musketeer

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More than 350 years after the death of legendary French musketeer d'Artagnan, remains have been found under the floor of a Dutch church that may well have been his.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Swordsman D’Artagnan arrives in Paris chasing his dreams to become a king’s musketeer, where he commits many a faux pas and gets robbed, among other indignities.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2023

A lone musketeer of disruption, he spouts mantras about the glory of “breaking stuff,” and cloaks his bottomless greed and shallow narcissism in showy messianic robes.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2022

D’Artagnan is “the musketeer team, you know,” Daguin said, referencing the swashbuckling character after whom she named her company.

From Washington Post • May 23, 2020

The practised musketeer, in the reign of Elizabeth, could hardly fire his piece once in twenty minutes; the merest novice can fire the repeating rifle twenty times in one minute.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various