The Three Musketeers

Young country bumpkin d'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. Unaccustomed to the city life, he finds himself insulted, knocked out and robbed by the Comte de Rochefort, an agent of Cardinal Richelieu. He also begins an affair with his landlord's wife, Constance Bonacieux, who is dressmaker to the Queen, Anne of Austria. The Duke of Buckingham asks for something in remembrance of her; she gives him a necklace with twelve settings of diamonds, a gift from her husband.