Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 8:59 PM UTC

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srean wrote: post #13

Count of Monte Cristo is also semi fictional. A few month's ago I started reading Three Musketeers again. I had forgotten how relentless and fast moving it is. Moving from one action set piece to the next from beginning to end. It is almost overpowering, literally had to catch my breadth before turning a page. I had forgotten how it was when I had read it as a kid.

I read both of these in the last year and they're both phenomenal. I'm working my way through the classics, there's a reason they've survived centuries. Actually, I listened to a dramatization of The Three Musketeers and I was struck by how _funny_ it is. The 4-way duel at the beginning is hilarious and Aramis' and Porthos' respective romantic escapades give great comic relief to what is otherwise an action packed ad…

Post by hodgesrm » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 9:19 PM UTC

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Wow, that's really cool. I knew that Cardinal Richelieu was a real person (and that he is credited with inventing the butter knife!), but I didn't realize there were others.

D'Artagnan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Batz_de_Castelmore_... Cardinal Mazarin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Mazarin Athos - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_d%27Athos Porthos - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_de_Porthau Aramis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_d%27Aramitz Comte de Troisville (D'artagnan's mentor) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comte_de_Troisville All highly fic…

Post by Shitty-kitty » Wed, Mar 25, 2026, 10:23 PM UTC

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> So, he became a priest? (Father Ted [a literary classic] reference) Galileo had (illegitimate) daughters but was unable to find husbands for them, so their remaining options were to become nuns. One seems to have quite brilliant, but the other a drunk: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%27s_Daughter Back in the day the Church was the social safety net of society, so many folks ended up in monasteries as a form…

Only if you were reasonably wealthy. Monasteries were not orphanages. You could sometimes dump a baby off there (they had deposit bins specifically for that), but they wouldn't raise it. They would usually find somebody else to take care of it. Monasteries did not have accept older children or adults, either. Children given to the church would often come with money for their care and feeding. The poor would often get…

Post by AlexeyBrin » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 12:05 AM UTC

Shitty-kitty wrote: post #35

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Only if you were reasonably wealthy. Monasteries were not orphanages. You could sometimes dump a baby off there (they had deposit bins specifically for that), but they wouldn't raise it. They would usually find somebody else to take care of it. Monasteries did not have accept older children or adults, either. Children given to the church would often come with money for their care and feeding. The poor would often get…

Genearlly nuns would enter to convent before puberty while boys would enter the monastary after. You are right that they were not orphanages and did not take young children, thou what orphanages there were, were run by the Church. Abandoing newborns to a orphanage was not possible. Babies can't survive on cow's milk, especially the unpastuzed kind.

Post by Starman_Jones » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 2:02 AM UTC

brightball wrote: post #2

Hold on…that was an entirely fictional story? Is there some part of it that was based on real people?