Anne de Breuil

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Anne de Breuil, better known as Milady de Winter, is a central antagonist in Alexandre Dumas’ novel "The Three Musketeers," famed for her beauty, cunning, and ruthless espionage.

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Label Occurrences
Anne de Breuil canonical 2
Countess de la Fère 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary villain
alsoKnownAs Lady de Winter
Milady de Winter
surface form: Milady

Milady de Winter
appearsIn Twenty Years After
backstory born Anne de Breuil and forced into a convent
condemned and branded as a criminal
married Athos under a false identity
characterIn The Three Musketeers
countryOfOrigin France
creator Alexandre Dumas
deathCause execution by beheading
employer Cardinal Richelieu
Duke of Buckingham
enemyOf Aramis
Athos
Constance Bonacieux
Duke of Buckingham
Porthos
d'Artagnan
surface form: d’Artagnan
executedBy Musketeers’ allies
firstPublicationOfWork 1844
genre historical adventure fiction
hasAttribute intelligent
manipulative
remorseless
seductive
hasMark fleur-de-lis branded on her shoulder
influenced later depictions of female spies in literature
kills Constance Bonacieux
languageOfWork French
literaryArchetype femme fatale
nationalityInFiction French
notableFor beauty
cunning
espionage
ruthlessness
occupation agent of Cardinal Richelieu
professional spy
relative John Felton
responsibleFor assassination of the Duke of Buckingham
roleInWork antagonist
assassin
spy
setInPeriod Thirty Years’ War era
King Louis XIII
surface form: reign of Louis XIII
spouse Athos
Lord de Winter

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Milady de Winter alsoKnownAs Anne de Breuil
Milady de Winter formerTitle Anne de Breuil
this entity surface form: Countess de la Fère
Charlotte Backson hasAlias Anne de Breuil