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Were the Three Musketeers real? Was the book by Alex Dumas all fiction? The Feats & Fortunes of a Gascon Adventurer distinguishes between fact and fiction the characters of Alexander Dumas's book with those of the real historical world includinb biographies. And it also has a clearly marked hoax page.
This is not an extensive site. It is definitely amateurish. But it is also just a bit fun.
From the site:
I believe that d'Artagnan has appeared in more film than any other Swashbuckler in movie history, yet too often he is ignored by today's public - not so only a few years back! However, he is still riding tall in his musketeer's saddle in such recent films as "The Three Musketeers," starring Chris O'Donnell, "The Man in the Iron Mask," and the more recent "Musketeer." Disney, once again, has rather recently taken another 'stab' at him in their animated rendention of "The Three Musketeers."
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World History
The Feats & Fortunes of a Gascon Adventurer
Were the Three Musketeers real? Was the book by Alex Dumas all fiction? The Feats & Fortunes of a Gascon Adventurer distinguishes between fact and fiction the characters of Alexander Dumas's book with those of the real historical world includinb biographies. And it also has a clearly marked hoax page.
This is not an extensive site. It is definitely amateurish. But it is also just a bit fun.
From the site:
I believe that d'Artagnan has appeared in more film than any other Swashbuckler in movie history, yet too often he is ignored by today's public - not so only a few years back! However, he is still riding tall in his musketeer's saddle in such recent films as "The Three Musketeers," starring Chris O'Donnell, "The Man in the Iron Mask," and the more recent "Musketeer." Disney, once again, has rather recently taken another 'stab' at him in their animated rendention of "The Three Musketeers."
- Book Review - Across The Endless River
Carhart, Thad. Across the Endless River. New York: Doubleday, 2009. 308 pp, $17.79 in hardcover. Review by Joyce Salisbury, Central Michigan University. Across the Endless River, by Thad Carhart, is a fictional account of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau?s visit...
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Some Russian Communists are unhappy with the new Indiana Jones film. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opened in Russia on Thursday. The communist distaste for the film can be seen at a CNN article titled Indiana Jones movie upsets communists....
- Free Historical Fiction Book Giveaway
Hachette Book Group USA has offered two books up as a giveaway at this blog. Here are the books with the publisher descriptions: THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS by Anita Amirrezvani and The Crimson Portrait by Jody Shields are now available in paperback. Let THE...
- 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies?
Yahoo! has an article up titled 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies. The subtitle notes, "Films that make your high school history teacher cry." Here are the ten that made the list: 1. 10,000 B.C. 2. Gladiator 3. 300 4. The Last Samurai 5. Apocalypto...
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I just finished reading Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome. I am not a big fiction fan but I do read the occasional historical fiction or fantasy novel. I do not always like them. However, I found this book by Richard Harris to be excellent. The book tells...