Athos (fictional character)

Athos is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père.

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Fictional character - The Three Musketeers - Twenty Years After - The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Alexandre Dumas, père

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In The Three Musketeers, he and the other two musketeers Porthos and Aramis are friends of the novel's protagonist, d'Artagnan. He has a mysterious past connecting him with the villainess of the novel, Milady de Winter.

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Musketeer - Porthos - Aramis - D'Artagnan - Milady de Winter

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The oldest by some years, Athos is a father figure to the other musketeers. He is described as noble but also very secretive, drowning his secret sorrows in drink.

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By the end of the novel, it is revealed that he is the Comte de la Fère, who was Milady's husband before she married the Comte de Winter.

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In the latter two novels, he is openly known as the Comte de la Fère and is the father of the young hero, Raoul de Bragelonne. Like Porthos and Aramis, Athos' given name is never told. However, in his play "The Youth of the Musketeers", the young Milady, then named Charlotte, calls the then Vicomte de la Fère Olivier, so one may assume that this is Athos' given name.

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The fictional Athos is named after the historical musketeer Armand de Sillègue d'Athos d'Autevielle (1615-1644) (they don't actually have much in common apart from the name). His title, comte de la Fère, while invented, is tied to the domains of La Fère which were once owned by Anne of Austria, Queen of France in these novels.

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Armand de Sillègue d'Athos d'Autevielle - 1615 - 1644 - Anne of Austria

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