d'Artagnan

D' Artagnan, the hero of the novel " the three musketeers ", is certainly with Cyrano of the most known Bergerac of the six heroes of adventures " chosen by the Post office. It is in the newspaper " the Century " that the novel of Alexandre Dumas (1 802-1870 > appears in serial as from March 14, 1844. The initial title " Athos, Porthos and Aramis " considered to be too obscure was replaced by " the three musketeers " who actually are well four. Success was immediate, and continued in 1845 with " Twenty years after " and " the Viscount of Bragelonne " in 1847. Since these adventures made the turn of the world.

Each one knows the frame of this history. D' Artagnan, helped of his/her friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis, saves the Anne queen of Austria while recovering in England, afterwards multiple adventures, the tags of diamonds which it had offered to Buckingham. D' Artagnan must fight against MILADY, heart damnée of the Cardinal of Richelieu, who will acknowledge itself finally overcome.

The character of Artagnan existed well. Charles de Batz-Castelmore is the son junior by the lord of Lupiac. Having chosen soldiering, it enters the regiment of the French guards, taking the name of its maternal family, lords of Artagnan, small village of Bigorre.

With the service of Mazarin dice 1646, it becomes into 1658 officer in the troop of elite of the musketeers. It is him which is in charge of the arrest of Fouquet into 1661, then of its guard until its lawsuit in 1664. Devoted and courageous officer, it is killed with the head office of Maastricht the 24juin 1673.

Alexandre Dumas largely took as a starting point this history, but officer with the service of the King makes place to an intrepid, adventurous young man and charmer. He traces this time and of the young Gascon a portrait if attaching and so alive that one forgives him readily all his imaginations. It is well thanks to him that this character, become a myth, had the success which one knows.