Dumas

Three Musketeers

Novel's titled sword-fighters

• Count of Monte CristoClassic revenge novel
• swashbucklingFlamboyantly daring and heroic
• AthosSacred Greek promontory

Porthos · Aramis · revenge · adventure · serialized · historical fiction · romance · intrigue · swordfight · duel

Paris

France's chief city

• 19th centuryThe eighteen hundreds
• French literatureWritten works from France
• MarseilleMajor southern French seaport

francophone · boulevardier · salon · Parisian · France

novel

New and unusual

• plotStoryline or land parcel
• narrativeAccount of events
• characterizationDescribing distinctive qualities

dialogue · prose · fiction · serialization · protagonist · antagonist · theme · suspense · climax · denouement

Napoleon

French emperor, military genius

• BourbonFrench ruling family
• revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
• monarchyRule by crowned sovereign

Louis XIV · Richelieu · Bastille · musketeers · France · era · empire · ancien régime · restoration

adaptation

Fitting to new conditions

• filmMovie or coating
• stageRaised performance platform
• musicalSung theatrical production

classic · canon · influence · translation · illustrated · abridged · public domain · cultural icon · enduring · bestseller

• French WritersVictor Hugo, Hugo, Jules Verne, Verne, Voltaire
• AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Twain
• FranceParis, Notre-Dame, Lyon, croissant, Toulouse
• NovelistsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen
• Classic AuthorsShakespeare, Dante, Homer, Chaucer, Milton