The Three Musketeers

M. Dessessart

Also known as: Dessessart / Monsieur Dessessart · Family: King's forces · Role: commander of a Guards company · First appears: Chapter 6

Life events

  • Louis XIII orders D’Artagnan placed in the Guards of Monsieur Dessessart.(Chapter6 · 📍 the Louvre)
  • D’Artagnan secures authorization to leave Paris for fifteen days on a mission to London.(Chapter19 · 📍 London)
  • D’Artagnan returns to Paris and resumes duty with Monsieur Dessessart’s company at the Louvre.(Chapter21 · 📍 Louvre)
    • With: D’Artagnan M. de Tréville
    • “the company of Dessessart was on duty at the Louvre, and that he might repair at once to his post.”
  • D’Artagnan and the soldiers prepare to depart for the campaign.(Chapter40)
  • The Musketeers and Guards separate and assemble under their respective captains for the king’s review.(Chapter40 · 📍 Louvre)
    • With: D’Artagnan M. de Tréville
    • “At the first sound of the morning trumpet the friends separated; the Musketeers hastening to the hôtel of M. de Tréville, the Guards to that of M. Dessessart.”
  • 1627 · D’Artagnan is selected to lead volunteers reconnoitering a bastion retaken by the Rochellais.(Chapter41 · 📍 La Rochelle)
    • With: D’Artagnan Duc d’Orléans
    • “As to the man to be depended upon, I have him under my hand, monsieur,” said M. Dessessart, pointing to D’Artagnan”
  • 1627 · D’Artagnan receives seven thousand livres for the queen’s diamond.(Chapter47)
    • With: D’Artagnan
    • “The next day, M. Dessessart’s valet came to D’Artagnan’s lodging, and gave him a bag containing seven thousand livres. This was the price of the queen’s diamond.”

Chapter 6

  • servant: D’Artagnan “place this young man in the company of the Guards of Monsieur Dessessart, your brother-in-law.”
  • with M. de Tréville (interaction) “the company of the Guards of Monsieur Dessessart, your brother-in-law.”

Chapter 13

  • with D’Artagnan (d’Artagnan serves in Dessessart’s Guards.) “Monsieur d’Artagnan is in Monsieur Dessessart’s Guards”
  • with D’Artagnan (d’Artagnan belongs to Dessessart’s Guards.) “Monsieur d’Artagnan is in Monsieur Dessessart’s Guards”

Chapter 33

  • with D’Artagnan (Milady speculates that Monsieur Dessessart prevented D’Artagnan from visiting her.) “Oh, no; he must have been prevented by Monsieur de Tréville or Monsieur Dessessart.”

Chapter 40

  • servant: D’Artagnan “But Monsieur de Tréville is a skilled physiognomist, who knows men at first sight; and he placed you in the company of his brother-in-law, Monsieur Dessessart, leaving you to hope that one day or other you should enter the Musketeers.”

Chapter 41

  • with D’Artagnan (M. Dessessart designates D’Artagnan for the mission.) “As to the man to be depended upon, I have him under my hand, monsieur,” said M. Dessessart, pointing to D’Artagnan;”

Chapter 47

  • servant: D’Artagnan “Monsieur d’Artagnan is not with me; he serves under Monsieur Dessessart.”

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