Mousqueton

Also known as: Mouston · Role: lackey · First appears: Chapter 2

Life events

• Mouston grew fat enough to equal Porthos in girth.(Chapter2 · 📍 Pierrefonds)
  • With: Porthos
  • “Consider my joy when, after a year and a half’s judicious feeding--for I used to feed him up myself--the fellow--”
• Porthos instructed Mouston to have a new coat made every month as his clothing pattern.(Chapter2)
  • With: Porthos
  • “It was exactly at that time--that is to say, nearly two years and a half ago--that I set out for Belle-Isle, instructing Mouston (so as always to have, in every event, a pattern of every fashion) to have a coat made for himself every month.”
• Porthos discovered that none of his fashionable suits fitted him because Mouston had grown too stout.(Chapter2)
  • With: Porthos
  • “But it wants only two days to the fete; I received the invitation yesterday; made Mouston post hither with my wardrobe, and only this morning discovered my misfortune”
• Porthos leaves Mousqueton’s clothing to him and bequeaths Mousqueton to Raoul.(Chapter55 · 📍 Pierrefonds)
  • With: Porthos Raoul
  • “I leave to my intendant Mousqueton all of my clothes, of city, war, or chase, to the number of forty-seven suits”
• Mousqueton dies while clutching the clothes Porthos left him.(Chapter55)
  • With: D’Artagnan
  • “But D’Artagnan was mistaken. Mousqueton was dead!”

Chapter 2

• employer: Porthos (Mouston is identified in the surrounding passage as Porthos’s intendant and master’s servant.) “D’Artagnan stopped at the threshold and looked in at the pensive Porthos and then, as the sight of the innumerable garments strewing the floor caused mighty sighs to heave the bosom of that excellent gentleman, D’Artagnan thought it time to put an end to these dismal reflections, and coughed by way of announcing himself.”

Chapter 3

• employer: Porthos (Porthos's servant is reasonably inferred from Porthos sending Mouston on an errand.) “I think that I once sent Mouston to a fellow of that name.”

Chapter 55

• employer: Porthos “I leave to my intendant Mousqueton all of my clothes, of city, war, or chase, to the number of forty-seven suits, in the assurance that he will wear them till they are worn out, for the love of and in remembrance of his master.”
• friends with Porthos “Moreover, I bequeath to M. le Vicomte de Bragelonne my old servant and faithful friend Mousqueton, already named”
• friends with D’Artagnan “Mousqueton, my good friend,” said D’Artagnan”
• with Raoul (Mousqueton is bequeathed to Raoul as part of Porthos’s testamentary arrangements.) “Moreover, I bequeath to M. le Vicomte de Bragelonne my old servant and faithful friend Mousqueton, already named, providing that the said vicomte shall so act that Mousqueton shall declare, when dying, he has never ceased to be happy.”
• employer: Raoul (Raoul receives Mousqueton as part of the bequest and is charged with his welfare.) “Moreover, I bequeath to M. le Vicomte de Bragelonne my old servant and faithful friend Mousqueton, already named, providing that the said vicomte shall so act that Mousqueton shall declare, when dying, he has never ceased to be happy.”

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