(*) Gascon arrives in Paris to meet Monseiur de Treville, where he instead meets a certain man whose servant Bazin has convinced him to retire & become a Jesuit, & who finds the hero his own servant, Planchet.
In the first act of Cyrano de Bergerac, the title character's friend Cuigy calls Cyrano by this name when he congratulates him for his victorious duel against the Vicomte de Valvert. He notoriously fails to kill the Comte de Wardes despite running him through three times at Calais. At the start of the first novel in which he appears this character is given a yellow nag for his journey, and en route is beaten unconscious by a group of men who. This (*) Gascon arrives in Paris to meet Monseiur de Treville, where he instead meets a certain man whose servant Bazin has convinced him to retire & become a Jesuit, & who finds the hero his own servant, Planchet. His beloved, Constance, is forced to hide in a nunnery, but is discovered & poisoned. FTP, name this savior of the Duke of Buckingham, whose part in thwarting the treacherous Lady de Winter entitles him to a place among the title companions of a novel by Alexandre Dumas-père : Porthos, Athos, & Aramis of The Three Musketeers.
In the first act of Cyrano de Bergerac, the title character's friend Cuigy calls Cyrano by this name when he congratulates him for his victorious duel against the Vicomte de Valvert.
{D'artagnan}