Kate Bunting Librarian and 17th century reenactor
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13/02/2006 04:15 >>> wrote: >Actually, d'Artagnan was a real person, and was a member, eventually >captain, of the King's Musketeers. However, the historical Charles de >Batz-Castlemore d'Artagnan was born somewhere around 1625 and so most of his >exploits were during the reign of Louis XIV, not Louis XIII. ________________________________________________________ There was a recent article in "History today" putting forward a theory that the Man in the Iron Mask (who also really existed) was in fact d'Artagnan. Gail wrote: >The story of Amadeus has very little to do with the real Mozart. He did not >live in terror of his father, he was very fond of him. And of course Salieri >didn't kill him. And, although he enjoyed schoolboy puns and lavatorial humour in some of his letters (as did his mother), he can't possibly have been like that all the time. I had to stop a colleague of mine from classifying a video of "Amadeus" with biographies of Mozart, under the impression that it was an accurate portrayal. ______________ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
