The main characters, “The Three Musketeers”: characteristics of the characters. Family members, relatives, acquaintances

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

Three friends in the service of the king

Athos, Aramis and Porthos do not appear on the first pages of the novel. They are introduced to us by D'Artagnan, who arrived in Paris to seek service with Monsieur de Treville. They immediately show their main traits: Athos - nobility, Aramis - cunning and a penchant for intrigue, Porthos - innocence and vanity. These are the main characters - the three musketeers and their characters, which will remain unchanged in the pages of the novel.

Young D'Artagnan

The young man’s hot temper makes him take his sword out of its sheath every time. On the very first pages, he wants to enter into battle with an aristocrat unknown to him: he did not like the protagonist’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 lady's handkerchief with initials, which belongs to Aramis. A duel with an ignoramus is inevitable. On the stairs he became entangled in Monsieur Porthos's cloak, and everyone saw that the shiny baldric, which all the musketeers admired, was actually made of rough leather on the inside. Porthos cannot tolerate 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 begin and developed into a fight with D'Artagnan showing considerable dexterity and helping each musketeer, thereby earning 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 provide a service to the queen. Smart, fearless and cunning, he managed to get to England when the friends accompanying him were forced to linger in France. D'Artagnan returned to the Louvre at the last moment, and the queen was saved. After this case, he received a mortal enemy - Lady Winter. She will take revenge on him mercilessly, but will not be able to achieve her goal: to destroy D'Artagnan. Our hero, together with his friends, will safely pass all her traps and remain alive. As the action in the novel progresses, his luck, nobility and luck become more intense. He is a little selfish, a little boastful and even crafty. But these earthly 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, honor comes first, which they never compromise. Athos is the personification of nobility and decency.

He is taciturn, scrupulous, full of self-esteem and fatal secrets that the curious D'Artagnan wants to know. There is a romantic story behind it. He was once married to a beautiful commoner. But she turned out to be a thief who was branded by the executioner. Managing to survive after being destroyed by the Count, she married Lord Winter. He died soon after his marriage to her. Rich, beautiful, resourceful and unusually dexterous, she pursues D'Artagnan. The main characters, the three musketeers, simply constantly disturb 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 characters, who drowns his grief in a goblet of wine, unravels Milady's secret. Thanks to his firmness, she will be convicted and executed. This is how the main characters, the three musketeers and their friend, will cope with the evil and duplicity that Milady embodied.

Porthos and Aramis

Just like Athos, they hide their high origins and romantic stories behind fictitious names. Aramis (Chevalier d'Herblay), a noble nobleman, is burdened by service and dreams of becoming an abbot. Melancholy and sad, meek and brave, he is femininely beautiful. Aramis is not without heartfelt affection. When he does not receive news from his girlfriend, Madame de Chevreuse, exiled to distant Tours for a long time, he increasingly turns to theology. Porthos (Mister du Vallon) is a heroic man, boastful, kind and the most narrow-minded of friends. All the main characters of Dumas' "The Three Musketeers" are people of honor, nobility and decency.

Another world

The Three Musketeers confront a world where any crime or heinousness can be forgiven if it is done for the good of France. The main characters of Dumas's "The Three Musketeers" are the sinister Cardinal Richelieu, who sets traps for everyone, and his henchwoman Milady, who eagerly carries out the most difficult tasks of her patron, arouses a sense of fear in the powerful cardinal.

The Cardinal knows how, and in this he differs from Milady, to evaluate the integrity 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 state interests.

After all the adventures are over, Porthos marries the rich widow Coknard, Aramis becomes abbot. D'Artagnan and Athos remain in service. Then the count, having received an inheritance, retires.

The novel "The Three Musketeers" has two sequels. First we see the heroes after 20 years, then after 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 a 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 with “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 sensed this problem. Without calling the Comte de la Fer by name in any of the novels, he assigns him a personal name in the play “based on it.”

It is interesting that in the novels themselves, of the four musketeers, only one is named. In my opinion, in “20 Years Later,” Aramis is addressed by his beloved young lady, and she naturally does not call him by the nickname “Aramis.”

Porthos' name remains unknown. This means that the Dumavedians still have mysteries to solve. I'm sure Dumas knew Porthos's name!

Finally, with the name d'Artagnan, everything is simple: 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 were published in parts in magazine publications)! Why did the publisher not like the name " Nathaniel"? I have my own version.

The fact is that the same name was given to another popular adventure character who appeared on the pages of books 20 years earlier than d'Artagnan. This is Pathfinder, aka St. John's Wort, aka Leather Stocking, aka Hawkeye - Nathaniel Bumppo, pioneer of Cooper's 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'Herblay

They may point out to me that in their 16th century personal names did not mean what they mean now, and they could have had a dozen of these names (all the same, there was one main one for everyday use), and in general - what difference does it make what the musketeers were called?

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

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

character from the novel "The Three Musketeers"

Count De la Fère

The Musketeer who suffered the most from Milady Winter

The famous role of Smekhov

Former husband of Lady Winter from A. Dumas' novel "The Three Musketeers"

Model "Hyundai"

Only with this one of his friends did D'Artagnan cross swords

A character from G. A. Portnov’s operetta “Friends in Binding”

Stepfather of the Viscount de Bragelonne

Count among the Musketeers

His servant was Grimaud

The most mysterious of the musketeers

Comte de la Fère as a musketeer

Laughter like a musketeer

D'Artagnan's friend

One of the "Three Musketeers" by A. Dumas

Character in the novel by the French writer A. Dumas “The Three Musketeers”

Iron Count

Elder of the Musketeers

Musketeer, my lady's husband

Count de la Fère

Milady's first husband

Musketeer of count blood

Musketeer

Phlegmatic Musketeer

One of the Musketeers

The Gloomy Musketeer

Musketeer, Raoul's father

Milady Winter's husband

Noble Musketeer

Comte de La Fère (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

Countmusketeer

Milady's ex-husband

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 Smekhova

One of D'Artagnan's Three Friends

Titled musketeer

Musketeer with title

Titled friend of d'Artagnan

Lady Winter's husband

Count of the Musketeers

Porthos' friend

The Gloomy Musketeer

Milady loved and then killed

Titled friend of Porthos

Count, friend of Porthos

Musketeer from the novel by Dumas

One of the Three Musketeers

Olivier de la Fere

Musketeer in rhyme to Porthos

Aramis' sidekick

Sidekick of Aramis and Porthos

The sad musketeer

Musketeer role of Smekhov

Character from A. Dumas' novel "The Three Musketeers"

The hero of the works of A. Dumas

List of characters in novels about d'Artagnan

Partially or completely fictional characters

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

Musketeers

1. D'Artagnan(Monsieur d'Artagnan-son), pseudonym Artagnan- musketeer, historical figure. Dumas used individual motifs from d’Artagnan’s real career (participation in the Fouquet trial, death during the siege of Maastricht).
2. Athos(Count de La Fere) - musketeer; the character is fictionalized by Dumas using the name of a real historical person - Armand de Cilleg d'Athos d'Autevielle.
3. Porthos(Baron du Vallon) - musketeer; the character is fictionalized by Dumas using the name of a real historical figure - Isaac de Porto.
4. Aramis(Chevalier d'Herblay) - musketeer, later abbot and general of the Jesuit order. The character was invented by Dumas partly based on a real historical figure - Henri d'Aramitz.

Servants of the Musketeers

1. Planchet. D'Artagnan's servant, a cheerful Parisian; in the novel “Twenty Years Later” - a respectable bourgeois who takes part in the events of the Fronde and again becomes an assistant to the musketeers.
2. Grimaud. Servant of Athos. He is distinguished by extreme silence and restraint, speaks in monosyllables. In the novel “Twenty Years Later,” Athos arranges for him to become 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. Lackey of Porthos, who later renamed himself Mouston.

Family members, relatives, acquaintances

1. Constance Bonacieux. Wife of haberdasher Bonacieux and mistress of d'Artagnan. Milady was poisoned in the Carmelite monastery. It was she who found d'Artagnan for the role of the queen's messenger for the 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 military service and partly finds himself drawn into court intrigues. One of the main characters of the novel “The Vicomte de Bragelonne, or Ten Years After.” His love for Louise Lavalliere leads him to a tragic end.
3. Madame Coquenard- widow, patroness, then wife of Porthos
4. Madeleine- innkeeper, Flemish; d'Artagnan's mistress in the novel Twenty Years Later.
5. Katie. The girl seduced by d'Artagnan. Milady's maid.

Villains

1. Milady. She is Anna de Bayle, she is Lady Clarik, she is Baroness Sheffield, she is Charlotte Buckson, she is Countess de La Fère, she is Countess Winter. The cardinal's spy. Former wife of the Comte de La Fère.
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 Parisian people against the queen. At the end of the novel, Porthos accidentally kills him.
3. Mordaunt- 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 figures

Reigning persons

1. King Louis XIII of France- acts in the novel “The Three Musketeers”.
2. King Louis XIV of France- 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 nascent hostility towards Cardinal Mazarin. Louis is one of the main characters in the novel “Ten Years Later”: the king’s love affairs, his infatuation with de La Valliere, who is loved by Athos’ son, Viscount de Bragelonne, 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, appears in all three novels of the series. Dumas, on the one hand, paints the queen in a positive light: she is beautiful, noble, full of self-esteem. At the same time, she is frivolous and ungrateful; an affair with Cardinal Mazarin, according to Dumas, humiliates Anna's royal dignity.
4. King Charles I of England 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 Charles II of England with the help of the musketeers, he regains the throne in the novel “Ten Years Later.”

Servants 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 the heroes, he repeatedly ridicules the greed and pettiness of Mazarin. In the novel Ten Years Later, Mazarin dies: this clears the path for Louis XIV to absolute power.
3. Coadjutor(Cardinal Retz) - 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 protests against Mazarin.

French aristocracy and courtiers

1. De Treville- Chief of the Musketeers.
2. La Porte- Valet to Queen Anne of Austria
3. Duchess de Chevreuse- court lady; in Dumas - Aramis's beloved, appears in all three novels of the cycle. Viscount de Bragelonne is her son, whom she partially patronizes.
4. Duke de Beaufort - appears in "Twenty Years After" and "The Vicomte de Bragelonne". In the novel Twenty Years Later, Athos's servant, Grimaud, helps the Duke escape from the Castle of Vincennes and take part in the Fronde.
5. Louise Lavaliere- favorite of Louis XIV. Dumas appears in the novel “Twenty Years Later”: here she is a little girl with whom the young Viscount de Bragelonne is in love. In the novel “The Vicomte de Bragelonne, or Ten Years After,” Louise finds herself at court: she sincerely falls in love with Louis XIV, which leads de Bragelonne to despair. At the end of the book, Lavaliere’s tragic fate is shown: she is abandoned by the king and alone.

English

1. Villiers, George, 1st Duke of Buckingham- English statesman, lover of Queen Anne of Austria in the novel The Three Musketeers.
2. John Felton- murderer of the Duke of Buckingham; Dumas depicts him as a strict puritan, tasked with protecting Milady. Milady tells him a fictitious story that the Duke was allegedly pursuing her, and that is why Felton decides to kill Buckingham.
3. Lord Winter- Milady's brother-in-law.