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Right now, we are reading The Three Musketeers.
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Today we'll be talking about the person who inspired the character of D'Artagnan, Charles de Batz de Castlemore, also known as D'Artagnan and later Count D'Artagnan to June 25, 1673, was a French musketeer who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard.
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He died at the Siege of Mastrike in the Franco Dutch War.
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A fictionalized account of his life by Geetienne de Cortez de Sandras forms the basis for the D'Artagnan romances of Alexandra Dumas Pierre, most famously including The Three Musketeers.
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The heavily fictionalized version of D'Artagnan featured in Dumas's works and their subsequent screen adaptations is now far more widely known than the real historical figure.
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D'artagnan was born at the Chateau de Castlemore near Lupiac in southwestern France.
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His father, Bertrand de Batz, Lord of Castlemore, was the son of a newly ennobled merchant, Arnold Debates, who purchased the Chateau de Castlemore.
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Charles de Batz went to Paris in the 1630s using the name of his mother, Francois de Monsixu D'Artagnan.
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D'artagnan found a way to enter into the Musketeers in 1632 through the support of his uncle, Henry de Muscadeu D'Artagnan, or perhaps thanks to the influence of Henry's friend, Monsieur de Traville, Jean Armand du Pierre Kant des Troisville D'Artagnan joined the Guards in the mid 1630s and served under Captain Desasarts.
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The Regiment saw much action in the early 1640s, taking part in sieges in Eris, Eris, Sula, Lis, La BESE, and Bamard in 1642 41 and Colacur and Papya in 1642.
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Whether or not D'Artagnan was personally involved is unclear, but it is likely he took part in some, if not all, of these sieges.
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While in the Musketeers, D'Artagnan sought the protection of the influential Cardinal Mazarin Francis, principal Minister since 1643.
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In 1646, the Musketeers Company was dissolved, but D'Artagnan continued to serve his protector, Mazarin.
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D'artagnan had a career in espionage for Cardinal Mazarin in the years after the first frond due to D'Artagnan's faithful service.
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During this period, Louis XIV entrusted him with many secret and delicate situations that required complete discretion.
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He followed Mazarin during his exile in 1651 in the face of the hostility of the aristocracy.
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In 1652, D'Artagnan was promoted to Lieutenant in the Guards Francis and fought in the Battle of Stone in 1654, as well as in sieges at Landrusty's and St.
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Joseph Lane, then the captain in 1655.
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In 1658 he became a second Lieutenant in the newly reformed Musketeers.
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This was a promotion, as the Musketeers were far more prestigious than the Garde Francis D'Artagnan was famous for his connection with the arrest of Nicholas Fouquet.
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Fouquet was Louis the 14th finance Commissioner and aspired to take the place of Mazarin as the King's adviser.
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Fouquet was also a lover of grand architecture and employed the greatest architects and artisans in the building of his Chateau, Vaux le Vicomte.
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He celebrated the completion with the most extravagant feast, at which every guest was given a horse.
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The King, however, felt upstaged by the grandeur of the home and event and suspecting that such magnificence could only be explained through Fouquet's pilfering the Royal Treasury.
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Three weeks later had D'Artagnan arrest Fouquet to prevent his escape by bribery.
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D'artagnan was assigned to guard him for four years until Fouquet was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1667.
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D'artagnan was promoted to captain, Lieutenant of the Musketeers.
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The effective commander, as the nominal captain was the King.
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As besetting his rank and position.
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He could be identified by his striking Burgundy, white and black livery, the colors of the commanding officer of the Musketeers.
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Another of D'Artagnan's assignments was the governorship of Lill, which was won in battle by France in D'Artagnan was an unpopular governor and longed to return to battle.
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He found his chance when Louis XIV went to war with the Dutch Republic in the Franco Dutch War.
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After being recalled to service.
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D'artagnan was subsequently killed in battle on June 25, 1673, when a musket ball tore into his throat at the Siege of Maastricht.
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The French historian O'delle Bordeaux believes that he was buried in St.
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Peter and Paul Church in Woolder, the Netherlands.
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In contrast, the archaeologist Wim Dingchmann, curator of Mastrick, of which Walter is a district, says that there is no historical or archeological evidence of the claim.
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D'artagnan married on March 5, 1659, and Charlotte Boyer Ditch Linsey, lady of Saint Claude, born in 1624, daughter of Charles Boyer, Lord of Chanely and Saint Clois, and of Claude de Ryman, lady of La Rochette, widow of Jean Eleanor de Damas.
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But quickly the couple did not live together anymore.
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D'artagnan preferred the battlefields, and his wife left Paris and lived on his land of Saint quois, where she died on December 31, 683.
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They had two children, Louis the elder, born in 1660, and Louis the Younger, born on July 4, 1661 in Chalonsir Seyon.
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They both became military.
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The real D'Artagnan's life was used as the basis for Gatien de Cuerlitz de Sandra's novel Le Mumois de Monsieur D'Artagnan.
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Alexander, Adumas and Heron used Sandra's novel as the main source for his D Artagnan romances, The Three Musketeers 20 Years after, and the Vai Compte de Braglon, which covered D'Artagnan's career from his humble beginnings in Gascony to his death at Maastricht.
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Although Doumas knew that Sandra's version was heavily fictionalized in the preface of The Three Musketeers, he affected to believe that the memoirs were real in order to make his novel more believable.
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D'artagnan is initially portrayed by Dumas as a hotheaded youth who tries to engage the Count de Roccafort and the Three Musketeers Athos Porthos and Aramis in single combat.
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He quickly becomes friends with the Musketeers and has a series of adventures which put him at odds with Cardinal Rishelu, then first Minister of France.
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In the end, Rishalu is impressed by D'Artagnan and makes him a Lieutenant of the Musketeers.
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This begins his long career of military service as detailed in the sequels.
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D'artagnan's role among the Musketeers is one of leadership, whose skills and brains impress the Musketeers greatly, but he is also regarded as a sort of protege, given his youth and inexperience, ATO sees him not only as a best friend and fellow Musketeer, but merely as a son.
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At the end of the series, his death at the Siege of Maastricht is given an extra tragic twist.
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He is mortally wounded.
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While reading the notice of his promotion to the highest military rank, Alexander Buskov published a novel, D'Artagnan A Guard of the Cardinal.
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Some scholars believe aspects of D'Artagnan are drawn from the life and character of Dumas's mixedrace father, General Thomas Alexandra Dumas.
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The incident when D'Artagnan challenges Porthos, Athos and Aramis to duels on the same afternoon might be based on an incident in General Dumas's youth when he was insulted and their subsequent friendship on General Dumas youthful companionship with fellow soldiers in the Queen's Dragoons.
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D'artagnan's life was also an inspiration for many other characters and other works, including other novels, history books and video games.
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His life is also portrayed in film and television, including adaptations of The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask.
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