Thanks to The Three Musketeers and the extraordinary popularization of the heroes created by Alexandre Dumas through picture books, the advertising and toy industries, and most of all the movie industry, we think we know all there is to know about musketeers, whose blue tabards, pugnacity and exploits have earned this elite unit worldwide fame. Yet, those soldiers left but very little physical evidence, paradoxically concealed to us by the work of the novelist and the legend he contributed to build.
