The three musketeers

A short time ago, while making researches in the Royal Library for my History of Louis XIV., I stumbled by chance upon the Memoirs of M. d’Artagnan, printed—as were most of the works of that period, in which authors could not tell the truth without the risk of a residence, more or less long, in the Bastille—at Amsterdam, by Pierre Rouge.

不久前，在皇家图书馆为我的《路易十四世历史》做研究时，我偶然发现了达达尼昂先生的回忆录，这些回忆录——就像那个时期的大多数作品一样，在作者不能说出真相，否则可能会在巴士底狱中度过或多或少的时间——是在阿姆斯特丹由皮埃尔·鲁热印刷的。

D’Artagnan relates that on his first visit to M. de Tréville, captain of the king’s Musketeers, he met in the antechamber three young men, serving in the illustrious corps into which he was soliciting the honor of being received, bearing the names of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.

达达尼昂叙述说，在他第一次拜访国王火枪队队长德·特雷维尔先生时，他在前厅遇到了三位年轻人，他们服务于那个他渴望被接受的杰出团体，他们分别叫做阿托斯、波尔托斯和阿拉米斯。