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...Artagnan, hero of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, is to be honored by the citizens of Auch in Gascony by the erection of a statue. D'Artagnan, Captain of the King's Musketeers, was, in reality, Charles de Baatz Castelmore, born at Meymes, near Aignan...
...wrist is steadier and whose judgement more sure, and as a veteran whose character has become nobler with his years and whose valor remains equal to any test. It must have been with a quick pulse beat that his admires learned that a statue is to be raised at Auch in Gascony to perpetuate the real as distinguished from the fictious d'Artagnan. It is naively said in the announcement of this important news that "Gascons have long felt that the protetype of Alexandre Dumas hero deserved recognition by his fellow countrymen whom he helped to make famous all over...
...Aria, "Auch ich war ein Jungling," from "Der Waffenschmied...