Inside the story
Meet D'Artagnan
D'Artagnan is a Gascon lieutenant in the King's Musketeers, now in his fortieth year and serving Cardinal Mazarin with little enthusiasm. Shrewd, brave, and resourceful, he sets out to reunite his old comrades as new political dangers gather around France.
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A lean, wiry man of about forty with a sharp, intelligent face, keen dark eyes, a weathered olive complexion, black hair and a soldier's moustache; dressed in the worn uniform of a musketeer officer, sword ever at his side.
