Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras
Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (16448 May 1712) was a French novelist, journalist, pamphleteer and memorialist. His memoir-novels (Mémoires de M.L.C.D.R, 1687; Mémoires de M. d'Artagnan, 1700; Mémoires de M. de B; 1711) describe the social and political world of Richelieu and Mazarin with a picaresque realism (spies, kidnappings, and political machinations predominate) and they were important precursors to both French picaresque novels and literary realism in the 18th century. Courtilz de Sandras is best known today for his semi-fictionalized memoirs of the famous musketeer d'Artagnan which were published in 1700 (27 years after the death of d'Artagnan) and which served as the model for Alexandre Dumas, père's portrayal of d'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (Fr: Les trois mousquetaires), Twenty Years After (Fr: Vingt ans après) and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (Fr: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard).
Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras
- Born
- 1644. · Paris.
- Died
- 1712. · Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- writer, novelist, memoirist, journalist, soldier, polygraph and military officer.
- Known for
- Mémoires de Monsieur d'Artagnan.
- Languages
- French.
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Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (16448 May 1712) was a French novelist, journalist, pamphleteer and memorialist. His memoir-novels (Mémoires de M.L.C.D.R, 1687; Mémoires de M. d'Artagnan, 1700; Mémoires de M. de B; 1711) describe the social and political world of Richelieu and Mazarin with a picaresque realism (spies, kidnappings, and political machinations predominate) and they were important precursors to both French picaresque novels and literary realism in the 18th century. Courtilz de Sandras is best known today for his semi-fictionalized memoirs of the famous musketeer d'Artagnan which were published in 1700 (27 years after the death of d'Artagnan) and which served as the model for Alexandre Dumas, père's portrayal of d'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (Fr: Les trois mousquetaires), Twenty Years After (Fr: Vingt ans après) and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (Fr: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard).
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Also worked under the name Capitaine Du Buisson and Du Verger. Born at Paris in 1644, died in Paris in 1712.
The recorded working language is French. Residence is recorded at Bastille. Works named in the authority record are Mémoires de Monsieur d'Artagnan.
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