Athos is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père. A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... DArtagnan and the Musketeers The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... Twenty Years After (Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... Alexandre Dumas redirects here. ...

In The Three Musketeers, he and the other two musketeers Porthos and Aramis are friends of the novel's protagonist, d'Artagnan. He has a mysterious past connecting him with the villainess of the novel, Milady de Winter. A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smooth-bore long gun. ... Porthos is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas. ... René dHerblay Aramis is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas. ... Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte dArtagnan (c. ... Milady de Winter, often referred to as simply Milady, is a fictional character in the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père. ...

The oldest by some years, Athos is a father figure to the other musketeers. He is described as noble and handsome but also very secretive, drowning his secret sorrows in drink.

By the end of the novel, it is revealed that he is the Count of la Fère, who was Milady's husband before she married the Baron of Winter.

In the latter two novels, he is openly known as the Count of la Fère and is the father of the young hero, Raoul de Bragelonne. Like Porthos', Athos' given name is never told. However, in Dumas' play "The Youth of the Musketeers", the young Milady, then named Charlotte, calls the then Viscount de la Fère Olivier, so one may assume that this is Athos' given name. A given name is a name which specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name. ...

The fictional Athos is named after the historical musketeer Armand de Sillègue d'Athos d'Autevielle (1615-1644) (they don't actually have much in common apart from the name). His title, Count of La Fère, while invented, is tied to the domains of La Fère which were once owned by Anne of Austria, Queen of France in these novels. Events June 2 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France. ... // Events February to August - Explorer Abel Tasmans second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia. ... Anne of Austria by Peter Paul Rubens, c. ...

Film and television

Actors who have played Athos on screen include:

• Henri Rollan, in Les trois mousquetaires (1921)
• Paul Lukas, in The Three Musketeers (1935)
• Van Heflin, in The Three Musketeers (1948)
• Barry Morse, in The Three Musketeers (TV movie) (1960)
• Oliver Reed, in The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), and The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
• Veniamin Smekhov, in D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) and its sequels (1992, 1993)
• José Ferrer, in The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
• Kiefer Sutherland, in The Three Musketeers (1993)
• John Malkovich, in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
• Jan Gregor Kremp, in The Musketeer (2001)
• Christopher Cazenove, in La Femme Musketeer (TV miniseries) (2003)