The three musketeers characters

D'Artagnan

Also known as the Gascon, the young man, the boy

A hot-headed and brave young Gascon who travels to Paris to join the King's Musketeers. He forms an inseparable bond with Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.

As drawn: A lean, wiry youth of eighteen with a long brown face, high cheekbones and strongly developed jaw muscles, an open intelligent eye and a hooked but finely chiselled nose; wears a woollen doublet whose blue has faded to a nameless shade, and a cap set off with a feather.

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Athos

Also known as the old man, the melancholy

A senior Musketeer and a mentor figure to D'Artagnan, characterized by his nobility, melancholy, and mysterious past. He is the most composed and dignified of the four friends.

As drawn: A nobleman of scarcely thirty, of great personal beauty and grave bearing, his reserve and silence lending him the air of a far older man; dressed in the irreproachable costume of a king's Musketeer.

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Porthos

Also known as the fat, the strong man

A large, boisterous, and jovial Musketeer who loves fine clothing and displays immense physical strength. He provides much of the group's comic relief and bravado.

As drawn: A man of lofty stature and evident strength, with a ruddy countenance and a loud, confident bearing, wearing the military dress of a Musketeer with conspicuous display.

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Aramis

Also known as the Abbé, the priest

A Musketeer who is torn between his military life and his desire to enter the priesthood. He is sophisticated, subtle, and often involved in romantic intrigues.

As drawn: A stout young man of two or three and twenty with an open, ingenuous countenance, a black, mild eye, and cheeks rosy and downy as an autumn peach; a delicate moustache marks a perfectly straight line on his upper lip, and his fine teeth show when he laughs without noise.

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Milady de Winter

Also known as the Englishwoman, the witch, the lady

A dangerous and beautiful femme fatale who serves as a primary antagonist. She is a master of deception and uses her charms to manipulate political events.

As drawn: A beautiful woman of twenty to two and twenty, pale and fair, with the most beautiful light hair imaginable falling in long curls in profusion over her shoulders, large blue languishing eyes, rosy lips and hands of alabaster.

Anne of Austria

Also known as the Queen, la Reine

Queen of France.

As drawn: A queen of twenty-six or twenty-seven in the full splendour of her beauty, her carriage that of a goddess, her eyes casting the brilliancy of emeralds yet full of sweetness and majesty.