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Charles Ogier de Batz de Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan (c. 1611 Lupiac - 25 June, 1673 Maastricht) served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard and died at the Siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War. A fictionalized account of his life by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras formed the basis for the d'Artagnan Romances of Alexandre Dumas, most famously including The Three Musketeers.
Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan in 1632[]
Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan was still a young twenty-year-old when Grantville arrived. Cardinal Richelieu, being aware of The Three Musketeers through novels and films smuggled out of Grantville, elevated the unsuspecting d'Artagnan into captain of the Musketeers of the Guard.