Baisemeaux
Also known as: De Baisemeaux / M. Baisemeaux / M. de Baisemeaux / Monsieur de Baisemeaux · Family: French court · Role: governor of the Bastile · First appears: Chapter 2
In chapter 2, as governor of the Bastile, Baisemeaux received D’Artagnan with unusual politeness and warned Porthos about Aramis’s visit and inquiries: “Will you be good enough to tell Monsieur d’Herblay that he has been to the Bastile, and has been making inquiries.” At the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, D’Artagnan stole and read Baisemeaux’s letter, discovering that Porthos was involved.
By chapter 63, Baisemeaux welcomed Athos and hosted D’Artagnan, Athos, and Aramis at the Bastile, where Aramis was already seated beside him in the governor’s dining-room. After D’Artagnan departed, Baisemeaux and the other two sat down to supper together. In chapter 65, he held Athos under the king’s order, but the order was revoked immediately and Athos was restored to liberty; by chapter 66, Athos and D’Artagnan referred to him as their friend.
In chapter 67, Baisemeaux acknowledged his connection to the society and submitted to his superiors. When the report stated that prisoner No. 12 was ill, he granted the prisoner’s request for a confessor, allowing Aramis to go to him.
Relationship record
Life events
- Baisemeaux warns Porthos that Aramis visited the Bastile and made inquiries.(Chapter2 · 📍 Bastile)
- D’Artagnan steals and reads Baisemeaux’s letter, discovering Porthos is involved.(Chapter2 · 📍 Faubourg Saint-Antoine)
- With: D’Artagnan Aramis Porthos
- “D’Artagnan effected his pillage of the letter without the slightest interference.”
- D’Artagnan and Athos enter Baisemeaux’s dining-room and find Aramis there.(Chapter63 · 📍 Bastile)
- With: D’Artagnan Athos Aramis
- “In a few minutes they were in the governor’s dining-room, and the first face which attracted D’Artagnan’s observation was that of Aramis, who was seated side by side with Baisemeaux”
- Aramis, Athos, and Baisemeaux sit down together to supper.(Chapter63 · 📍 Bastile)
- The king orders Athos detained in the Bastile.(Chapter65 · 📍 Bastile)
- With: Athos D’Artagnan
- “Order to detain, in my chateau of the Bastile, Monsieur le Comte de la Fere.”
- The king immediately revokes Athos’s detention order and restores his liberty.(Chapter65 · 📍 Bastile)
- With: Athos D’Artagnan
- “you will have the goodness to transcribe also this order for setting the comte immediately at liberty.”
- Baisemeaux admits his connection to the society and submits to his superiors.(Chapter67 · 📍 Bastile)
- “I am at all times and in all places at the disposal of my superiors, but--”
- The doctor’s report reveals that prisoner No. 12 is ill.(Chapter67 · 📍 Bastile)
- “No. 12 is ill!”
- Baisemeaux grants the prisoner’s request for a confessor, and Aramis goes to him.(Chapter67 · 📍 Bastile)
- With: Aramis
- “Tell the prisoner,” cried Baisemeaux, quickly,--“tell the prisoner that his request is granted.”
Chapter 2
- with Aramis (Baisemeaux informs Aramis that someone has visited the Bastile and made inquiries.) “Will you be good enough to tell Monsieur d’Herblay that he has been to the Bastile, and has been making inquiries.”
- with D’Artagnan (D’Artagnan visits Baisemeaux at the Bastile.) “The governor, Baisemeaux, received D’Artagnan with more than ordinary politeness”
- with Porthos (Baisemeaux sends Porthos a letter.) “Will you be good enough to tell Monsieur d’Herblay that he has been to the Bastile, and has been making inquiries.”
- with Aramis (Aramis has made a particular recommendation concerning Baisemeaux.) “Baisemeaux would not fail to put Aramis on his guard, if Aramis had given him any particular recommendation, and this was, in fact, the very thing that happened.”
Chapter 63
- with Aramis (D’Artagnan states that Aramis knows Baisemeaux.) “Oh! he knows Baisemeaux, the governor”
- with Athos (Baisemeaux welcomes Athos as a guest.) “The comte is welcome, I am sure.”
- with D’Artagnan (Baisemeaux had invited D’Artagnan to supper.) “Monsieur de Baisemeaux, you know you invited me to sup with you the other day.”
Chapter 65
- prisoner: Athos “you, Monsieur de Baisemeaux, with your prisoner.”
Chapter 66
- friends with Athos “Where we had been to take supper with our friend M. Baisemeaux.”
- friends with D’Artagnan “Where we had been to take supper with our friend M. Baisemeaux.”
Chapter 67
- with Athos (Baisemeaux discusses Athos’s incarceration and subsequent release.) “Baisemeaux not only had it nearly all to himself, but further, kept speaking only of that singular event, the incarceration of Athos, followed by so prompt an order to set him again at liberty.”
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