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The Three Musketeers Lesson Plan

Introduction to The Three Musketeers

First published in a serial format in France in the 1840s, Alexandre Dumas's swashbuckling epic The Three Musketeers was a book which helped secure its author's legacy for centuries to come. Already translated several times a decade later, The Three Musketeers has only racked up more translations to its name since then, and much more besides: to date, over 100 film adaptations of the book have been made, attesting both to its astounding versatility and to the enduring appeal of the story's characters.

In The Three Musketeers, readers are introduced to the 17th century world of France under the ancien régime, a world in which the king still rules absolutely and religious wars still lurk...

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