reference to Twenty Years After: a historical romance written by Alexandre Dumas as a sequel to The Three Musketeers, a famous novelset in the seventeenth century about a young Frenchman determined to become one of the guardsmen (musketeers) of the king of France, and his adventures with three of the most renowned musketeers of the day. The sequel takes place twenty years later when these same four men travel to England where they try unsuccessfully to save Charles, the king of England, from being beheaded. See also Dumas in this glossary.—PDC Volume 3 Approved Glossary