The main character of the novel "Three Musketeers" d'Artagnan - a historical face The main source for Dumas's novel The Three Musketeers was Sandro's Memoirs of Mr. D'Artagnan, Lieutenant-Captain of the First Company of Royal Musketeers, containing many private and secret things that happened during the reign of Louis the Magnificent. This book was published in 1701, about thirty years after d'Artagnan's death. However, Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers has a lot of literary speculation. Book translation made by tt. Waldman W. C. (Part I - Chapters I - XXI), Livshits D. G. (chapters XXII-XXX and part II-chapters I-XIII) and Xanina K. A. (Part II - Chapters XIV-XXXVI) .