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When choosing the characters who were to become the heroes of his major Alexander Dumas' elected four personalities, who really existed but we must confess that he took some liberties with chronology.
There is no chance in the fact that Alexandre Dumas, make them meet in sir de Tourville's lobby in Paris. The Three first cadets de Gascogne was already incorporated in the king's musketeers regiment, and Sir D'Artagnan was recently arrived in Paris. Their mother tongue, Occitan, was the same, their keen and ability to use a sword called "rapière", their taste for good food, good wines, and more specify for good Armagnac were the same. The reason was simple: they came exactly from the same region.
If we superpose the two maps,
The one of these four fellow's birth places and the one of the three areas delimitating the Armagnac appellation, it become obvious, that the Three Musketeers were born and spent their life at the rhythm of wine growing, harvest, vinification, distilling and aging of Armagnac. The very place of birth of their chief, D'Artagnan is exactly located in the centre of the three Armagnac appellation areas.
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