https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i by Alexandre Dumas en-us 2017-09-04 05:52:37 UTC 2023-03-17 12:01:12 UTC hello@padlet.com elizabethl https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184474204 by Alexandre Dumas]]> 2017-09-04 05:53:21 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184474204 elizabethl https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184474775 Alexandre Dumas was born on July 24, 1802, in Villers-Cotterêts, France. ... Dumas established himself as one of the most popular and prolific authors in France, known for plays and historical adventure novels such as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. He died on December 5, 1870, in Puys, France.]]> 2017-09-04 06:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184474775 elizabethl https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184474897 One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written. The Three Musketeers tell the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman d'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers: Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.

Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of the Cardinal Richelieu and the honor of the queen against the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of 17th-century France are vividly played out in the background.

But their most dangerous encounter is with the Cardinal's spy: Milady, one of literature's most memorable female villains.]]> 2017-09-04 06:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184474897 elizabethl https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184476050 2017-09-04 06:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184476050 elizabethl https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184476735 2017-09-04 06:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184476735 elizabethl https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184476883 2017-09-04 06:22:56 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184476883 elizabethl https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184477177 2017-09-04 06:24:44 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184477177 elizabethl https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184477379 2017-09-04 06:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184477379 elizabethl https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184477443 2017-09-04 06:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184477443 elizabethl https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184477580

Friendship. The primary friendship featured in The Three Musketeers is between four young gentlemen devoted to the King. ...

Love. ...

Pride. ...

Society and Class. ...

Revenge. ...

Ambition. ...

Mortality. ...

Loyalty.

]]> 2017-09-04 06:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184477580 elizabethl https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184477794 D'Artagnan  -  The central character of the novel, d'Artagnan is a young, impoverished Gascon nobleman who comes to make his fortune in Paris. He is brave, noble, ambitious, crafty, and intelligent. Like any Romantic hero, he is driven by love and ruled by chivalry, but occasionally prone to fall into amoral behavior.

]]> 2017-09-04 06:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184477794 elizabethl https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184478060 Lady de Winter  -  A mysterious, beautiful, dangerous, and ultimately evil Cardinalist agent. D'Artagnan becomes obsessed with her, but eventually she and the Musketeers become fierce adversaries. Milady has a secret, and she kills anyone who finds it out--her left shoulder is branded with the Fleur-de-Lis, a mark put on the worst criminals.]]> 2017-09-04 06:33:38 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184478060 elizabethl https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184478815 Athos -  The most important of the Three Musketeers, Athos is something of a father figure to d'Artagnan. He is older than his comrades, although still a young man. Athos is distinguished in every way--intellect, appearance, bravery, swordsmanship--yet he is tortured by a deep melancholy, the source of which no one knows.]]> 2017-09-04 06:39:10 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184478815 elizabethl https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184479152 Cardinal Richelieu  -  The King's most influential advisor, Richelieu is the most powerful and important man in France. He is furiously self-absorbed, but also an extremely effective leader of the state. Richelieu works hard to maintain the reputation and power of the king, since this is the stock on which his own status is based.]]> 2017-09-04 06:41:37 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184479152 elizabethl https://padlet.com/elizabethl/41mojhkp8q9i/wish/184479905 “All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.”
“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”
“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”
“A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.” 

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