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Porthos, Baron du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845), and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. [1] He and the other two musketeers, Athos and Aramis, are friends of the novel's protagonist, d'Artagnan.
Sculpture of d'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis in Condom, France Musketeers. Athos – Comte de la Fère: he has never recovered from his marriage to Milady and seeks solace in wine. Ten years older, he becomes a father figure to d'Artagnan. Porthos – Senior du Vallon: a dandy, fond of fashionable clothes and keen to make a fortune for ...
He learns of Porthos' death and Aramis' escape. Thanks to the secret power of the Jesuits, which he now commands, Aramis reaches Spain and becomes Duc d'Almeda, Spain's ambassador to France. Louise de la Vallière is eventually supplanted in the king's affections by her erstwhile friend Madame de Montespan .
Porthos is Archer's dog. One of four males born in a litter of English Beagles , Porthos and his brothers, Athos, Aramis and d'Artagnan, were named after characters from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père .
The four musketeers sentence de Winter to death by beheading, and they hire an executioner to carry out the punishment. Afterward, they are arrested by the Cardinal's guards. Richelieu charges d'Artagnan with murder for killing a valuable servant of the State, but d'Artagnan shows him the signed death warrant which, due to its ambiguous ...
Porthos wakes from a drunken stupor beside the body of a dead man. Captured by the Red Guard, he is judged and sentenced to death for murder. Before the sentence is carried out, he is rescued by thieves and taken to the Court of Miracles, a slum of thieves, beggars, and whores run by Charon (Ashley Walters), where the orphan Porthos grew up ...
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The ending of the 1939 version, with the ghosting of the figures of the four musketeers together (presumably in heaven), is a direct homage to the ending of the 1929 Douglas Fairbanks' film in which Athos, Porthos, and Aramis greet D'Artagnan upon his death and they in a ghosted image head off together for the "greater adventure beyond."