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  • Dutch Garden May Hold The (Three) Musketeers' Skeletons

    05/06/2004 4:06:59 PM PDT · by blam · 27 replies · 192+ views
    CNN ^ | 5-5-2004
    Dutch garden may hold Musketeers' skeletons Wednesday, May 5, 2004 Posted: 2:18 PM EDT (1818 GMT) AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) -- Are the three musketeers and four swashbuckling chums buried under an unassuming Dutch garden in the town where legendary swordsman D'Artagnan was killed? Police plan to turn over an investigation into the discovery of the seven skeletons to archaeologists in the southern Dutch town of Maastricht, which has a history of battles going back to Roman times.
  • Musketeer D'Artagnan's grave in Netherlands, historian says

    11/16/2008 8:57:19 AM PST · by BGHater · 31 replies · 1,252+ views
    The Ottawa Citizen ^ | 15 Nov 2008 | Adam Sage
    PARIS - A five-year quest to locate the tomb of d'Artagnan -- the inspiration for Alexandre Dumas's novel The Three Musketeers -- has led to a small Dutch church where new research suggests the swashbuckling hero is buried. Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan died during the Siege of Maastricht on June 25, 1673, and, according to a leading French historian, was laid to rest only few kilometres away at Saint Peter and Paul Church in Wolder. "The trail is very precise," said Odile Bordaz, the author of several works on the musketeer. Ms. Bordaz discounted theories that d'Artagnan's body...