Porthos

From its true name Isaac de Portau was born with Pau the February 2nd 1617 and died on an unknown date. It inspired with Alexandre Dumas the fictitious character of Porthos , in the novel the Three Musketeers .

Biography

One knows of him that it belonged to a family Protesting E of the Béarn, originating in Gan. His/her father was Secrétaire of the king and the states of Navarre, and which he was thus an important character. He bought Seigneurie S and was made anoblir.

Like Athos, Porthos moved towards the army. Like this last, it started by entering, in the capacity as junior in the Gardes-Françaises, company of Essarts, (François de Guillon, lord of Essarts, were the brother-in-law of Mr. de Tréville, which had recommended it). It was thus in this company when D' Artagnan entered there has its turn in 1640 and they made countryside thus together. One finds it there in 1642 with Perpignan then with Lyon. In 1643, Porthos passed to the Mousquetaire S, the year even of died of Athos.

Then one loses his trace and one does not know what it became thereafter, nor when it died.

Character of Novel

Alexandre Dumas makes of Porthos a faithful, simple and right companion, equipped with a force herculéenne. Man hard and good, but also without much delicacy and conceited, it will leave the service after the seat of the La Rochelle, will marry and become baron of Bracieux and Pierrefonds. In the Viscount of Bragelonne , it is the first of the musketeers to disappear, crushed by a rock.

Cinema

The role of Porthos is interpreted by:

Others

See too

Internal bonds

External bond

  • Biography of the Musketeers

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