xenocratus2d ago

Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2rew2dgzzo

Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church

D'Artagnan was killed during the Siege of Maastricht in 1673 and later immortalised in the stories of Alexandre Dumas.

BBC News
Show threadbrightball2d ago

Hold on…that was an entirely fictional story?

Is there some part of it that was based on real people?

Show threadbena2d ago

Same here. I thought it was completely fictional.

So, I immediately looked it up. There was a real d'Artagnan, he was kind of a big deal, so Dumas wrote some stories based on a fictionalized version of the real d'Artagnan.

Show threadbigstrat2003
Wow, that's really cool. I knew that Cardinal Richelieu was a real person (and that he is credited with inventing the butter knife!), but I didn't realize there were others.
Mar 25 at 5:33pmWeb
Show threadfusslo2d ago

D'Artagnan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Batz_de_Castelmore_...

Cardinal Mazarin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Mazarin

Athos - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_d%27Athos

Porthos - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_de_Porthau

Aramis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_d%27Aramitz

All highly fictionalized and I have had trouble finding information on the real counterparts (aside from the Cardinal). I started learning about that period of history after listening to the D'Artagnan Romances in audiobook form.

Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan - Wikipedia

Show threadkergonath2d ago

> I knew that Cardinal Richelieu was a real person

And he was more than a big deal. One of the most powerful people in Europe at the time.