Through the thin crevices of time, and from old tomes on history, there just may be a justifiable way to find reasonable proof that the most famous Musketeer in history had indeed arrived into Paris for the first time in 1640 – despite “suggested” historical proof to the contrary. Which, as these historical documents “seem” to imply, the soldier-hero actually arrived much, much earlier – leaving both the famous “Memoirs of d’Artagnan” (especially its controversial author Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras – author of these famous Memoirs from the year 1700), and of d’Artagnan’s legendary meeting with the three Musketeers (Athos, Porthos, and Aramis) on the floor of total fiction! But, again, and as this present author of this modern work hopes to prove, the chances of d’Artagnan actually meeting these men, as Courtilz had at first suggested, just may be a plausible historical episode after all! . . . Follow along with Swashbuckling author, Ted Anthony Roberts (writer of both “Donaree the Musketeer” and “Sword Against the Robe”) in his very first work on historical non-fiction, and on the early life and career of France’s most famous swashbuckling hero – whilst he attempts, along the way, to set the historical record straight.

Strictly speaking, though, this book is not a detailed biography on either d’Artagnan, nor of his three friends, but is rather a short composite-sketch of the scarce information that we do have on the early life of d’Artagnan’s entry into Paris – which is almost totally lacking! Therefore, much detective work has to be done for anything satisfying, at all, to come across to us; especially when we realize that most of what we do know (which is extremely shaky itself) comes from Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras; which, as I’ve said, is a very controversial work on its “historic” accuracy, which most historians don’t even give an inch of consideration.