Capaldi will play the shadowy Cardinal Richelieu in The Musketeers, with Skins actor Luke Pasqualino as D'Artagnan.

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D'Artagnan gets its foie gras from Hudson Valley Foie Gras, two hours north of New York City, which produces about 375, 000 pounds of the delicacy a year.

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When Martha Stewart asked the founder of gourmet meat purveyor D'Artagnan about the hearty French dish of duck confit, garlic sausages and tarbais beans, Ariane Daguin responded in a thick Gascon accent that imparted culinary authority.

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It recounts the adventures of a young, skilled fighter from rural Gascony called D'Artagnan, who dreams of joining the Musketeers of the Guard and meets the trio on a journey to right the wrong of his father's death.

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They shoot a lot of movies there: My heart throbbed when we saw the 13th-century kitchen into which Sophie Marceau rode on horseback in La Fille de d'Artagnan, but it could have been the onset of arteriosclerosis from that day's ration of goose fat.

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