"Les trois mousquetaires" by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet is a French historical adventure novel written and published in 1844. Young d'Artagnan leaves home for Paris, hoping to join the elite Musketeers of the Guard. Though initially unable to join, he befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and becomes entangled in dangerous affairs of state and court intrigue. Set between 1625 and 1628, this swashbuckling tale follows heroic swordsmen fighting for justice amid political conspiracies and forbidden romance in a turbulent France.