Three Musketeers, The

noun

1. French Les Trois Mousquetaires, a historical novel (1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.

The Three Musketeers

1. (1844) A novel by the French author Alexandre Dumas, set in seventeenth-century France . The Three Musketeers are comrades of the central character , D'Artagnan, a man younger than they, who becomes a musketeer after performing many daring deeds. The motto of the Three Musketeers is “ All for one and one for all .”

Example Sentences

His additional film credits include “The Other Guys,” “The Three Musketeers,” the “Divergent” trilogy and Marvel’s “Thor,” where he portrayed Volstagg, an Asgardian warrior.

From Los Angeles Times

“Isn’t he something? In The Three Musketeers, the scene where D’Artagnan fights all the three musketeers at once is based on Dumas’s dad. For real. And look, the subtitle: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo.”

From Literature

What I loved the most was the French novels, like “The Three Musketeers”; ; “The Count of Monte Cristo”; “Around the World in 80 Days”; “The Secret of the Island,” “Michel Strogoff.”

From New York Times

In addition to the box set, a new book about the brothers, “Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage” by Robert S. Bader, is coming out this week.  A new benchmark in Marx scholarship, the book chronicles the more than two decades evolution of the brothers’ stage act before they became Broadway’s so-called overnight sensations.

From Los Angeles Times

Other shows in the first round of openings are “Much Ado About Nothing,” ”The Three Musketeers,” ”The Cocoanuts” and “Mary Poppins.”

From Washington Times