The French writer and playwright Alexandre Dumas the father (called so in contrast to his son, also a writer, Alexandre Dumas) was born in 1803. He died in 1870.. Dumas wrote a lot of novels and dramas .. The complete collection of his works includes 277 volumes .. He is best known for his adventure novels: The Three Musketeers and two sequels to this novel, Twenty Years Later and Ten Years Later (or Viscount de Bragelon), The Count of Monte Cristo, and others. A number of his works Dumas wrote together with other writers .. However, Dumas' work in these books is basic. 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, the captain-lieutenant 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 1 - Chapters 1-XXI), Livshits D. G. (Part I - Chapters XXII-XXX and Part II - Chapters I-XIII) and Xanina D. A. (Part II - Chapters XIV-XXXVI). Drawings by Maurice Leloir .