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Aramis
René d'Herblay 'Aramis' is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas. He and the other two musketeers Athos and Porthos are friends of the novel's protagonist, d'Artagnan. more...
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Aramis is quite an exception among the musketeers since his given name is mentioned twice by Dumas: he is christened René. We hear this name when d'Artagnan stumbles upon him and his mistress in the second book, and again when Bazin is talking about Aramis in the third. In Twenty Years After he is a Jesuit as l'abbé d'Herblay as well as Chevalier d'Herblay. In The Vicomte de Bragelonne he is known as the Bishop of Vannes, a title given to him by Nicolas Fouquet and later he became the Superior General of the Jesuits. When he comes back from exile, he is a Spanish noble and known as Duke of Alameda.
Aramis loves intrigues and women, which fits well with the opinions of the time regarding Jesuits and abbots (before the French Revolution, abbots benefited the incomes of an abbey, but were not required to follow the monastery rules — which Aramis understands well). As a musketeer, his great ambition was to become an abbé; as an abbé he wishes for the life of the soldier. Aramis seems to be followed by luck, but it is never enough; every step forward must be used to climb to even greater power. This characteristic leads to his downfall in \"The Man in the Iron Mask\", the last section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne.
The fictional Aramis is loosely based on the historical musketeer Henri d'Aramitz whose name comes from the French village now named Aramits.
Film and television
Actors who have played Aramis on screen include:
Harold M. Shaw, in The Three Musketeers: Parts I and II (1911);
C.N. Mortensen, in The Three Musketeers (1916);
Pierre de Guingand, in Les trois mousquetaires (1921);
Eugene Pallette, in The Three Musketeers (1921);
Gino Corrado, in The Iron Mask (1929);
Jean-Louis Allibert, in Les Trois Mousquetaires (1933);
Onslow Stevens, in The Three Musketeers (1935);
John ‘Dusty’ King, in The Three Musketeers (1939);
Robert Coote, in The Three Musketeers (1948);
Keith Richards, in The Three Musketeers (1950);
Judd Holdren, in Lady in the Iron Mask (1952);
Jacques François, in Les Trois Mousquetaires (1953);
Paul Hansard, in The Three Musketeers (1954);
Paul Campbell, in The Three Musketeers (1956) and Le Avventure dei tre moschettieri (1957);
Tim O'Connor, in The Three Musketeers (TV movie) (1960);
Jaques Toja, in Les Trois Mousquetaires: La Vengeance de Milady (1961) and Les Trois Mousquetaires: Les Ferrets de la Reine (1961);
Roberto Risso, in D’Artagnan contro i tre moschettieri (1963);
Gary Watson, in The Three Musketeers (1966);
John Woodvine, in The Further Adventures of the Three Musketeers (1967);
Roger Sterckx, in Die Drie Musketiers (1968);
Colin Fox, in The Three Musketeers (1969);
Georges Mansart, in Les Quatre Charlots Mousquetaires (1971);
Richard Chamberlain, in The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), and The Return of the Musketeers (1989);
Igor Starygin, in D'Artanyan i Tri Mushketyora (1978), Mushketyory 20 let spustya (1992), and Tayna Korolevy Anny ili Mushketyory 30 Let Spustya (1993);
Lloyd Bridges, in The Fifth Musketeer (1979);
Igor Starigin, in D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) and its sequels (1992, 1993);
Eiko Yamada, in Anime San Jushi (1987);
Charlie Sheen, in The Three Musketeers (1993);
Sami Frey, in Revenge of the Musketeers (1994);
Jeremy Irons, in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998);
Thomas Beckett, in Three Musketeers (1999);
Callum Blue, in Young Blades (2001);
Nick Moran, in The Musketeer (2001);
Allan Corduner, in La Femme Musketeer (TV miniseries) (2003);
Grégori Derangère, in D'Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires (2005);
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