Les Trois mousquetaires

No one today can be unaware of the names of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and d’Artagnan. But the glory that precedes them obscures the realities of Dumas’s text. Because in truth, the musketeers impose in the novel and on the stage of history a singular figure of a hero. Scruffy, drunk, violent, amoral hustlers, not only are they not the great knights that we believe, but above all they occupy a unique political place in the kingdom. Armed and legitimized by the king, their freedom of action seems unlimited and yet, almost none of their feats of arms are done legally. They are gray area heroes; they stand in the middle, between Caesar and Mandrin, between the sovereign and the outlaw.

The Collective 49 701 creates serials on stage, this commercial and lucrative form of literature, massively diffused in the 19th century and revitalized today by the television series. In three seasons of three episodes – one season per day of celebration – the collective reclaim this literary blockbuster by trying to pay tribute to the brutal and messy energy of these young men who – all for one and one for all – would die on the spot rather than surrender their swords.