reference to Twenty Years After a historical
romance written by Alexandre
Dumas as a
sequel to The Three Musketeers, a famous
novel set in the seventeenth century about a young Frenchman determined to become one of the guardsmen (musketeers) of the
king of
France, and his adventures with three of the most renowned musketeers of the
day. The
sequel takes
place twenty years later when these same four men travel to
England where they try unsuccessfully to save Charles, the
king of
England, from being beheaded. See also
Dumas in this glossary.
a
reference to the
novel Twenty Years After, the
second in a
series of books by
French author Alexandre
Dumas (1802-1870). This book was the
sequel to The Three Musketeers, the tale of D'Artagnan, a young Frenchman determined to become one of the
King's guardsmen, and of his daring
escapades with three of the most renowned and swashbuckling fighters of the
day, Athos, Porthos and Aramis. The
sequel, Twenty Years After, gives further accounts of their adventures and is followed by The
Man in the
Iron Mask in which D'Artagnan is notified that he has been appointed the Marshal of
France by
King Louis XIV (1638-1715). Just as he is handed the Marshal's baton (the symbolic baton of the
position), he is
hit by a cannonball and dies.
reference to one of the sequels to The Three Musketeers, written by
French novelist and playwright Alexandre
Dumas (1802?1870). The Three Musketeers is a historical
romance set in the seventeenth century, about a young Frenchman named D(
tm)Artagnan who is determined to become one of the guardsmen (musketeers) of the
king of
France. In the
process of doing so, he befriends three of the most renowned musketeers of the daySAthos, Porthos and Aramis.
Dumas wrote two sequels to this
novel,
relating the