Show 1 DARTAGNAN STATUE I All readers of th the Three Musketeer and admirers of ot DArtagnan D' and who I does doE's not admire him bliss will 1 be glad to hear hur that a ft statue I is III to be J to their 1 hero It H Is III to be placed at Gers Gera in Ga Gal Gascony Gas Gas- 1 cony which Is II perhaps Ia rather fa far I afield tild but thon thau lJ J DArtagnan A Il wa was of course a I Gascon We agree with lt M. M Paul st In the Debats Debat that the pedestal of the statue II at et t lest least should have he a medallion I of ot the charming Mme M. M Gln- Gln tells us UI th that t D' D DArtagnan was dran drawn from life liCe There was all a R. certain Charles rles de Barz Bara Seigneur d' d gnan who played a heroic part in the wars war of Louis XIV and anti Dumag Duma took hi hl hero from this character The fhe real nan fought In a prodigious number of of of- camPal campaigns ns and was employed on it sert cr I t missions minIons by Richelieu and Louis Louts XIV Finally he was killed at the siege of Just when his fortune esat e II at lt its hel height ht There is not we e think hunk mi tHY any evl evidence in Dumas Dumas' book hook that our hem hem n ever married But the veal real DArtagnan married and made mad a a. sad lId mess of or H It for he had a a. ver ven very Jealous jealous wife t H It I Is possible ble e that posterity would never t I have l ai 1 I dt g f fI I of t this thin charming charming- a adventurer if r tt Ii lie q n nt t been for Dumas r cr GateS IC |