Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by mcv » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 4:15 PM UTC

sillyfluke wrote: post #48

mcv wrote: post #46

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Thomas Alexandre Dumas is a fascinating character, not only because he rose from slavery to a general of Napoleon, but he was also a spectacular, real swashbuckler known for daring action. I have no idea why there's still no big movie about him.

I'm relying on memory and it's a little pedantic, but did he actually ever experience life as a slave? His mother was a slave, but as I recall his deadbeat and slaveowner father accepted him as his son and introduced him to French society early on, but I'm not sure if he dragged his feet before doing so in the French colonies before returning to France.

I'm no expert on the details, but I thought he was sold as a slave and then bought by his dad. No idea how much time he actually spent in slavery.

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

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Post by kjs3 » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

serf wrote: post #43

kjs3 wrote: post #27

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Yes...clearly running to something that is "regurgitating a bunch of of reddit comments and academic books/papers" is much, much better than finding a couple of actual humans that read books, and then talking to them. Peak AI right there.

I get your angle, but have you ever read the discourse between humans regarding fiction? I mean humans have made death threats towards other humans about whether or not Han shot first. fiction-fan-discourse is a very low bar on the rankings of human social interaction. I'm not saying that makes it replacable and trivial, but let's not pretend that every fiction discussion with another honest to god human being is a R…

You can say this about virtually any human interaction; I'm often amazed at the sort of nonsense some people think is vitally relevant. I would far prefer talking to other humans about fiction and risk the occasion nutcase (that I can walk away from and ignore) than retreat into "tell me plausible rehashes of rehashes of other peoples thoughts and don't upset me with all that icky human interaction stuff".

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

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Post by roysting » Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 4:38 PM UTC

hulitu wrote: post #45

roysting wrote: post #23

What bothers me about these kinds of things is that we are sanitizing all of the soil of indigenous culture exactly like was done in other place around the globe by the force that drove "colonialism". Now this impulse to scour and loot humanity of its indigenous cultural sites is turned on the indigenous Europeans, by the same ruling class and their institutional "researchers", "scientists" and "adventurer" apparatch…

> at least come up with some standard of restoring things once investigated. Huh ? Have you seen US give Venezuela its oil back ? We are human beings. /s > All these artifacts survived literal millennia Thousand of years, yes. Only some dinosaurs bones survived literal millennia.

Paleolithic grave sites have also survived literal millennia. You do know that a millennia is only 1000 years, do you?

For example:

Sung(h)ir, modern Russia, 34 millennia ago, i.e., 34,000 years https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/paleolithic-burial-sungh...

Or a 9000 year old woman shaman burial in modern Germany https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/bad-durrenberg-woman-sham...