original sequence Nearly a year ago, in order to compile the history of Louis XIV, I went to the royal library to collect materials, and came across a book entitled "Memoirs of D'Artagnan".The book was typeset at the Danish Books in Amsterdam.Back then, if French writers wanted to tell the truth without going to the Bastille for a short or long period of time, most of them sent their works to the Dutch capital for publication.Fascinated by its title, I took it home and read it avidly, with the curator's permission, of course. I have no intention of dissecting this wonderful book here, but I leave this work to my readers who love the scrolls of the times.From this book, they will see portraits that can be described as generously written; although these portraits are often painted on the doors of barracks or the walls of small hotels, readers can still recognize some of them that are similar to those of Anquetil. (A French historian in the 18th century.) The same lifelike characters in his historical works, such as the images of Louis XIII, Anna Austria, Richelieu, Mazarin and most of the courtiers at that time.

But, as is well known, what makes a strong impression on the capricious mind of a writer does not always make a deep impression on the reader at large.Yet when we appreciate the details we mention as others may appreciate, we are most concerned with things that no one has noticed before us. D'Artagnan records that when he first visited M. de Treville, the captain of the King's Fusiliers, and asked to accept him into this prestigious musketeer, he saw three young men in the waiting room.They were all musketeers of the team, and their surnames were Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. To be honest, when we saw these three unfamiliar surnames, we all felt strange and immediately thought that they were all pseudonyms.If the three pseudonyms had not been chosen by themselves on the day of wearing the plain musketeer uniform due to whim, bad mood, or bad luck, it would have been used by d'Artagnan to hide several famous names. surname.

These three unusual surnames aroused our intense curiosity.Since then, we have been looking for traces of them in the writings of modern people. The number of books we consult for this purpose alone could fill a whole column.This bibliography may be informative, but it will certainly be dull to our readers.So we tell them with satisfaction that when we were discouraged after much futile research and were about to give up the work, our famous and learned friend Pauline Paris (1800｜1881, Royal Books) Curator of the museum, professor of the Collège de France, expert in medieval literature.) finally found a folio manuscript, its number is 4772 or 4773, we don’t remember clearly, the title is:

Memoirs of Count Raphael Essays on some major events in France during the last years of Louis XIII and the beginning of Louis XIV We looked at this manuscript as our last hope, and in the process of leafing through it found the name Athos on page 20, Porthos on page 27, and Aramis on page 31. .It is not difficult to imagine how happy we were at that time. In an age of highly developed historiography, it is almost a miracle that a completely unknown manuscript should be discovered.We therefore hastened to ask permission to print it, in the hope that in the future, if not admitted to the Academie de France on the basis of our own writings, then we might be admitted to the Institute of Gold and Stone and the Faculty of Letters by the writings of others.It should be said that our request was readily accepted.We record these words here to expose the lies of those with malicious intentions who claim that our government cares little for literati.

However, what we present to our readers today is only a part of this precious manuscript, having given it a proper title, and promising that, should the first part achieve its due success, as we are convinced, the second part will be published immediately. part. The godfather is the second father, so here we would like to remind the reader that whether you find this book interesting or boring is entirely our responsibility and has nothing to do with Count Raphael. Let's stop gossip and get down to business.