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D'Artagnan:
Charles de Batz-Castlemore, sieur d'Artagnan, was born in
Tarbes around 1615.
He joined Richelieu's Guards in 1635 and then the
musketeers in 1644. During the years 1646-1657, when the musketeers
were disbanded in actual history, Mazarin used him as a courier. He was
appointed second-in-command to the absentee Captain-Lieutenant of the
musketeers (a nephew of Mazarin's who had no interest in the work) in
1657, when the company was reformed. Although he only held the rank of
Lieutenant, he was the actual commander of the troops. He married in
1659, had two sons, and separated from his wife in 1665. It was indeed
the real D'Artagnan who, in 1661, arrested Fouquet, though not nearly as
dramatically as Dumas's depiction, and escorted him first to Angers, and
later, after the former minister's trial, to Pignerol. He became Captain-
Lieutenant of the musketeers in 1667, in other words, the commander of
the musketeers, as the rank of Captain-General was reserved for the king
himself. During Louis's invasion of the Dutch Republic, he was briefly
governor of Lille in 1672. He was killed at the siege of Maastricht in
March of 1673. From his few surviving documents, he appears to have been
rather an unimaginative soldier with a great respect for authority. He
never lost his Gascon accent, which is detectable even in his letters.
His spelling was atrocious even by the standards of the time. Dumas
bases his character largely on his own imagination and from another
fictional work from 1700 entitled The Memoirs of M. d'Artagnan by
Courtilz de Sandras, from which he got the basis for the first few
chapters of The Three Musketeers. Dumas never, however, read beyond the
first volume of Sandras's work, and vastly altered the material he did
read, making it uniquely his own. The character of Milady also comes
from Sandras's writings, wherein D'Artagnan encounters a mysterious
English noblewoman known only as Miledi.