M. de Gesvres

Also known as: M. le Duc de Gesvres · Family: French court · Role: captain of the guards · First appears: Chapter 34

Life events

Louis XIV ordered D’Artagnan’s musketeers to arrive before M. de Gesvres’s guards.(Chapter34 · 📍 Nantes)
- With: Louis XIV D’Artagnan
- “Be sure that your musketeers are placed before his guards arrive.”
D’Artagnan reveals that Louis XIV secretly ordered him to go to Nantes without informing M. de Gesvres.(Chapter38 · 📍 Nantes)
- With: D’Artagnan Louis XIV Fouquet
- “The king commanded me to set out for Nantes, it is true; and to say nothing about it to M. de Gesvres.”
M. de Gesvres escorts D’Artagnan to Louis XIV with twelve guards.(Chapter52 · 📍 hostelry)
- With: D’Artagnan Louis XIV
- “M. de Gesvres appeared, at the head of twelve guards, in front of the hostelry.”
D’Artagnan is taken into the king’s cabinet while guards remain posted outside.(Chapter52 · 📍 castle of Nantes)
- With: D’Artagnan Louis XIV
- “Gesvres made D’Artagnan pass in first, and took him straight to the cabinet where Louis was waiting for his captain of the musketeers”
A report spreads through Nantes that D’Artagnan has been arrested by royal order.(Chapter52 · 📍 Nantes)
- With: D’Artagnan
- “the report was quickly spread throughout the city that monsieur le capitaine of the musketeers had been arrested by order of the king.”

with D’Artagnan (The king places D’Artagnan’s musketeers in a precedence contest with Gesvres’s guards.) “At Nantes you will meet with M. le Duc de Gesvres, captain of the guards. Be sure that your musketeers are placed before his guards arrive. Precedence always belongs to the first comer.”

friends with Fouquet “The absence of M. de Gesvres, who has the honor of being one of your friends.”

with Louis XIV (The king mistrusts M. de Gesvres.) “‘Your majesty does not employ your guards,’ said the captain, a little humiliated, ‘because you mistrust M. de Gesvres, that is all.’”

with D’Artagnan (Gesvres escorts D’Artagnan to the king under circumstances widely reported as an arrest.) “I don’t pick you up; I meet with you, and I beg you to come with me.”
with Louis XIV (Gesvres is acting on the king’s behalf.) “‘On the part of the king, I will wager?’ ‘Yes.’”

Extracted from the original text of The Man in the Iron Mask. Made with Rho MD.