Writer Justin Aucoin (@JMAucoin_writer) joins host Emily Edwards to discuss Porthos, Athos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan, also known as the most hard-drinking, wife-stealing, sword-playing French swashbucklers, THE THREE MUSKETEERS. We discuss the appeal of male ride-or-die friendships, Alexander Dumas's multi-racial approach to writing for racist readers, and wine. Lots of wine.  Buy books discussed on the show at our Bookshop.org page: https://bookshop.org/lists/fbol-subjects

For a transcript of our show, visit https://www.fuckboisoflit.com/episodes/2020/7/22/episode-62-the-three-musketeers

Summary of THE THREE MUSKETEERS:

Coming of age in the souther, rural province of Gascony, D'Artagnan aways to Paris upon his 18th year to follow in his father's footsteps to become one of the king's guards, called The Musketeers. Upon his first day in Paris, he gets into duels with the original Three: Porthos, Athos, and Aramis. He proves himself worthy to the men, and they take him on as a fourth confidant, in their schemes to protect the King and Queen against the conniving Cardinal Richelieu. In addition to a new nemesis in the Cardinal, D'Artagnan eventually finds himself at odds with the Cardinal's lead assassin, Milady, and at the center of a kidnapping plot when the woman he loves– Constance, the wife of D'Artagnan's landlord– is taken from him in an effort to convince him to stop meddling in Richelieu's machinations.