{"id":658,"date":"2017-07-16T16:06:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T15:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=658"},"modified":"2017-08-04T07:24:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T06:24:58","slug":"dartagnan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/16\/dartagnan\/","title":{"rendered":"D&rsquo;Artagnan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody who has visited Auch will know that we have a statue of one of Alexandre DUMAS creations <strong>d&rsquo;Artagnan<\/strong>. While the stories of \u00ab\u00a0<i>Les Trois\u00a0Mousquetaires<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb are fictional, DUMAS was inspired by the memoires of\u00a0<b>Charles de Batz de Castelmore <\/b>(born in Lupiac, Gers around 1611,) on which to base his fictional personage.<\/p>\n<p>Auch has recently spent a large sum (<em>of predominantly American money&#8230;<\/em>) to restore the Monumental Staircase which leads from the lower town (Basse ville) to the upper town (Haut ville) where the statue of d&rsquo;Artagnan can be found on the first landing (climbing up from the lower town)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-1B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-669\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-1B-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-1B-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-1B-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-1B-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-1B.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-2B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-2B-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-2B-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-2B-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-2B-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-2B.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-3B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-671\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-3B-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-3B-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-3B-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-3B-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-3B.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Dartagnan-1B.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>On the fourth landing (from the bottom) can be found the memorial for the tragic flooding that occurred in Auch in 1977 where six people died. Designed by Jaume PLENSA \u00ab\u00a0<i>L&rsquo;Observatoire du temps\u00a0\u00bb <\/i>\u00a0is\u00a0interestingly one of his earliest commercial works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Plensa-1B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-672\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Plensa-1B-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Plensa-1B-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Plensa-1B-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Plensa-1B-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Plensa-1B.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another of his sculptures \u00ab\u00a0<em>l&rsquo;Abri Impossible<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb is situated not far from the lower end of the monumental staircase, on the \u00a0banks of the Gers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody who has visited Auch will know that we have a statue of one of Alexandre DUMAS creations d&rsquo;Artagnan. While the stories of \u00ab\u00a0Les Trois\u00a0Mousquetaires\u00a0\u00bb are fictional, DUMAS was inspired by the memoires of\u00a0Charles de Batz de Castelmore (born in Lupiac, Gers around 1611,) on which to base his fictional personage. Auch has recently spent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/16\/dartagnan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;D&rsquo;Artagnan&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}