# Dumas Question, re: musketeers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2011, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumas-question-re-musketeers/582294 "2011-05-18T07:49:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumas-question-re-musketeers/582294/1 "2011-05-18T07:49:07Z")
Its not specifically about the musketeers, but other than the count of monte christo and the musketeers, what other books did he write and in what order, if I was to look at them in the format of a modern series. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumas-question-re-musketeers/582294/2 "2011-05-18T08:45:54Z")
> **[Alexandre Dumas | Works](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas#Works)** > > 1.Acté of Corinth; or, The convert of St. Paul. a tale of Greece and Rome. (1839), a novel about Rome, Nero, and early Christianity. | > 2.Isaac Laquedem (1852–53, incomplete) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumas-question-re-musketeers/582294/3 "2011-05-18T11:35:57Z")
There are no Dumas questions. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumas-question-re-musketeers/582294/4 "2011-05-18T11:40:19Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > There are no Dumas questions. Win! Despite its excessive size _The Count of Monte Cristo_ remains my favorite novel. Conversely, I’d avoid all but the first of the D’Artagnan romances; _The Three Musketeers_ is good but some of the later adventures drag on and on and on, and _The Man in the Iron Mask_ is not nearly as exciting as the various film mutilations would have you believe. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumas-question-re-musketeers/582294/5 "2011-05-18T18:12:07Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > There are no Dumas questions. Only Dumas posters…😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumas-question-re-musketeers/582294/6 "2011-05-18T18:35:24Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > There are no Dumas questions. Bwhaaaa… choice! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumas-question-re-musketeers/582294/7 "2011-05-18T18:50:50Z")
Worth noting that Dumas sometimes used ghostwriters to whom he farmed out some stuff like exposition and even occasionally action and romance scenes. (Not a scandal: he made no secret of this.) His son Alexandre Dumas, Jr., was also a very successful playwright and novelist (but primarily playwright). [His works](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas,_fils#Bibliography). ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumas-question-re-musketeers/582294/8 "2011-05-18T18:54:58Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > Only Dumas posters…😃 [The name…is Dumass.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPTfwW89UIY&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumas-question-re-musketeers/582294/9 "2011-05-19T00:39:26Z")
Supposedly, Dumas approached a friend and asked “Have you read my latest novel?” “No,” the friend replied. “Have you?” ---
**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2011, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumas-question-re-musketeers/582294/10 "2011-05-19T08:20:09Z")
i find him a far better storyteller than victor. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumas-question-re-musketeers/582294/11 "2011-05-23T02:35:46Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > [Alexandre Dumas - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Dumas#Works) > [@Declan](#): > > in what order, if I was to look at them in the format of a modern series. > > Declan Looking over the ones I’ve read, and the ones I’ve heard about, I would say: first\* The Two Dianas\* then the Valois romances then the D’Artagnan romances then _The Black Tulip_ then _The Wolf Leader_ then the Marie Antoinette romances then _The Count of Monte Cristo_ I’m not sure whether _The Corsican Brothers_ is set before or after the time of _The Count of Monte Cristo_. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumas-question-re-musketeers/582294/12 "2011-05-24T04:44:30Z")
Dumas wrote countless novels, as others have said. His best-known series are: the “Three Musketeers” series (from the Wikipedia article) [ol][li]The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires, 1844)[/li][li]Twenty Years After (Vingt ans après, 1845)[/li][li]The Vicomte de Bragelonne, sometimes called “Ten Years Later”, (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tard, 1847): When published in English, it was usually split into three parts: The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask[/ol][/li] The Valois Trilogy, covers the period of the French wars of religion preceding the accession of the Bourbons (Henri IV) to the throne [ol][li]La Reine Margot (1845)[/li][li]La Dame de Monsoreau (1846) (a.k.a. Chicot the Jester)[/li][li]The Forty-Five Guardsmen (1847) (Les Quarante-cinq)[/ol][/li] The “Mémoires d’un médecin” series relating the end of the French Monarchy: [ol][li]Joseph Balsamo (Mémoires d’un médecin: Joseph Balsamo, 1846–1848) (a.k.a. Memoirs of a Physician, Cagliostro, Madame Dubarry, The Countess Dubarry, or The Elixir of Life)(Joseph Balsamo has a length of about 1000 pages, and is usually separated into 2 volumes in English translations: Vol 1. Joseph Balsamo and Vol 2. Memoirs of a Physician.)[/li][li]The Queen’s Necklace (Le Collier de la Reine, 1849–1850)[/li][li]Ange Pitou (1853) (a.k.a. Storming the Bastille or Six Years Later)[/li][li]The Countess de Charny (La Comtesse de Charny, 1853–1855) (a.k.a. Andrée de Taverney, or The Mesmerist’s Victim)[/ol][/li] The wikipedia article also lists: Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge (1845) (a.k.a. The Knight of the Red House, or The Knight of Maison-Rouge) as the last book in the previous series (Mémoires d’un médecin) but it doesn’t really belong there. It just happens to take place shortly after the events of The Countess de Charny but none of the characters from the previous series appear (except the King and Queen of France). Then there are the stand-alone books like The Count of Monte-Cristo, one of his best novels. I see that at the english-language Wikipedia article they mention Georges (1843), that is worth reading just to see his first attempt at the story that was later more fully developed in The Count of Monte-Cristo (man suffers a reversal of fortune, disappears and comes back as an accomplished and rich person, seeking revenge.) I would start with Count of Monte-Cristo, then the Musketeers. If the Musketeers series has kept your interest, then either of the two following series would be good to read (I prefer the Valois series).