The heroic young d'Artagnan and his noble compatriots Athos, Porthos, and Aramis are pitted against the master of intrigue, Cardinal Richelieu, and the quintessential wicked woman, Lady de Winter.
The discovery of the true identity of a twenty-three-year-old prisoner who has been held for eight years in the Bastille leads D'Artagnan and the original Three Musketeers into a web of political intrigue in the court of King Louis XIV in seventeenth-century France.
In their final adventure, the four Musketeers plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.
In 1815 Edmond Dant?s, a young and successful merchant sailor who has just recently been granted the succession of his erstwhile captain Lecl?re, returns to Marseille to marry his Catalan fianc?e Merc?d?s. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dant?s is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration.
In their final adventure, the four Musketeers plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.
