Mousqueton

Also known as: Boniface · Family: Porthos’s household · Role: valet · First appears: Chapter 7

Life events

Mousqueton enters Porthos’s service under an agreement providing clothing and lodging.(Chapter7)
- With: Porthos
- “He had entered the service of Porthos upon condition that he should only be clothed and lodged”
Mme. Coquenard agrees to give Porthos eight hundred livres and provide mounts for Porthos and Mousqueton.(Chapter32)
- With: Mme. Coquenard Porthos
- “the result of the sitting was that the procurator’s wife should give eight hundred livres in money, and should furnish the horse and the mule which should have the honor of carrying Porthos and Mousqueton to glory.”
Mousqueton returns Porthos’s horse and mule by fastening them to the procurator’s door.(Chapter34 · 📍 Rue aux Ours)
- With: Porthos
- “Arrived there, he fastened, according to the orders of his master, both horse and mule to the knocker of the procurator’s door;”
Athos orders the lackeys to search separately for Milady’s retreat.(Chapter64 · 📍 Armentières)
- With: Athos Planchet Grimaud Bazin
- “They must set out the next morning at daybreak, and go to Armentières—each by a different route.”

employer: Porthos “Let us pass, then, from the valet of Athos to the valet of Porthos, from Grimaud to Mousqueton.”

with Planchet (Mousqueton is asked to share his provisioning method with Planchet.) “You must give your recipe to Planchet.”

employer: Porthos “The lackeys on their part, like the coursers of Hippolytus, shared the sadness of their masters. Mousqueton collected a store of crusts; Bazin, who had always been inclined to devotion, never quit the churches; Planchet watched the flight of flies; and Grimaud, whom the general distress could not induce to break the silence imposed by his master, heaved sighs enough to soften the stones.”

employer: Porthos “Then,” continued he, “there is a horse for my lackey, and my valise. As to my arms, it is useless to trouble you about them; I have them.” “A horse for your lackey?” resumed the procurator’s wife, hesitatingly; “but that is doing things in lordly style, my friend.” “Ah, madame!” said Porthos, haughtily; “do you take me for a beggar?” “No; I only thought that a pretty mule makes sometimes as good an appearance as a horse, and it seemed to me that by getting a pretty mule for Mousqueton—”

employer: Porthos “A quarter of an hour afterward Porthos appeared at the end of the Rue Férou on a very handsome genet. Mousqueton followed him upon an Auvergne horse, small but very handsome.”

employer: Athos (Athos gives orders to Mousqueton, his lackey.) “Planchet, Grimaud, Bazin, and Mousqueton presented themselves, and received clear, positive, and serious orders from Athos.”

Extracted from the original text of The Three Musketeers. Made with Rho MD.