The main characters, "Three Musketeers": characteristics of the characters. Family members, relatives, friends

You discover that its main protagonists are the Three Musketeers, of course, but not only. It is impossible to miss Cardinal Richelieu and not consider Lady Winter as the heroine. Many films have been made based on this novel. Here's a poster for the last one. On it, the main characters are three musketeers (the photo shows them with their constant opponents).

Three Friends in the Service of the King

Athos, Aramis and Porthos appear far from the first pages of the novel. They are introduced to us by D'Artagnan, who has arrived in Paris to seek service from M. de Treville. They immediately show their main features: Athos - nobility, Aramis - cunning and a penchant for intrigues, Porthos - simplicity and vanity. These are the main characters - the three musketeers and their characters, which will remain unchanged on the pages of the novel.

Young DʹArtagnan

The hot temper of the young man every time makes him take his sword out of its scabbard. On the very first pages, he wants to engage in battle with an aristocrat unknown to him: he did not like the main character's old horse.

Once in Paris, D'Artagnan clumsily pushed Athos and received an invitation to a duel. Immediately he makes a new mistake: he shows everyone an elegant handkerchief with initials, which belongs to Aramis. A duel with the ignoramus is inevitable. On the stairs, he got tangled in the cloak of Mr. Porthos, and everyone saw that the shiny baldric, which all the musketeers admired, was actually made from inside of rough skin. Porthos cannot stand such an insult and challenges the provincial to a duel. This is how D'Artagnan and the main characters, the Three Musketeers, met. The duel actually did not have time to start and turned into a fight with D'Artagnan showed considerable dexterity and helped every musketeer, which earned them their trust and friendship.

D'Artagnan and his three friends

Now the young man spent all his time with his new friends, whom he did not have time to admire.

D'Artagnan, thanks to Madame Bonacieux, gets the opportunity to render a service to the queen. Clever, fearless and cunning, he managed to get to England when his friends were forced to stay in France. D'Artagnan returned to the Louvre at the last moment, and the queen was saved. After this case, he got himself a mortal enemy - Lady Winter. She will mercilessly take revenge on him, but will not be able to achieve her goal: to destroy DʹArtagnan. Our hero, together with his friends, will safely pass all its traps and remain alive. As the action develops in the novel, his luck, nobility and luck become aggravated. He is slightly mercenary, a little boastful and even sly. But these earthy features give him a lot of charm.

Athos - the ideal nobleman

Athos, Porthos and Aramis are the main characters, the three musketeers. In their world, in the first place is honor, which they never compromise. Athos is the personification of nobility and decency.

He is laconic, scrupulous, full of self-esteem and fatal secrets that the curious D'Artagnan wants to know. There is a romantic story behind it. Once he was married to a beautiful commoner. But she turned out to be a thief, branded by the executioner. Having managed to survive after the earl destroyed her, she married Lord Winter. He died shortly after his marriage to her. Rich, beautiful, quirky and unusually dexterous, she pursues D'Artagnan. The main characters, the three musketeers, just constantly interfere with her, and she wants, with the help of her patron, Cardinal Richelieu, to destroy all four friends at the same time. Athos, the most tragic of all the characters, who drowns his grief in a goblet of wine, solves the mystery of milady. Thanks to his firmness, she will be judged and executed. So the main characters, the three musketeers and their friend, will cope with the evil and duplicity that milady embodied.

Porthos and Aramis

Like Athos, they hide their high origins and romantic stories behind false names. Aramis (Chevalier dʹHerble), a noble nobleman, is weary of service and dreams of becoming an abbot. Melancholic and sad, meek and courageous, he is femininely beautiful. Aramis is not devoid of heartfelt affection. When he does not receive news for a long time from his girlfriend, Madame de Chevreuse, exiled to distant Tours, he increasingly turns to theology. Porthos (Mr. du Vallon) is a heroic man, boastful, kind and the most narrow-minded of friends. All the main characters of Dumas' Three Musketeers are people of honor, nobility and decency.

Another world

The Three Musketeers confront a world where any atrocity or infamy can be forgiven if done for the good of France. The main characters of Dumas' Three Musketeers are the sinister Cardinal Richelieu, who sets traps for everyone, and his henchwoman Milady, who eagerly performs the most difficult tasks of her patron, arouses a feeling of apprehension in the powerful cardinal.

The cardinal knows how, and in this he differs from milady, to assess the frankness and honor of the musketeers. He regrets that they serve the king and not him. He has both a deep mind and fortitude. They serve the public interest.

After the end of all the adventures, Porthos marries the rich widow Koknar, Aramis becomes the abbot. DʹArtagnan and Athos remain in the service. Then the count, having received an inheritance, retires.

The novel "The Three Musketeers" has two sequels. First, we see the heroes in 20 years, then in 10. And these are completely different stories.

In one of the main series of adventure literature, the main characters do not have personal names - only surnames or pseudonyms. There are probably several reasons. On the one hand, the background is historical, and it is difficult to fit fictional characters into it. On the other hand, the reader always likes the literary game.

But the lack of names led to unexpected problems. It hindered the development of the author's world outside of books. Let me explain with an example.

In your opinion, how did Constance address d'Artagnan? And his dad, at the beginning of the first novel? Our native television series answers these questions “d'Artagnan” and “my son”, but this is not a solution! They addressed themselves by the name given to the Gascon in childhood.

Dumas himself felt this problem. In none of the novels, without naming the Comte de la Fer by name, he assigns him a personal name in the play "based on".

Interestingly, in the novels themselves, only one of the four musketeers is named. In my opinion, in “20 years later”, Aramis is addressed by a beloved young lady, and she calls him, of course, not at all by the nickname “Aramis”.

The name of Porthos remains unknown. This means that the Dumaveds still have riddles to solve. I'm sure Dumas knew the name of Porthos!

Finally, everything is simple with the name d "Artagnan: it was present in the manuscript in the very first chapters of The Three Musketeers, but Dumas removed it from there at the request of the magazine publisher ("The Musketeers" appeared in parts in magazine publications)! Why did the publisher not like the name " Nathaniel? I have my own version.

The fact is that the name was exactly the same for another most popular adventure character who appeared on the pages of books 20 years earlier than d "Artagnan. This is the Pathfinder, he is St. John's Wort, he is also Leather Stocking, he is Hawkeye - Nathaniel Bumpo, a pioneer of the Cooper prairies Thus, Leatherstocking had priority in the name "Nathaniel".

In general, our musketeers, as of 20 years later, were actually called:
captain Nathaniel d "Artagnan
graph Olivie de la Fer
baron ??? du Vallon de Brassier de Pierrefonds
bishop Rene d "Erble

They may notice to me that in their 16th century personal names did not mean what they do now, and they could have a dozen of these names (anyway, there was one main one for domestic use), and in general - what's the difference, what was the name of the musketeers?

I repeat: the reader loves literary games, loves riddles. Remember this when you are going to call the hero Jack or Valera in your work.

(From the comments I found out that an explanation is needed. We are talking about names literary characters, and not about the names of real historical persons who allegedly served as prototypes for the musketeers. From my point of view, only d'Artagnan had a prototype.)

character in The Three Musketeers

Comte de la Fere

Musketeer most affected by Milady Winter

The famous role of Smekhov

The ex-husband of Lady Winter from the novel by A. Dumas "The Three Musketeers"

Model "Hyundai"

Only with this, one of his friends, D'Artagnan crossed swords

The character of the operetta G. A. Portnova "Friends in the binder"

Stepfather of the Viscount de Bragelonne

Count among Musketeers

Grimaud was his servant

The most mysterious of the Musketeers

The Comte de la Fère as a Musketeer

Smekhov like a musketeer

Friend of d'Artagnan

One of the "Three Musketeers" A. Dumas

The character of the novel by the French writer A. Dumas "Three Musketeers"

Earl of iron

Elder of the Musketeers

Musketeer, milady's husband

Comte de la Fere

Milady's first husband

Musketeer of Count bloodlines

Musketeer

Phlegmatic Musketeer

One of the Musketeers

Sullen Musketeer

Musketeer, Raul's father

Milady Winter's Husband

noble musketeer

Comte de La Fere (lit.)

Musketeer with servant Grimaud

Porthos, Aramis

Musketeer injured by Milady

Friend of Porthos and Aramis

The most mysterious Musketeer

Musketeer with the face of Smekhov

Musketeer Smekhova

Count with a sword

Grafmusketeer

Ex-husband of Milady

Guards role of Smekhov

One of the three musketeers

One of de Treville's favorites

Count in a musketeer's cloak

There is a black pond in his park

Father of the Viscount de Bragelonne

Musketeer Veniamin Smekhov

One of d'Artagnan's three friends

Titled Musketeer

Musketeer with title

Titled friend of d'Artagnan

Husband of Lady Winter

Count of Musketeers

Friend of Porthos

Gloomy Musketeer

Milady loved and then killed

Titled friend of Porthos

Count, friend of Porthos

Musketeer from Dumas

One of the three musketeers

Olivier de la Fere

Musketeer in rhyme to Porthos

Aramis sidekick

Sidekick of Aramis and Porthos

Sad Musketeer

Musketeer role of Smekhov

The character of the novel by A. Dumas "Three Musketeers"

Hero of the works of A. Dumas

List of characters in novels about d'Artagnan

Partially or wholly fictional characters

1. Count Rochefort. Dedicated assistant to the cardinal. Probably has a real historical prototype. In the first book, he appears as the sworn enemy of d'Artagnan. Twenty years later - the closest and, at times, the only friend of d'Artagnan (after the rest of the musketeers left the service and left Paris in all directions).

Musketeers

1. D'Artagnan(Mr. d'Artagnan-son), pseudonym artagnan- Musketeer, historical figure. Dumas used individual motifs from the real career of d'Artagnan (participation in the Fouquet process, death during the siege of Maastricht).
2. Athos(Comte de La Fere) - musketeer; the character is fictional by Dumas using the name of a real historical person - Armand de Silleg d'Athos d'Otevielle.
3. Porthos(Baron du Vallon) - musketeer; the character is fictional Dumas using the name of a real historical person - Isaac de Porto.
4. Aramis(Chevalier d'Herble) - musketeer, later abbot and general of the Jesuit order. The character was invented by Dumas partly on the basis of a real historical person - Henri d'Aramitz.

Servants of the Musketeers

1. Planchet. Servant of d'Artagnan, a cheerful Parisian; in the novel "Twenty Years Later" - a venerable bourgeois who takes part in the events of the Fronde and again becomes an assistant to the musketeers.
2. Grimaud. Servant of Athos. Differs in extreme silence and restraint, speaks in monosyllables. In the novel Twenty Years Later, Athos arranges him as a servant in the fortress where the Duke de Beaufort is kept: Grimaud facilitates his escape.
3. Bazin. Servant of Aramis. Pious, like his master, later becomes a cleric.
4. Blunderbuss. Footman of Porthos, who later renamed himself Muston.

Family members, relatives, friends

1. Constance Bonacier. Wife of the haberdasher Bonacieux and mistress of d'Artagnan. Milady poisoned in the Carmelite convent. It was she who found d'Artagnan for the role of the queen's messenger for pendants to Buckingham.
2. Viscount Raoul de Bragelonne- son of Athos and Duchess de Chevreuse. Raised by his father. He first appears in the novel "Twenty Years Later": there he enters the military service and is partly embroiled in court intrigues. One of the main characters in the novel Vicomte de Bragelon, or Ten Years After. Love for Louise Lavalier leads him to a tragic end.
3. Mrs. Koknar- widow, patroness, then wife of Porthos
4. Madeleine- hostess of the hotel, Flemish; mistress of d'Artagnan in the novel Twenty Years Later.
5. katty. The girl seduced by d'Artagnan. Milady's maid.

villains

1. Milady. She's Anna de Bailey, she's Lady Clarick, she's Baroness Sheffield, she's Charlotte Baxon, she's Countess de La Fere, she's Countess Winter. The cardinal's spy. Former wife of the Comte de La Fere.
2. Mr. Bonacieux- Husband of Constance Bonacieux, tradesman. At the end of The Three Musketeers, he disappears - apparently, as the author hints, Richelieu sent him to prison for knowing too much. In the novel Twenty Years Later, Bonacieux appears in the guise of a beggar who helps Count Rochefort to rebel the people of Paris against the queen. At the end of the novel, Porthos accidentally kills him.
3. Mordaunt- the son of Milady, one of the heroes of the novel "Twenty Years Later".
4. de Wardes- a nobleman whom Cardinal de Richelieu sent to England, and d'Artagnan wounded after refusing to voluntarily give him permission from the cardinal to go to sea.
5. Viscount de Wardes- son of de Wardes.

historical persons

royalty

1. king of France Louis XIII- acts in the novel "The Three Musketeers".
2. king of France Louis XIV- acts in the novels "Twenty Years Later" and "Ten Years Later". In the novel "Twenty Years Later" he is still a child, but Dumas emphasizes his independence, self-esteem and emerging hostility to Cardinal Mazarin. Louis is one of the main characters of the novel "Ten Years Later": the love affairs of the king, his passion for de La Vallière, who is loved by the son of Athos, the viscount de Bragelon, is one of the main plots of the book.
3. Queen Anne of Austria of France, wife of Louis XIII and mother of Louis XIV, acts in all three novels of the cycle. Dumas, on the one hand, paints the queen in a positive light: she is beautiful, noble, full of self-respect. At the same time, she is frivolous and ungrateful; an affair with Cardinal Mazarin, according to Dumas, humiliates Anna's royal dignity.
4. King of England Charles I is one of the characters in the novel "Twenty Years Later". The Musketeers are trying to save the king from execution on behalf of his wife, Queen Henrietta, but their mission is unsuccessful.
5. His son King of England Charles II with the help of the Musketeers, he regains the throne in the novel Ten Years Later.

Ministers of the Church

1. Cardinal Richelieu- acts in the novel "The Three Musketeers", is one of the main negative characters there.
2. Cardinal Mazarin- Acts in the novel "Twenty Years Later"; favorite and secret husband of Anne of Austria. Dumas considers him just a "shadow of the all-powerful cardinal" Richelieu; through the lips of heroes, he repeatedly ridicules the greed and pettiness of Mazarin. In the novel Ten Years Later, Mazarin dies: this frees Louis XIV the path to absolute power.
3. Coadjutor(Cardinal Retz) - an opponent of Mazarin, one of the participants in the Fronde. In the novel "Twenty Years Later" he is shown as one of the organizers of the speeches against Mazarin.

French aristocracy and courtiers

1. De Treville- chief of the musketeers.
2. la port- valet to Queen Anne of Austria
3. Duchess de Chevreuse- court lady; Dumas has a beloved Aramis, appears in all three novels of the cycle. The Vicomte de Bragelonne is her son, whom she partly patronizes.
4. Duke de Beaufort - Featured in "Twenty Years Later" and "Vicomte de Bragelone". In the novel Twenty Years Later, Athos' servant, Grimaud, helps the duke escape the Château de Vincennes and take part in the Fronde.
5. Louise Lavalier- mistress of Louis XIV. Dumas appears in the novel "Twenty Years Later": here she is a little girl with whom the young Viscount de Bragelon is in love. In the novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne, or Ten Years Later, Louise finds herself at court: she sincerely falls in love with Louis XIV, which drives de Bragelonne to despair. At the end of the book, the tragic fate of Lavaliere is shown: she is left by the king and alone.

English

1. Villiers, George, 1st Duke of Buckingham- An English statesman, beloved of Queen Anne of Austria in the novel The Three Musketeers.
2. John Felton- murderer of the Duke of Buckingham; Dumas is depicted as a strict puritan who is entrusted with protecting Milady. Milady tells him a fictitious story that the duke allegedly pursued her, which is why Felton decides to kill Buckingham.
3. Lord Winter- Milady's brother-in-law.