Three Musketeers: Les Trois Mousquetaires (Beloved Books Edition)

The adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a guard of the musketeers.

D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.

When Alexandre Dumas wrote The Three Musketeers he also was a practising fencer and like many other French gentlemen of his generation he attended the schools for Canne de combat and Savate of Michel Casseux, Charles Lecour and Joseph Charlemont (who had been a regular fencing instructor in the French army).