Question:
Name pronunciation's from Dumas's THE THREE MUSKETEERS?
newsiesno1
2007-09-07 19:09:19 UTC
I would really appreciate it if anyone out there could help me pronounce any of these names from alexandre Dumas's THE THREE MUSKETEERS... especially Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and D'Artagnan...
For the former three, does one pronounce the "s" at the end of their names? One of the only things I know about French is that one does not usually pronounce the "s" at the end of a word... are these names the exception?
Thank you!

D'Artagnan
Athos
Porthos
Aramis
Planchet
Grimaud
Mousqueton
Bazin
Milady de Winter
Cardinal Richelieu
Comte de Rochefort
Louis XIII of France
M. de Tréville
Constance Bonacieux
Monsieur Bonacieux
Queen Anne of Austria
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham)
Seven answers:
redcarpetmassacrefoe
2007-09-07 19:59:03 UTC
I've always heard the S pronounced in Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.



D'Artagnan - typically pronounced as Dart an yan. In French the apostrophe signals a slight pause.



Planchet - Is pronounced exactly like it's spelled Plan chet



Grimaud - Gree mode



Mousqueton - Moosk tawn



Bazin - Baz een



Milady de Winter - is also exactly like it's spelled



Cardinal Richelieu - Reesh loo



Comte de Rochefort:



Comte - the beginning is like starting to say the word computer but with a T at the end. COMPT.



de - The second part is kind of hard to describe, I can't think of an equivalent in English maybe someone can help me out with that. It's kind of like say duh, only really short. Where an american would draw out the U sound, in French it's clipped and very short. Ah! When you say your ABC's? Say de like you would pronounce the letter D.



Rochefort - Roesh fort (the first syllable has a long o, like Oprah)



Louis - Loo ee the fourteenth of France



M. de Treville:



M - stands for Madame and is pronounced like it's spelled, the E is silent.



de - same as before



Treville - sorry, I don't know how to do the accent grave (which is the little mark over the E) but it's pronounced

Tray veel



Constance Bonaceiux - Bawn ah sew (?)

Monsier Bonaceiux - Muh see yer Bawn ah sew

(I'm sketchy on the last name for those two)



Queen Anne of Austria is as spelled



George Villiers:



George - Make an almost Z sound for the first G and then pronounce the second G like J.



Villiers - Vill ee yers



Does that help?
anonymous
2016-12-14 21:58:42 UTC
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Dar tain yawn. It's said really fast. God Bless!!
anonymous
2007-09-07 19:38:38 UTC
Dar tan yun

Eh thos

Poor thos

Air a miss
Samantha
2016-03-13 02:59:37 UTC
Dar-tan-yun Learned that in English when we read the same book.
Trixie
2007-09-07 19:44:49 UTC
yes you pronounce the s after Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
BABY GURL
2007-09-07 19:36:51 UTC
sorry im confused just by your question


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