Crossword-Solution: SANDRAS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Some have thought the three letters stood for Comte de Riviere, others for Comte de Rochefort, whose ‘Memoires’ compiled by Sandras de Courtilz supply these initials.

Dumas got much of his initial material from a book written by a soldier, Courtilz de Sandras, who supplemented his income by writing historical fictions.

Dumas never, however, read beyond the first volume of Sandras’s work, and vastly altered the material he did read, making it uniquely his own.

The character of Milady also comes from Sandras’s writings, wherein D’Artagnan encounters a mysterious English noblewoman known only as Miledi.

The tequila, that Sandras or Cassandras, or whomever it had beeen At the moment of malevolently blessing our heated and Maddening consumption, was what we left Our wives for; and then hardened ourselves on The springless cushions of the sofas of our friends Whom we eventually forgot the names of: The wetness of human experience that we Mongoled, And felt the bladed emptiness Of stomachs that could not consume food On mornings after.