Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras [SEP] place of birth
Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras
Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras (1644, Montargis – 8 May 1712, Paris) was a French novelist, journalist, pamphleteer and memorialist. 
His abundant output includes short stories, gallant letters, tales of historical love affairs ("Les Intrigues amoureuses de la Cour de France", 1684), historical and political works, biographies and semi-fictional "memoirs" (in the first person; his prefaces often indicate that the works were composed from papers found after the subject's death
de Rochefort") written in 1678 by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras. Courtilz de Sandras also wrote "Mémoires de M. d'Artagnan" (1700). Dumas combined the two, replacing an aristocrat named Rosnay from the d'Artagnan story with the Comte de Rochefort.
- A thug nicknamed Rochefort plays the role in the book "The Club Dumas" by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
- Rochefort is the narrator and protagonist of Mary Gentle's novel "".
- Rochefort appears in Jason Sæterøy's 2008 graphic novel "