The Errors Made in the Excavation of the Possible Remains of D’Artagnan Compromise Their Identification

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The lack of care with which the possible skeleton of D’Artagnan, the famous head of the Musketeers of Louis XIII and Louis XIV of France, was excavated last March in a church in the Dutch city of Maastricht, may compromise the identification of the remains. The problem stems from the way in which Wim Dijkman, a former municipal archaeologist, carried out the work without permission of the City Council. He piled the bones touched with bare hands …