor. He told Milady de Winter to steal two of the diamonds from the
ribbon to show the King that his Queen gave it to another man. Constance asks
D’Artagnan to tell the Duke about the ribbon, and the Queens’ danger. The
Duke gets someone to make a pair that looks just the same so he can get the Queen
out of great danger.
The main focus of the story is on Bertrande de Rols and her place in sixteenth century society, especially as a wife. At the age of nine, Bertrande was married to Martin Guerre who was a young peasant of Basque heritage. For several years, the two have trouble consummating their marriage. In 1548, Martin runs away from his village of Artigat, France to join the Spanish army, leaving his twenty-two year old wife Bertrande and a young son. After eight years of living in quiet desperation, an imposter Arnaud du Tilh nicknamed "Pansette," shows up in the village in 1548, in the guise of Martin Guerre. It is no wonder that Bertrande would finally find fulfillment of her hopes and dreams of a better life with the new Martin. The couple's marital bliss unravels the day Arnaud argues with his uncle, Pierre Guerre, over his desire to sell off some of his ancestral land. Under Basque tradition and custom, a man is never to sell his ancestral land this causes Pierre to be suspicious of the identity of his nephew and he decides to sue Arnaud as an imposter.
She then started shouting, “By the cross of God, you loathsome sot, you’re not going to come in here tonight. I will not tolerate this conduct of yours any longer, It’s time I showed people the sort of man you are and the hours you keep.” She accuses him of drinking and sleeping around, and the people surrounding the yelling couple believe her and the people gave him a
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he invites a prostitute up to his room. He gets cold feet and decides not
Morte d'Arthur, a knight is injured mortally and dies. When the squire of the knight
At the beginning of the film, the audience realizes the bravery and wit of de Bergerac when he defends his own honor in a duel against the Vicomte
“All for one, one for all.” This offhand declaration was the oath asserted by the four musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, Athos, and d’Artagnan, when they committed their lives to gallantry at the expense of M. Bonacieux’s liberality. In accordance with this scene and prior to the Siege of La Rochelle, the protagonist, d’Artagnan, wasn’t one of “the three musketeers;” he was attached to des Essarts’ company instead of M. de Tréville’s musketeers. The term, “four musketeers,” must then be characterized by duplicity. The novel was in a broader sense with respect to d’Artagnan becoming a musketeer.
D' Artagnan's father was a very loyal Musketeer until he was murder by the red guards. The Red guards are the soldiers that protect the Cardinal Richelieu, and Cardinal Richelieu is the right hand man to the king. D' Artagnan's only wanted revenge for his father so he went to Paris to find the men that killed his father. Along the way he meets Armis, Athos, and Pothos, and they help him find the murders. Know that D' Artagnan has no family, the three musketeers bring him under the wing. Soon after finding the murders, D' Artagnan loses his anger of revenge and joins the Musketeers. IMDb summary writes: "series gives a contemporary take on the classic story about a group of highly trained soldiers and bodyguards assigned to protect King and country." The Musketeers, shows us how anger and revenge can turn a man bad and make them do terrible thing, but only friendship can take away
She murmurs to him how much she feels for him but he knows that they
from the groom's family that had carried her from her home. The bride now says
A few weeks later, a secret meeting was held at night. The meeting was about escaping. Everyone planned to escape the next day. There was one flaw with the plan. Someone had to step out of line so a guard will leave his post to take the person to the owner giving the rest of the group a window of opportunity to escape.
The Duchess is a young girl at the age of 12 and is the current ruler of Brittany. She is an innocent little girl but has to hold herself and her demeanor at high regard. Since her father’s death she became the ruler of Brittany. She is constantly being forced into an arranged marriage by the Breton Court. Her “Guardian” at cort isn't the best at her job but Anne puts all trust and faith into her older brother Duval. She is the height of a child her age with pale white skin. She also has dark black hair and brown eyes.
D’Artagnan is introduced to the three musketeers by incidentally insulting all of them. They each challenge him to a duel for what he has done to them, but while he is dueling with one of the musketeers, one of the cardinal’s guards threatens to arrest them because there is a law in which says there is no dueling. D’Artagnan and the musketeers join forces and drive the guards away. Then, d’Artagnan becomes friends with the musketeers. There first mission together is to rescue d’Artagnan’s landlord’s wife, because she has been kidnapped by the cardinal’s guards for information she contains. They were successful in rescuing her, but then they see the landlord’s wife with the queen of Spain’s secret lover, the duke of Buckingham. She gave him a gift of twelve diamond tags. The cardinal finds out that the queen has given the duke of Buckingham the diamond tags, he asks the king to give a ball and demand her to wear the gift he gave her, the twelve diamond tags. Milady is ordered by the cardinal to steal 2 diamond tags, from the 12, and use it as blackmail. Immediately, the three musketeers and d’Artagnan go to London to help the queen. When d’Artagnan gets there, without the musketeers because they stayed behind fighting the cardinal’s spies, Buckingham finds out that he has lost 2 of the diamond tags. So he tells his jeweler to make 2 exact copies of the diamonds. Thus, Buckinghams gives him the copies, he gives it to d’Artagnan, and he takes it to Paris to give to the queen. Everything goes as planned.
Alexandre Dumas’s novels and in particular The Three Musketeers are so great for his ability to mix fact with fiction. As a historical novel, The Three Musketeers bases its story around some major characters and events of 17th century, French history. Cardinal Richelieu, Anne of Austria, and other important characters really lived and acted the way they do in the novel. In fact, the historical basis of Dumas's story extends all the way to his initial idea for the novel, even to the Musketeers and d’Artagnan themselves.(history 1)
In result, the Duke of Buckingham orders his personal jeweler to make two replacement tags, then he sends all twelve back to Paris with D’Artagnan- surprising the Cardinal when she appears with them all. For D’Artagnan’s courageous act, the Queen rewards him with a elegant diamond ring. After, he is told by Constance that it’s no longer safe to remain in Paris, so D’Artagnan figures it’s a perfect time to find out what happened to the musketeers. He finds them in the spot he left them, they return to Paris together, all in the need of money. While brainstorming ideas on how to obtain cash, D’Artagnan runs into Milady and is attracted by her beauty. He ends up protecting her from aggravating man, who turns out to be her brother-in-law, Lord de Winter. Lord de Winter challenges D’Artagnan to a duel, they fight and D’Artagnan overpowers the Lord, but spares him. Thankful for his life, Lord de Winter introduces D’Artagnan to Milady, Lady de Winter. Meanwhile Milady’s maid falls in love with D’Artagnan and shares with him that Milady is passionately in love with Count de Wardes- the man D’Artagnan wounded before sailing to