Summary
Paris, 1620-ish: candle-smoke corridors of the Louvre vibrate with whispers sharper than rapiers. Richelieu—scarlet spider at the web’s center—conjures scandal from royal bedsheets, brandishing the Queen’s clandestine trinket like a guillotine of gossip. Into this crucible of chandeliers and coded glances gallops D’Artagnan, Gascon firebrand with a grin that could ignite gunpowder. He duels, befriends, and drinks the city until dawn bruises the Seine, forging a triune brotherhood with Athos—melancholic nobleman nursing a cask of secrets—Porthos, human cannonball wrapped in velvet, and Aramis, poet-warrior who trades psalms for parries. Their blades carve paths through tavern brawls, masked balls, and midnight abductions until the ultimate bauble—a diamond-studded sunburst—must be torn from Buckingham’s English bosom and raced back before dawn’s drumbeat of disgrace. The mission hurtles across fog-thick Channel waves, through lantern-lit London alleys, and culminates beneath the gilded vaults of a royal fête where loyalty outwits conspiracy, steel rings like cathedral bells, and the Queen’s honor is stitched back together by a seamstress’s trembling yet defiant hand.
Synopsis
Cardinal Richelieu, engaged in intrigue at the court of Louis XIII, attempts to rule by threatening the queen, who is secretly in love with the Duke of Buckingham. From Gascony comes D'Artagnan to join the King's Musketeers in his quest for adventure. He wins the right to membership by proving his prowess with the sword and forms an eternal alliance with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, the Three Musketeers. After many adventures, he embarks on a dangerous mission to England to recover a diamond brooch, a gift of the king, which the queen has given to Buckingham as a token of affection. He recovers it and returns in time to save the queen from the wrath of Louis, defeat the cardinal's intrigue, and win Constance, the queen's seamstress.
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