I feel like this was true in the 90s and 00s, but since the advent of really big movies like Marvel, cinemas are less stingy with subtitles. Small ones may only do dubs, but in big cities, you’ll find places that always have subs. I don’t think I’ve ever noticed any egregious translation shitshow in the subs - maybe precisely because the industry is already used to actually translating something you could say in French. At most, back in the 90s you would always get attempts at heavily localized expressions that verge on cultural erasure (Thanksgivings episodes were always “family reunion”), not so much blatant nonsense, but now we’re more comfortable with just doing proper translations. Unless the publisher just doesn’t care to put any money in this show.

I’ve no idea what the state of subbed TV shows is right now, though. I’m sure TV still prefers to air dubs, but the relevant channels have the option of switching between subbed and dubbed, and then there was the whole DVD/BR industry that still always had subs, and AFAIK that has always worked well. Like, maybe 30 years ago your favorite show had DVDs with no English track, dub only, but that shit stopped. I’m not sure how that industry has been doing in the recent years of streaming taking over, and I don’t even know if streaming services in France have sub options or dub only…

Apart from the obvious king, queen, and cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin, only d’Artagnan was real among the main team. And he was in fact involved in a bunch of high profile shadowy events - although the real letters we have don’t actually detail what he did himself, beside being close to the king; we only know a few things, like how he was the one who arrested Nicolas Fouquet (another high profile guy in a scandal). You could write a dozen stories about the real guy in countless spy and bodyguard situations.

The names of the other musketeers are also real, but for people who were around over a decade before d’Artagnan, and there’s not much relevant about them beside being nobles and musketeers. They were just some guys with cool names that show up on some lists. There were also a few other people named d’Artagnan in the following years, but they’re also unrelated.

Dumas based his book on a memoir that was compiled by someone presumably close to him, but which was likely already heavily romanced.

Can’t make this up. Russia thinks the rest of the world is as stupid, braindead and as brainwashed as Russians and Americans.

Each of these statements is directed at a different propaganda network, who will quote only one of them. The targets of these networks will never see all 3 statements, and all think that Russia is doing what they want.