René d'Herblay, alias Aramis, is a member of The Three Musketeers. He and the other two musketeers, Athos and Porthos, are friends of the novels' protagonist, D'Artagnan.

Aramis loves and courts women, which fits well with the opinions of the time regarding Jesuits and abbots. He is portrayed as constantly ambitious and unsatisfied; as a musketeer, he yearns to become an abbé; but as an abbé, he wishes for the life of the soldier. In The Three Musketeers, it is revealed that he became a musketeer because of a woman and his arrogance; as a young man in training for the priesthood, he had the misfortune to be caught (innocently or not) reading to a young married woman and thrown out of her house.

For the next year, he studied fencing with the best swordsman in town to get his revenge. He then challenged the man who had mistreated him to a duel and thanks to his newly learned fencing skills, killed him almost at once. Because duels were forbidden by royal edict and Aramis was a novice, he had to disappear and adopt a very low profile. He enlisted in the Musketeers under the assumed name of "Aramis". There he met Athos, Porthos and later d'Artagnan. Together, they worked to protect the king and to keep the queen's affair with the Duke of Buckingham from being revealed by Cardinal Richelieu.

Aramis meets with great success, thanks to his Machiavellian plans and his audacity. He sees every victory as a step to climb to even greater power. Eventually, he is named Superior General of the Jesuits, which is precisely what saves his life at the end of Le Vicomte De Bragelonne, after he is betrayed by Nicolas Fouquet.

Despite his ruthless personal ambition, Aramis is an extremely loyal friend: in fact, his only mistakes come when he refuses to harm or offend his friends. In ''Twenty Years After'', he follows Athos's pleas to spare the life of the villain Mordaunt, and in ''Le Vicomte De Bragelonn''e, he refuses to suppress d'Artagnan's discovery of the truth about Belle-Île-en-Mer. Aramis even tells his friend Porthos the true identity of the Man in the Iron Mask, despite fearing that this will lead Porthos to kill him (Aramis). Friendship is so important to Aramis that, at the end of ''Le Vicomte De Bragelonne'', it is strongly implied that he cries - for the first and only time in his life - after causing the death of one of his friends.

*The Three Musketeers (1844)
*Twenty Years After (1845)
*The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (1847)

* The Three Musketeers (1845)
* La Jeunesse des mousquetaires (1849)
* Le Prisonnier de la Bastille, fin des mousquetaires (1861)
* The Three Musketeers (1898)

*Black Cat Mystery #49
*Jackpot Comics #6
*Kid Eternity #4
*More Fun Comics #13, 15-17, 19
*It Really Happened #9

*The Three Musketeers (1903)
*La maschera di ferro (1909)
*The Three Musketeers: Part 1 and Part 2 (1911)
*The Three Musketeers (1914)
*The Three Musketeers (1916)
*A Modern Musketeer (1917)
*Les Trois Mousquetaires(1921)
*The Three Musketeers (1921)
*The Iron Mask (1929 film)

*The Three Musketeers (1933 - 12 episodes)

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramis Wikipedia]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/aramis/4005-65431/forums/ ComicVine]
*[https://fictional-characters-in-media.fandom.com/wiki/Aramis Fictional Characters in Media Wiki]

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