<B><I>The Three Musketeers</I></B> recounts the adventures of a young man called d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. The story covers the adventures of d'Artagnan and his friends from 1626 to 1628, as they are involved in intrigues involving the weak King Louis XIII of France, his powerful and cunning advisor Cardinal Richelieu, the beautiful Queen Anne of Austria, her English lover, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and the siege of the rebellious Huguenot city of La Rochelle. Adding to the intrigue are the mysterious Milady de Winter, and Richelieu's right-hand man, Comte de Rochefort.