The portrait Alexandre Dumas paints of d'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers is iconic: a penniless young Gascon who sets off for Paris to join the elite guard known as the King's Musketeers. But, how true is it? All For One: The Life of D'Artagnan explores the career and the character of Charles deBatz-Castelmore, the Comte d'Artagnan -- the man behind Dumas' myth. His was a life of swashbuckling intrigue and unswerving loyalty in service to France's greatest monarch, the Sun-King, Louis XIV.
The portrait Alexandre Dumas paints of d'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers is iconic: a penniless young Gascon who sets off for Paris to join the elite guard known as the King's Musketeers. But, how true is it? All For One: The Life of D'Artagnan explores the career and the character of Charles deBatz-Castelmore, the Comte d'Artagnan -- the man behind Dumas' myth. His was a life of swashbuckling intrigue and unswerving loyalty in service to France's greatest monarch, the Sun-King, Louis XIV.