Athos

Also known as: Comte de la Fere / Comte de la Fère / M. de la Fere / M. le Comte de la Fere / Monsieur le Comte de la Fere / the comte / the count · Family: Royalist · Role: soldier · First appears: Chapter 1

Life events

• Louis XIV learns that the Vicomte de Bragelonne is the Comte de la Fere’s son.(Chapter1 · 📍 Louvre)
  • With: Louis XIV Raoul
  • “The father of the Vicomte de Bragelonne is M. le Comte de la Fere”
• Athos grants Raoul formal consent to marry Mademoiselle de la Vallière.(Chapter15 · 📍 Blois)
  • With: Raoul
  • “you require my formal consent, and you have it.”
• Athos decides to accompany Raoul to Paris to seek the king’s permission for the marriage.(Chapter15 · 📍 Paris)
  • With: Raoul
  • “We shall set off in a few hours.”
• Athos resolves to seek royal authority to draw his sword against Vicomte de Wardes.(Chapter15 · 📍 Blois)
  • With: Vicomte de Wardes
  • “Authority to draw my sword against the man who has inflicted this injury upon me.”
• Athos orders their immediate departure after learning Vicomte de Wardes’s identity.(Chapter15 · 📍 Paris)
  • With: Raoul
  • “we will set off at once. Come, monsieur.”
• The Comte reveals the disgraced lady’s role in enslaving Felton, Lord de Winter’s father’s murderer.(Chapter20)
  • With: Buckingham Felton Lord de Winter
  • “That which was not just was, that, when in England, this woman, by her seductions, completely enslaved a young man in the service of Lord de Winter, by name Felton.”
• Athos announces that he will leave Paris and return to Blois.(Chapter21 · 📍 Blois)
  • “In that case I shall return to Blois. We will take leave of each other to-night; to-morrow at daybreak I shall be on my horse again.”
• Louis refuses permission for Mademoiselle de la Vallière and Vicomte de Bragelonne to marry.(Chapter43)
  • With: Louis XIV La Vallière Raoul
  • “When they went to ask the king’s permission to arrange the marriage, he refused his permission.”
• Raoul reveals that the king has deferred his marriage to Louise de la Vallière.(Chapter55 · 📍 Fontainebleau)
  • With: Raoul La Vallière
  • “I solicited his majesty’s consent through the Comte de la Fere, and, without absolutely refusing it, he positively said it must be deferred.”
• Louis XIV decrees that Louise de la Vallière’s marriage to Vicomte de Bragelonne shall be celebrated.(Chapter58)
  • With: Louis XIV La Vallière Raoul
  • “The Comte de la Fere had solicited from me Mademoiselle de la Vallière’s hand for his son. And, on his return from England, the marriage shall be celebrated, since they love each other.”