Blind MapmakerHave your #WeirdNews for the day:
Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church
TrifoliumA literary note:
“The Three Musketeers” by Alexandre Dumas Sr. and Auguste Maquet surely is well known to many. Maybe a bit less well remembered is the fact, that the novel series continues with several works on the d'Artagnan Romances. The last part of the series is Alexandre Dumas’s “The Man in the Iron Mask”, where in the very end the Captain of the King’s Musketeers d'Artagnan becomes Marechal of France, but also dies.
The letter about the last promotion plus a coffret or a coffer containing the Marechal’s baton are brought by a courier into middle of a battle:
“D’Artagnan was holding out his hand to open the _coffret_, when a ball from the city crushed the _coffret_ in the arms of the officer, struck D’Artagnan full in the chest, and knocked him down upon a sloping heap of earth, whilst the _fleur-de-lised baton_, escaping from the broken box, came rolling under the powerless hand of the _marechal_.”