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Charles e Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan (c. Lupiac 1611 - 25 June, Maastricht 1673) served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard and died at the Siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War. A fictionalized account of his life by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras formed the basis for the d'Artagnan Romances of Alexandre Dumas, most famously including The Three Musketeers.

Trivia about d'artagnan

  • This Dumas hero who left home at age 16 to be a Musketeer was based on a real person
  • At age 18 in 1625 he set out from Gascony to join the king's musketeers
  • In Dumas' "The Three Musketeers", this character commits himself to 3 consecutive duels with Athos, Porthos & Aramis
  • Sometimes 3's not enough of a crowd! Here's hoping for that promotion for this 1844 guy from Gascony!
  • This central character of "The Three Musketeers" was a real person; much of the material is drawn from his memoirs

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