Aramis

This article is relating to the abbot. For the other uses, to see ARAMIS.

Henri d' Aramitz or Aramis is a laic abbot who inspired the fictitious character of Aramis in the novel of Alexandre Dumas, the Three Musketeers .

Biography

Like Porthos, Aramis belonged to a Protestant family of the Béarn. With the difference of the other musketeers inhabitant of Béarn, it was of noble military origin. His/her grandfather, the captain Huguenot Pierre d' Aramitz played an extremely active part in the wars of religion which prevailed in Béarn and the Soule at the time of Jeanne d' Albret. His/her father, Charles d' Aramitz, were, at the beginning of the XVIIe century, sergeant to the Company of the Mousquetaire S. One of the sisters of Charles d' Aramitz married Mr. de Tréville. It is thus quite naturally that the latter accepted in 1640 its nephew by alliance in his company, at the same time as Athos and Porthos, and at the moment when D' Artagnan arrived at Paris. One how long does not know Henri d' Aramitz remained with the service, but the date of his marriage is known: the February 16th 1654; the name of its wife: Jeanne de Béarn-Bonasse. It is also known that it had two wire (Armand and Clement) and two girls.

Character of Novel

Aramis of Alexandre Dumas does not have, seems it, with that of the History ( Henri d' Aramitz , which one is unaware of the birth dates and of death, Aramits being a village inhabitant of Béarn), which its name and the idea of an ecclesiastical vocation.

A too fast reading of the three novels lets accept good number of people that Aramis is extremely monk (error accentuated by the majority of the adaptations general public of works of Dumas). Actually, Aramis never misses the least occasion to throw the religious code with the nettles: it orders a feast of king, whereas it prepares his thesis, it “gives a kick to a man and greets a woman” (in Twenty Years After ), it trails in all the intrigues in any kind (women, policy, capacity, army), it never hesitates to kill, it misuses even openly its privileges of ecclésiaste (for example, in the Viscount De Bragelonne , it makes to a speech flamer incentive the crowd lapidate noble which made fun of him during the mass) and makes fun of its religious duties (later, when he fought it even noble in duel, of Artagnan asks to him whether it killed it - it with what Aramis answers him cynically: “I do not know. In any event, I, au préalable, had given him the discharge in articulo mortis ”). Throughout the three novels, it becomes clear that Aramis is a visionary who included/understood the importance of the religious capacity. Its rise in the rows of the church is used, actually, only to offer a capacity to him higher than that of the king: its role-key in the plot of the man to the iron mask (in the Viscount De Bragelonne ) once more proves it… (“With you the crown, with me the tiara. ”). The last lines of the third novel are used, once again, to show the true face of Aramis: “Athos, Porthos, goodbye. Aramis, forever, good-bye! ”, “Of the four valiant men of which we told the history, there remained nothing any more but one body: god had taken again the hearts.”. Once again, this proves well that, from its actions and its true nature, of Artagnan will never re-examine his/her friend with the paradise: it lost its heart and its doors will be closed to him forever.

True Aramis was laic abbot. The character of Dumas (abbot of Herblay) all at the same time ambitionne a career in the Church and is most tempting of the musketeers. In the Viscount of Bragelonne, it becomes bishop of Valves, then general of the Jésuites.

Cinema

The role of Aramis is interpreted by:

Internal bonds

External bond

  • Biography of the Musketeers

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