title: The Three Musketeers: In Easy-To-Read-Type (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)
author:  Alexandre Dumas 
description: Text: English (translation)<br /> Original Language: French
zlib_text: **Louise de la Valliere**
  
   _The Three Musketeers, Volume V_
  
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   **Alexandre Dumas, Pere**
  
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  **Chapter I.**
  
   _Malaga._
  
  During all these long and noisy debates between the opposite ambitions of
  politics and love, one of our characters, perhaps the one least deserving of
  neglect, was, however, very much neglected, very much forgotten, and
  exceedingly unhappy. In fact, D'Artagnan