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In The Three Musketeers Planchet is not a squire.
Planchet is a lackey.
Despite the modern usage of the term as a toady, in the 1600's it's an honorable profession.
The amusing thing is that this came up during gaming once.
A player was looking for a way to make his character fit in and I suggested the job of lackey.
He initially balked, but I got to explain that it was much sought after position.
A noble gentleman without a lackey is less than whole.
Batman and valet are equivalent.
If the Batman comics were set in the 1600s, Alfred would be Bruce Wayne's, and Batman's lackey. And if the Bertie Wooster books were set then, Jeeves would be Bertie's lackey---and still very much the brains of the operation. Am I correct?
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