Lester’s The Three Musketeers is a comic adaptation of Alexandre Duma’s novel. The halte de chasse on the royal hunt portrays the lavish preparation for an outdoor meal fit for a king. Louis XIV spent many hours hunting, and there is a passing discussion of a stag hunting party in the park at St. Germaine, but Dumas gives no details.
Featured Image: King Louis XIV’s halt de chasse.
See Richard Lester. The Three Musketeers (1973). The screenplay by George McDonald Fraser is based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas (1842).