Who hasn’t heard of the adventures of this blue-robed musketeer immortalized by Alexandre Dumas? To discover this flamboyant character, Stéphane Bern began his search in the Gers section of the chateau where d’Artagnan was born at the beginning of the 17th century. How did this native Gascon manage to join the prestigious group of musketeers, this elite unit where he would meet his lifelong friends Atos, Portos and Aramis?
in good company
Charles de Batz de Castelmore, named after his mother d’Artagnan, was not 20 years old when he arrived in Paris in 1630 (his birth is estimated to be between 1611 and 1613). He first joined the Compagnie des Essarts, a regiment in Paris that provided police.
a life of violence
” One for all, all for one belongs to the novel. real currency, “Where musketeers pass, death comes”proclaimed the barbarism of men trained in war. Promoted in 1670, lieutenant-captain d’Artagnan suppressed Roure’s revolt in blood against financial pressures.
for His Majesty
If he was not a good husband (he sent his wife Anne-Charlotte de Champlecy back to Burgundy), d’Artagnan was Mazarin’s confidant and spy during his regency (1643-1648), protecting Anne of Austria and her son. XIV, the future King, to whom he is very attached. He was a sixty-year-old d’Artagnan who fought alongside his ruler during the siege of Maastricht, where he was killed in 1673.
Secrets of History: d’Artagnan, the musketeer of the Sun King, Wednesday 12 April at 21:10 in France 3
ISABEL MAGNIER
Source: Programme Television
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