Thursday, July 06, 2006

D'Artagnan..waaaay after the fact

Just struck me, as the song came up in my random shuffle, that D'Artagnan was the main character in The Three Musketeers (a movie I saw, I think, after our original comments on Themeless, The New Black). I went back and checked out our comments. It appears that Mixdorf had already discovered the connection.

This is just a factual correction, then. Mixdorf mentions that D'Artagnan "was the principle character of The Three Musketeers, but not an actual musketeer himself." On the contrary, in both the fictionalized account and in real history, D'Artagnan was, in fact, very much a Musketeer-their captain, even.

1 Comments:

At 4:46 AM, Blogger Pat said...

According to what I read, he was on his way to BECOME an official musketeer (a part of the French military) when he joined the Three Musketeers, making them four. They were no longer actual members of the French military, and in fact were working against it.

That was what I meant.

 

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