I could not get to the computer to blog yesterday as the Guv seemed to be about all day! So I'm a day late in telling you about the famous person who was born there. Charles de Batz de Castelmore, Captain Lieutenant of the Musketeers of Louis XIV better known as d'Artagnan.
The real d'Artagnan's life was used as the basis for Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras' novel Les mémoires de M. d'Artagnan. Alexandre Dumas in turn used Sandras' novel as the main source for his d'Artagnan Romances (The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne), which cover d'Artagnan's career from his humble beginnings in Gascony to his death at Maastricht. Although Dumas knew that Sandras's version was heavily fictionalised, in the preface to The Three Musketeers he affected to believe that the memoirs were real, in order to make his novel more believable.
Castle of d'Artagnan
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