Resources

Dumas on the web

English and French:

• The Alexandre Dumas père Web Site - This is THE web site about Dumas. It consists of two parallel sites in English and French. Comprehensive, well presented, everything you could need about Dumas is here.

• Alexandre Dumas - Homepage for the Dumas' Friends Society. Features French and Enlglish website. Also very good and complete.

French:

• La bibliothèque Alexandre Dumas The works of Dumas free and online in pdfs.
• Dossier Dumas - Digital interactive website about Dumas.

Spanish:

• Alejandro Dumas Vida y Obras: a good comprehensive website, in Spanish. Very good if you ignore the music.

Wikipedia entries: French English Spanish Italian

Something for the background.

If you are reading The Three Musketeers, here's some pages that can help with the background:

Characters:

• Charles de Batz-Castelmore, the real man upon which the character D'Artagnan is based.
• René d'Herblay better known as Aramis. (Mind some potential spoilers in this entry).
• The Cardinal.
• King Louis XII of France.
• Queen Anne of Austria
• George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.

Events:

• The Siege of La Rochelle  

Currency:

• Pistole
• French livre
• Louis

For more background on the characters, events, institutions and the way they are portrayed by Dumas as opposed to their historical traits, be sure to check History of Dumas’ Musketeers, a very extensive web site on all those subjects.

You can proceed from here to the indexes of any of the available translations (English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese). We sincerely hope to provide you with a lot of fun and an interesting online reading experience. If you are fond of the author, you'll find some very good websites in our resources page. Last but not least, feel free to drop us a line or two (maybe more?) with your thoughts. You can also have a look to other books in our collection (for instance, here's the first page of War and Peace).