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Visit the site to download free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels.  \nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial 3.0 United States License.   \nAUTHOR’S PREFACE  \nIn which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names’ending in OS and IS, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them.  \nA short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my History of Louis XIV, I stumbled by chance upon the Memoirs of M. d’Artagnan, printed—as were most of the works of that period, in which authors could not tell the truth without the risk of a residence, more or less long, in the Bastille—at Amsterdam, by Pierre Rouge. The title attracted me; I took them home with me, with the permission of the guardian, and devoured them.  \nIt is not my intention here to enter into an analysis of this curious work; and I shall satisfy myself with referring such of my readers as appreciate the pictures of the period to its pages. They will therein find portraits penciled by the hand of a master; and although these squibs may be, for the most part, traced upon the doors of barracks and the walls of cabarets, they will not find the likenesses of Louis XIII, Anne of Austria, Richelieu, Mazarin, and the courtiers of the period, less faithful than in the history of M. Anquetil. But, it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers. Now, while admiring, as others doubtless will admire, the details  \n[Free eBooks at](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com)[ Planet eBook.com](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com) 3  \nwe have to relate, our main preoccupation concerned a matter to which no one before ourselves had given a thought.  \nD’Artagnan relates that on his first visit to M. de Treville, captain of the king’s Musketeers, he met in the antechamber three young men, serving in the illustrious corps into which he was soliciting the honor of being received, bearing the names of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.  \nWe must confess these three strange names struck us; and it immediately occurred to us that they were but pseudonyms, under which d’Artagnan had disguised names perhaps illustrious, or else that the bearers of these borrowed names had themselves chosen them on the day in which, from caprice, discontent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple Musketeer’s uniform.  \nFrom the moment we had no rest till we could find some trace in contemporary works of these extraordinary names which had so strongly awakened our curiosity.  \nThe catalogue alone of the books we read with this object would fill a whole chapter, which, although it might be very instructive, would certainly afford our readers but little amusement. It will suffice, then, to tell them that at the moment at which, discouraged by so many fruitless investigations, we were about to abandon our search, we at length found, guided by the counsels ofour illustrious friend Paulin Paris, a manuscript in folio, endorsed 4772 or 4773, we do not recollect which, having for title, ‘Memoirs of the Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the Commencement of the Reign of King Louis XIV.’  \n4 The Three Musketeers  \nIt may be easily imagined how great was our joy when, in turning over this manuscript, our last hope, we found atthe twentieth page the name of Athos, at the twenty-seventh the name of Porthos, and at the thirty-first the name ofAramis.  \nThe discovery of a completely unknown manuscript at a period in which historical science is carried to such a high degree appeared almost miraculous. We hastened, therefore, to obtain permission to print it, with the view of presenting ourselves someday with the pack of others at the doors of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, if we shou","cbCaimzrAA4oIxdJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimzrAA4oIxdJ","pdf",5096386,945,"English","# Author’s Preface\n## The discovery of the manuscript\n# Chapter 1 The Three Presents of d’Artagnan the Elder","[{\"question\":\"What does the author claim about Athos, Porthos, and Aramis in the preface?\",\"answer\":\"The preface argues that despite their names’ endings, these heroes have nothing mythological about them, and that the names function as disguised or chosen identities.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the narrator say the manuscript was found?\",\"answer\":\"While researching in the Royal Library for a history of Louis XIV, the narrator discovers the memoir manuscript attributed to M. d’Artagnan and takes it home for study.\"},{\"question\":\"What happens at the start of the first chapter (April 1625)?\",\"answer\":\"Meung experiences unrest as citizens react to panic and commotion, with women fleeing and a crowd gathering around the hostelry of the Jolly Miller.\"}]","The Three Musketeers | PDF",1455]