Eventually, he is named Superior General of the Jesuits, which is precisely what saves his life at the end of Le Vicomte De Bragelonne, after he is betrayed by Nicolas Fouquet.ĭespite his ruthless personal ambition, Aramis is an extremely loyal friend: in fact, his only mistakes come when he refuses to harm or offend his friends.

He sees every victory as a step to climb to even greater power. Together, they worked to protect the king and to keep the queen's affair with the Duke of Buckingham from being revealed by Cardinal Richelieu.Īramis meets with great success, thanks to his Machiavellian plans and his audacity. There he met Athos, Porthos and later d'Artagnan. He enlisted in the Musketeers under the assumed name of 'Aramis'. Because duels were forbidden by royal edict and Aramis was a novice, he had to disappear and adopt a very low profile. He then challenged the man who had mistreated him to a duel and thanks to his newly learned fencing skills, killed him almost at once. For the next year, he studied fencing with the best swordsman in town to get his revenge. In The Three Musketeers, it is revealed that he became a musketeer because of a woman and his arrogance as a young man in training for the priesthood, he had the misfortune to be caught (innocently or not) reading to a young married woman and thrown out of her house. He is portrayed as constantly ambitious and unsatisfied as a musketeer, he yearns to become an abbé but as an abbé, he wishes for the life of the soldier. The fictional Aramis is loosely based on the historical musketeer Henri d'Aramitz.Īramis loves and courts women, which fits well with the opinions of the time regarding Jesuits and abbots. He and the other two musketeers, Athos and Porthos, are friends of the novels' protagonist, d'Artagnan. René d'Herblay, alias Aramis, is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845), and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later

Musketeers twenty years after