FROM FICTION TO REAL LIFE: The Tomb of 17th Century French Military Leader D’Artagnan, Immortalized in Alexandre Dumas’ ‘The Three Musketeers’, May Have Been Found in Dutch Church

D’Artagnan in an old book illustration, and in a Parisian statue – Wiki Commons

A resting place for a real hero immortalized in literature.

Even people like me, who love Alexandre Dumas’ serialized masterpiece ‘The Three Musketeers’, may not be aware that the young hero D’Artagnan was based on a real person, Charles de Batz de Castelmore.

Later known as Count D’Artagnan, Charles was a French military leader who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard.

He was immortalized in the books...