When I was a child, I watched two cartoons about three musketeers, one is a dog image, one is a human image, these two cartoons are based on the literary work of the great French writer Alexandre Dumas's literary novel "The Three Musketeers", it is interesting that these two cartoons related to French historical and literary novels are all created by Japanese, today we will talk about this French historical story.
Literary masterpiece Three Musketeers
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the historical background of the three musketeers, is the historical background story of the second generation of Bourbon kings of France in the early seventeenth century, the era of Louis XIII, musketeers is the name of the officers and men of the king's musketeer guard, most of them are tall and heroic swordsmanship masters, loyal to France and the king as their mission. </h1>
Cartoon of three musketeers
Three musketeers, should be called four musketeers, because it is four people, why three musketeers, should be from the perspective of the protagonist to look at the three partners, then I will introduce these four musketeers; first of all, the seventeen-year-old protagonist d'Artagnan is the descendant of a country nobleman, brave and enthusiastic, like to play pranks, swordplay is superb, because the bet with the children of the country landlords that elephants and cows are even bigger? He came to Paris alone with his mount RossNide, met Jean, a little orphan who was looking for his mother, and his beautiful girlfriend Constance, and then everything went through a lot of things.
One of the three musketeers, The oldest and most composed man, Athos was a man of great swordsmanship, his ex-wife, Milady, a subordinate of Cardinal Richelieu and a British spy, who had to defend the security of the King of France and France, and eventually died of melancholy.
Bordeaux was one of the three musketeers, tall and strong, a direct man, with no scheming, and a more righteous man, who was killed by a boulder to save his friend.
Aramis, one of the three musketeers, with blond hair, is said to be actually a beautiful woman, and may be too handsome, and he is the best fate in this novel, because he later went to Spain and was made a duke.
Equipment of the French army in the seventeenth century
France has long been an important country in Europe, France's land area is half a million square kilometers, equivalent to the area of five Zhejiang provinces plus two Taiwan islands, agriculture has always been the pillar of France, because there is a lot of land that can grow grain, the climate is also suitable, the grain grown is mainly wheat, used to make bread, and grapes will be planted to make wine, so the French feudal system is in a strong position in European countries, the French king of the three musketeers is Louis XIII, he is the second king of the Bourbon dynasty, because he participated in the Thirty Years' War , so that the status of France is very high, in the seventeenth century; Spain because of the War of the Armada with Britain, the Dutch Revolution caused the decline of Spain's national strength, the former maritime power Portugal was surpassed by Spain, Britain, and the emerging maritime power of the Netherlands, so Portugal was mediocre, at that time Germany and Italy were divided, there was no unified powerful force, Poland, Sweden was not as strong as France, Russia just dug up, only Britain had the strength to do equal with France, But in the seventeenth century, England was caught up in the infighting of the royal power and capitalist revolution, so there was not much energy to compete with France for hegemony in Europe, leaving only a Holy Roman Empire composed of Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia, as the great French Enlightenment thinker Voltaire once said; the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman, nor an empire. They could not compete with France, because they had too many internal ethnic problems to unite, so France was the hegemon of Europe at that time.
King Louis XIII of France
In the Thirty Years' War, Britain, France, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, and some of the Protestant states of Germany were in one group, the other was Spain, Poland, the Holy Roman Empire, and some Of the Catholic nations in Germany, and the two major groups fought for thirty years for the sake of European hegemony, religious issues, and the status of the Holy Roman Empire.
Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and Catholicism are the three major sects of Christianity, and although all European countries believe in Christianity, the Christian denominations of faith are different.
Map of Europe in the seventeenth century
The background of the story of the three musketeers is that in the Thirty Years' War, King Louis XIII of France married the Spanish princess Anne as queen, and some other TV series said that she married an Austrian princess anne under the Holy Roman Empire as queen (I did not watch it in the original book), because whether it was a Spanish princess or an Austrian princess, it was a hostile country in France, so the Archbishop richelieu of France did not like the queen from this enemy country, and when he saw that the king and his wife had a good relationship, they tried to stir up dissension. Britain also did not like the Queen of France, fearing that France would fall to the side of Spain.
Therefore, the British side bribed Athos's ex-wife, the beautiful and charming woman Miledi to serve him, assassinated the queen at any time, and had no choice but to assassinate the French king Louis XIII, this plan was supported by Cardinal Richelieu, because the queen had a lover who was the Duke of Buckingham of England, so they used conspiracies to frame the queen many times from this aspect, but they were thwarted by the three musketeers, and later on Louis XIII's birthday, Miledi hired a man with excellent swordsmanship to assassinate the king. Halfway through, he was subdued by d'Artagnan in a duel with him, and Milady was subdued by Aramis and later sent to the guillotine, but Archbishop Richelieu remained favored and his power was not affected.
The slogan of the three musketeers; everyone for me, I for everyone.
Finally d'Artagnan wanted to return to his hometown in the Bordeaux countryside, because he already knew who was bigger than the cow and the elephant, because he wanted to tell his country friends, after a period of getting along, the musketeer captain Treville was very protective of him, the three musketeer brothers were reluctant to let him go home, and he hugged and said goodbye, and his girlfriend Constance, after so long of feelings, it was also very difficult to give up, but d'Artagnan promised that Constance would come to meet her, the only sad thing was Littlefoot Jean, This orphan who has wanted to find his mother since he was a child, since d'Artagnan came to Paris for four years, they are inseparable, Jean has also helped d'Artagnan a lot, of course, d'Artagnan also takes care of Jean a lot, the orphans have a hard time wandering, now they are going to separate, Jean also plans to go to the northeast of France to continue to find his mother, refused to go to d'Artagnan's hometown and adopt his kindness, after the two hugged tightly, d'Artagnan said to Jean; remember, when there is difficulty, he must come back to me... Jean turned his head to say goodbye to him with tears in her eyes... Sunset sent down to d'Artagnan to his hometown in the bordeaux countryside to the southwest, Jean to the northeast... In the distance, d'Artagnan's mount Rose Ned suddenly tore and screamed, as if blessing Jean who was slowly going northeast... The novel ends here.