D’Artagnan

fictional character
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D’Artagnan, a protagonist of The Three Musketeers (published 1844, performed 1845) by Alexandre Dumas père. The character was based on a real person who had served as a captain of the musketeers under Louis XIV, but Dumas’s account of this young, impressionable, swashbuckling hero must be regarded as primarily fiction.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.