# Twenty Years After — Character guide

> Key figures in Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas.

- [Athos](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/athos.md): Twenty years on, Athos has buried his old name beneath the title of Comte de la Fère and a modest property at Bragelonne, where he raises the orphan Raoul as his own. D'Artagnan's arrival stirs the old comradeship and th
- [D'Artagnan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/d_artagnan.md): Twenty years have made d'Artagnan a lieutenant of musketeers and a man who answers a queen's summons with a soldier's obedience rather than a youth's ardor. When both Anne of Austria and Mazarin call on him in the same h
- [Porthos](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/porthos.md): Porthos has grown grander in name—du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds—and no less convinced that his greatness is a burden to lesser men. He frets about traps and titles with the same earnest vanity, hooking on his cloa
- [Aramis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/aramis.md): Aramis has shed his name of perdition for the abbé's cassock, and his servant Bazin guards his whereabouts with locked doors and holy indignation. D'Artagnan's search for him collides with Rochefort's intrigues and the c
- [Mazarin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/mazarin.md): Mazarin governs through surveillance and suspicion, and his nights are haunted by the Duc de Beaufort, whom he has caged for years and now dreads even in dreams. He interrogates his jailer La Ramée about walls, bars, and
- [Raoul](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/raoul.md): Raoul is the orphan Athos raised into a gentleman, and the affection between them is so tender it makes Athos tremble for what love may one day cost the boy. On the road from Paris, Athos corrects his seat and his grip o
- [Grimaud](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/grimaud.md): Grimaud has spent decades as Athos's shadow, a man so sparing with speech that his rare utterances land like verdicts. When he recognizes the dying executioner of Bethune, the past he helped bury — Milady's death and the
- [Mordaunt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/mordaunt.md): Mordaunt moves through the story as the musketeers' most unnerving enemy: a young man whose very name makes invincible men shudder. He has inherited his mother's cunning and a grievance he believes justifies any cruelty,
- [Planchet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/planchet.md): Planchet has climbed from lackey to shopkeeper, yet he opens his gate and his heart the moment d'Artagnan returns. His easy rapport with Athos's household — the smile, the instant recognition — bridges the twenty years b
- [Mousqueton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/mousqueton.md): Mousqueton measures every lodging by its kitchen and every journey by its risk, sighing over saddle horses and loaded pistols alike. Yet when Porthos says saddle Vulcan and Bayard, he obeys without hesitation, and his fi
- [Lord de Winter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/lord_de_winter.md): De Winter stands as both judge and target when Mordaunt confronts him with the execution at Bethune, and he answers not with denial but with a catalogue of Milady's poisonings, seductions, and murders. His composure unde
- [Anne of Austria](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/anne_of_austria.md): Anne endures Mazarin's sly reminders of Buckingham, Chevreuse, and Beaufort as wounds reopened at will, her pride flaring even as she yields to his counsel. She is a sovereign who has learned to temporize, to imprison, a
- [La Ramée](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/la_ramee.md): The governor of the Vincennes prison, guarding the Duc de Beaufort.
- [Comminges](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/comminges.md): An officer of the guard, loyal to the queen and Mazarin.
- [Bazin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/bazin.md): Aramis's former servant, now a church beadle.
- [Cromwell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/cromwell.md): Cromwell never appears in the flesh here so much as in his letter to Mazarin — a document that reads like a man who has already won and is merely informing Europe of the fact. He claims the Spirit of the Lord and the hop
- [Charles Stuart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/charles_stuart.md): Charles Stuart stands before his accusers with his head still covered, insisting that to answer them would be to grant them a authority they do not possess. He is proud, theatrical, and utterly alone — he scans the bench
- [Rochefort](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/rochefort.md): Rochefort moves through the Fronde's drawing rooms with the ease of a man who has survived every regime by never quite committing to one. He is the kind of enemy who prefers to let others draw first, and the kind of ally
- [Gondy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/gondy.md): Gondy is the Fronde's most dangerous kind of operator: a man of the cloth who understands that a well-timed riot is worth a hundred sermons. He cultivates the people, flatters the great, and keeps his own counsel so care
- [Beaufort](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/beaufort.md): Beaufort is the grandson of Henry IV, as brave and as Gascon as his grandfather and considerably less clever, which is precisely what makes him dangerous. He passes his captivity composing curses on Mazarin and failing t
- [Madame de Chevreuse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/madame_de_chevreuse.md): A scheming noblewoman and former friend of Anne of Austria.
- [Blaisois](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/blaisois.md): A servant in Athos's household at Bragelonne.
- [Groslow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/groslow.md): An English captain and ally of Mordaunt, hostile to the musketeers.
- [Guitant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/guitant.md): A French officer and commander of the guards.
- [Friquet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/friquet.md): A street urchin and choirboy who aids the Frondeurs.
- [Parry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/parry.md): A loyal servant of King Charles I, carrying messages.
- [Olivain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/olivain.md): D'Artagnan's servant, replacing Planchet.
- [Chavigny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/chavigny.md): A French nobleman and governor of Vincennes.
- [Madame de Longueville](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/madame_de_longueville.md): A noblewoman and Frondeuse, involved in political plots.
- [Count de Guiche](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/count_de_guiche.md): A young nobleman and friend of Raoul.
- [Abbé Scarron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/abb_scarron.md): A witty, crippled poet and salon host in Paris.
- [Madame Henrietta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/madame_henrietta.md): The wife of Charles I, seeking aid in France.
- [Duc de Châtillon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/duc_de_chatillon.md): A French nobleman and military commander.
- [Harrison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/harrison.md): A colonel in Cromwell's army, involved in the king's trial.
- [Laporte](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/laporte.md): A valet to Anne of Austria, loyal to her.
- [Broussel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/broussel.md): A popular Parisian councillor, whose arrest sparks the Fronde.
- [Pistache](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/pistache.md): A servant of the Duc de Beaufort.
- [Louvières](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/louvieres.md): A Parisian bourgeois involved in the Fronde.
- [Bernouin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/bernouin.md): Mazarin's valet and trusted servant.
- [Bishop Juxon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/bishop_juxon.md): The bishop who attends Charles I before his execution.
- [Louis XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/louis_xiv.md): The young king of France, still a child during the events.
- [Pretty Madeleine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/pretty_madeleine.md): An innkeeper's daughter in Paris.
- [Marshal de Grammont](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/marshal_de_grammont.md): A French marshal and diplomat.
- [Queen Henrietta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/queen_henrietta.md): The queen consort of Charles I, in exile in France.
- [Prince de Condé](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/prince_de_conde.md): A great French general and prince of the blood.
- [Mademoiselle de la Vallière](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/mademoiselle_de_la_valliere.md): A young girl, future love interest of Raoul and Louis XIV.
- [Buckingham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/buckingham.md): The late Duke, mentioned in connection with Anne of Austria.
- [Madame de Montbazon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/twenty_years_after_se/characters/madame_de_montbazon.md): A noblewoman and friend of the Frondeurs.

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