Charles de Batz de Castelmore, also known as d'Artagnan and later Count d'Artagnan, was a French soldier who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard. He died at the siege of Maastri
Illustration from Courtilz de Sandras' novel Les mémoires de M. d'Artagnan.
Château de Castelmore
Statue of d'Artagnan in Maastricht
St Peter and Paul Church altar, where d’Artagnan may have been buried
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The Three Musketeers is a French historical adventure novel written and published in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is the first of the author's three d'Artagnan Romances. As with some of h
Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan
…fictionalised 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 (1844). The heavily fictionalised version of d'Artagnan featured in Dumas' works and their subsequent screen adaptations is now far more widely known…
D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos (1894)
A Musketeer of the Guard c. 1660.
Depiction of the Cardinal's musketeers, the great rivals of the King's musketeers
The Three Musketeers Longmans' Simplified English Series 1960