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Athos was the Comte de La Fere - he took his nickname from a mountain in Greece which contained an all-male monastery. He was the one who married Lady de Winter before he discovered that she had been branded, as a criminal, with the Fleur de Lis.

Aramis took his name by spelling Simara (an ancient name for the devil) backwards. He was an intended priest, and later became one.

Porthos was the biggest of the Musketeers, noted more for his strength and joie de vivre than anything else. He finally married the rich widow he had been seeking.

D'artagnan was the boy from Gascony who finally became a musketeer near the end of the first book.

Their story began with "The Three Musketeers" and continued with "The Viscount de Bragellone", "Twenty Years After", and "The Man in the Iron Mask".
The Viscount was actually Raoul, the son of Athos, and the story was
as much about him as them.

"The Three Musketeers", besides being second only to the Bible in all-time book sales -first among fiction- is also the most-filmed story.
It is filmed in English approximately every twenty years, and never a decade goes by that it isn't filmed in other languages.

My favorites?
"The Three Musketeers" and "The Four Musketeers" from 1974; two halves of the same film, released a year apart. Oliver Reed as Athos, Richard Chamberlain as Aramis, Frank Finlay as Porthos,
Michael York as D'artagnan, Charlton Heston as Cardinal Richelieu, Racquel Welch as Constance, and Faye Dunaway as Lady de Winter.

"The Man in the Iron Mask" with Leonard di Caprio filmed recently. Leo plays a surprisingly good two-part role, and the musketeers were superb.
Jeremy Irons as Aramis, John Malkovich as Athos, Gabriel Byrne as D'artagnan, and Gerard Depardieu as Porthos. And all of them are superb!
Written and produced by the makers of "Braveheart", it was actually filmed at the Palace of Versailles.

A note of caution: "Twenty Years After" has the same stars as "The Four Musketeers" but I would not commend it to your attention: it was more about political correctness than being faithful to the original. A letdown.
The others are truly enjoyable.

Couldn't remember any reference to a poet, though. Perhaps Cyrano de Bergerac? His story was set in the same time-frame, when French gentlemen carried swords, and he was a guardsman.
He had an enormous nose, and he did write poetry for the others. He felt that no woman could love him, so he gained a reputation for personal bravery and poetic verse.