Set in the seventeenth century, the film is about the daughter of the renowned swordsman D'Artagnan who keeps the spirit of the Musketeers alive by bringing together the aging members of the legendary band to oppose a plot to overthrow the King and seize power.

One feisty novice, Eloise (Sophie Marceau)—the daughter of the renowned swordsman D'Artagnan (Philippe Noiret) of the famed Three Musketeers—stands up to the intruders, but is shoved aside as they ride off after the frightened slave who escaped from the evil Duke Crassac de Merindol.

Eloise finds a blood-stained piece of paper (a simple laundry list) that the slave used to stop a bleeding wound, and believes it holds some secret code.

Meanwhile, Eloise heads to the royal court, where she meets Cardinal Mazarin (Gigi Proietti) who is teaching the youthful King Louis XIV (Stéphane Legros) the subtleties of deceitful diplomacy.

Eloise finds the body of a dead nun before encountering Eglantine in the process of destroying all evidence of her existence from the convent's records.

Eloise is captured by Eglantine's accomplice and taken to Crassac's castle dock where she joins the nuns who are being sold and shipped to the Americas as slaves.

During the ensuing battle, Eloise chases after the fleeing Crassac and engages him in an extended sword fight that leads them to the roof of the palace.

Just as Crassac is about to kill Eloise, D'Artagnan arrives and runs the evil Duke through with a sword, ending the threat to his daughter and to his King.

[5] Tavernier kept the film true to its genre, adding many of the expected components, including the innocent and rebellious heroine, scheming nobles, lengthy sword-fights, spectacular horseback escapes, and subplots involving romance and conspiracies.

[6] At several points throughout the film, the director adds good-natured parody to the mix, as when Aramis witnesses the cavaliers heroically leaping on horseback from the quay to the ship, wryly notes, "Heroic, but absurd ..."[6] Revenge of the Musketeers was filmed on location at the Château de Biron in Biron, Dordogne in southwestern France, the Château de Maisons in Maisons-Laffitte in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, and in Portugal.

[8] In his review on AV Club website, Keith Phipps wrote, "Tavernier's assured direction and a game performance from Marceau make it worth a look.

[10] The Flickering Myth website praised the film's solid entertaining qualities: D'Artagnan's Daughter is precisely the kind of fun and feisty swashbuckler French cinema excels at.