Athos (character)

. He is uncharacteristically terrified by the appearance of Mordaunt, Milady's son, who is attempting to avenge the death of his mother. Athos, despite his reluctance to engage with the son of his ex-wife, ends up forced to slay him in an underwater fight in the English Channel.

In the third novel,

Louis XIV of France, who has seduced his son Raoul's fiancée and is briefly thrown into the Bastille

for voicing his contempt. After being pardoned at d'Artagnan's instigation, Athos withdraws to his home, where he dies of sorrow after Raoul is killed at war.

Athos's first name is never told in the novels. However, in Dumas's play "The Youth of the Musketeers," the young Milady, then named Charlotte, calls him "Olivier."

Sources

The fictional Athos is named after the historical musketeer

Queen of France

in these novels and in the historical period in which they are set.

Film and television portrayals

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Athos.

• Herbert Delmar, in The Three Musketeers: Parts I and II (1911)
• Alfred Hollingsworth, in The Three Musketeers (1916)
• Les trois mousquetaires
  (1921)
• Léon Bary, in The Three Musketeers (1921) and The Iron Mask (1929)
• Henri Rollan, in Les Trois Mousquetaires (1933)
• Paul Lukas, in The Three Musketeers (1935)
• Douglass Dumbrille, in The Three Musketeers (1939)
• Bert Roach in The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
• Van Heflin, in The Three Musketeers (1948)
• John Hubbard, in The Three Musketeers (1950)
• Steve Brodie, in Lady in the Iron Mask (1952)
• Jean Martinelli, in Les Trois Mousquetaires (1953)
• Roger Delgado, in The Three Musketeers (1954)
• Domenico Modugno, in The Three Musketeers (1956)
• Barry Morse, in The Three Musketeers (TV movie) (1960)
• Georges Descrières, in Les Trois Mousquetaires: La Vengeance de Milady (1961) and Les Trois Mousquetaires: Les Ferrets de la Reine (1961)
• Franco Fantasia, in D’Artagnan contro i tre moschettieri (1963)
• Jeremy Watson, in The Three Musketeers (1966)
• Jeremy Young, in The Further Adventures of the Three Musketeers (1967)
• Erik Maes, in Die Drie Musketiers (1968)
• Powys Thomas, in The Three Musketeers (1969)
• Oliver Reed, in The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), and The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
• Yvan Tanguy, in The Four Charlots Musketeers [fr] (1974)
• Veniamin Smekhov, in D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978), Musketeers Twenty Years After (1992), and The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After (1993)
• José Ferrer, in The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
• Akira Kamiya, in Anime San Jushi (1987)
• Kiefer Sutherland, in The Three Musketeers (1993)
• Jean-Luc Bideau, in Revenge of the Musketeers (1994)
• Edward Albert, in the 1998 film The Face of Alexandre Dumas (also released as The Man in the Iron Mask)
• John Malkovich, in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
• Gordon Carpenter, in Three Musketeers (1999)
• Scott Hickman, in Young Blades (2001) (unaired TV series pilot)
• Jan Gregor Kremp, in The Musketeer (2001)
• Christopher Cazenove, in La Femme Musketeer (TV miniseries) (2003)
• Heino Ferch, in D'Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires (2005)
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  )
• Matthew Macfadyen, in The Three Musketeers (2011)
• Tom Burke, in The Musketeers (TV series) (2014–2016)
• Vincent Cassel in The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023) and The Three Musketeers: Milady (2023)

Other mentions

The South-East Asian stone loach Schistura athos is named after the character of Athos and there are two more species in the genus Schistura which are each named after one of the Three Musketeers, S. aramis and S. porthos.^[2]

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