Charles de Batz de Castelmore - AKA D'Artagnan!!!
100 Days of Alexandre Dumas' "Twenty Years After" - first sequel to "The Three Musketeers" - June 1 - August 31, 2025
Commemorating Charles de Batz de Castelmore - who inspired the fictional character of d'Artagnan - on the day he died - June 25 - at the Siege of Maastricht - from a musket ball wound - which is quite fitting for a musketeer. A statue by the Russian-Dutch artist Alexander Taratynov marks the location by the Maastricht castle wall where the most famous musketeer in the world died in 1673 on June 25… First the musketeer sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli in Gascony - now THIS!!! Absolutely astounding!!!
