The Three Musketeers, the novel by Alexandre Dumas, has been adapted into multiple films, both live-action and animated.
In Venice, the musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with the help of Milady de Winter, steal airship blueprints made by Leonardo da Vinci. A year later, d’Artagnan leaves his village in Gascony for Paris in hopes of becoming a musketeer as his father was, only to learn that they were disbanded.
In 1625, young-but-skilled fencer d’Artagnan sets off for Paris, France in hopes to follow in his murdered father’s footsteps and become a member of the musketeers: the personal guard of the King of France. Unfortunately, Captain Rochefort of the Cardinal’s Guards has disbanded the musketeers per the orders of Cardinal Richelieu, the King’s Minister, ostensibly to help fight in an impending war with England.
In 1630s Paris, Athos, Aramis and Porthos are a group of highly trained musketeers commanded by Captain Treville who meet d’Artagnan, a skillful farm boy with hopes of becoming a musketeer. The series follows them as they fight to protect King and country.
Having learned swordsmanship from his father, the young country bumpkin d’Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king’s musketeer. D’Artagnan sides with the musketeers in the ensuing street fight and becomes their ally in opposition to the Cardinal, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king, Louis XIII.
The young boy, d’Artagnan witnesses the murder of his parents at the hands of Febre, chief henchman of Cardinal Richelieu. Fourteen years later the grown d’Artagnan finds on his arrival in Paris that the musketeers have been disbanded by order of Cardinal Richelieu, who is usurping the king’s authority with the help of Febre.
During the Anglo-French War (1627–1629), Cardinal Richelieu continues the machinations he began in The Three Musketeers by ordering the Count de Rochefort to kidnap Constance Bonancieux, dressmaker to the Queen Anne of France. The evil Milady de Winter, who wants revenge on junior musketeer d’Artagnan, seduces him to keep him occupied.
The story begins with Troubadour, a French-accented turtle who loves songs, backstage of a show trying to remind the narrator that he promised to use one of Troubadour’s songs. Mickey is gifted one of their hats, inspiring them to follow their example and become musketeers; however, in the present day, Mickey, Donald and Goofy are lowly janitors for the musketeers’ headquarters and their dream was still far away.
At the behest of his father, young d’Artagnan travels from rural Gascony to Paris, where he becomes embroiled in a devious plot between the King’s Musketeers and the Guardsmen of Cardinal Richelieu.