#the vicomte de bragelonne

[widevibratobitch]

screaming crying shaking throwing up committing atrocities clawing at my chest cursing former bestie by flicking blood into his face leading my best friend of forty years to his death weeping for the very first time in my life etc etc

[iphigeniarising]

The ways Dumas comes up with to describe Monsieur and the Chevalier de Lorraine’s relationship without outright saying it are so funny.

[highfunctioningflailgirl]

“The ‘Dumas touch’ is reality. It means not just dash, suspense, and unflagging invention […] He is unmistakeable, because readers for a century and a half have felt the power of the irresistible personality that lies behind his tales, the generous spirit of the man with his contagious lust for life, his verve and perennial good humour. We admire Balzac. We may revere Beaudelaire and Flaubert. But we care about Dumas.”

David Coward, in the introduction to The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

[sugarplumfuckwit]

Mousqueton is the most Character ever. When we first meet him, Porthos made him change his name from Boniface to Mousqueton. He learned to lasso wine bottles from a Portuguese man. His father was a half Protestant half catholic highwayman. There’s no limit to how fat he can get. He and Porthos divide each week into a day for socializing, a day for scientific exploration, a day for shepherding, a day for homoerotic wrestling and a day for hunting. And he’s only in the series for like 50 pages.

[ravravix]

✨M. de Lorraine’s Jealousy✨

The Duc d’Orléans uttered a cry of delight on perceiving the Chevalier de Lorraine. “This is fortunate, indeed,” he said; “by what happy chance do I see you? Had you indeed disappeared, as every one assured me?”

“Yes, monseigneur.”

“A caprice?”

„Le vicomte de Bragelonne” - A. Dumas

[gellavonhamster]

...she was charming when she laughed, beautiful when she became serious; but, let us hasten to say, she was more frequently charming than beautiful.

aure de montalais, the vicomte of bragelonne by alexandre dumas.

[ougonnotaiyou]

Here are my Three Musketeers bookmarks.

Left to right:

1. Athos, “The Musketeers” (BBC TV series) version played by Tom Burke. A gift for @ja87.

2. Athos, the version from my imagination based on the books of Dumas. A present for a person who doesn’t have an account here.

3. Aramis as the cunning bishop of Vannes, my own version based on the books. A gift for myself. :)

[artificial-librarian]

Evil twin fix-it RPF

[jaimelire-france]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Je suis né gentilhomme, de bonne maison. Le nom de d'Artagnan était déjà connu quand je vins au monde.

Courtilz de Sandras, 1701.

Charles Ogier de Batz was born around 1612 in Castelmore near Lupiac in Gascony. He joined the company of musketeers around 1633, taking his mother's name, d'Artagnan, and the title of count. The historical d'Artagnan, the one originally portrayed by Courtilz de Sandras and the one more famously inspired by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet (Maquet was Dumas closest collaborator and never got the proper credit) have a few things in common. Both the de Sandras and Dumas versions of the real d’Artagnan were cadets from Gascony, who went to Paris to 'take up service' and became courageous and loyal musketeers to the king.

In 1646, the musketeers were dismissed and d'Artagnan entered Mazarin's service as one of his "ordinary gentlemen". His loyalty to the minister and the king during the troubles of the Fronde earned him a number of delicate missions, which revealed his tact and humanity, as well as rewards, such as the position of captain of the King's little dogs hunting deer. When the musketeers were reconstituted, d’Artagnan became a lieutenant in the first company of musketeers (1665), he soon became its captain-lieutenant (1667). It was said that this was the finest position in the kingdom, and D'Artagnan fulfilled it marvellously. His company soon became a model company, as brilliant as it was well trained, and the king congratulated him on several occasions.

It was as captain of the musketeers that d'Artagnan took part in the 1667 campaign in Flanders, with the rank of cavalry brigadier. He was part of Turenne's army, which besieged and captured Lille, and was appointed governor of that city. He was still there in 1672 when the Dutch war broke out. His so-called Memoirs say very little about this episode in his career. Nevertheless, he played an important role in the capital of French Flanders. It was he who had Vauban's plans for the new fortifications of the city carried out.

Dumas and Maquet, somewhat taking artistic licence (see the end of the Vicomte de Bragelonne) portraying d'Artagnan as commanding an army corps in front of the siege of Maastricht. It was there on the battlefield, shortly before the action in which he took part, he received a letter from Colbert, in which the minister announced that the king had just made him Marshal of France. But this is nonsense. The king did not need Colbert's pen to inform the captain of his musketeers of his decision regarding such a great reward; Louis XIV was in command in person before Maastricht, and he could have said to d'Artagnan: "Monsieur, je vous fais maréchal”. But he never said it. D'Artagnan was not yet a lieutenant-general; he only held the rank of marshal of the King's camps and armies.

In any case on 25 June 1673 Captain-Lieutenant d’Artagnan was killed at the siege of Maastricht. Siege warfare could be as dangerous as battlefield combat. As it was, d'Artagnan was not on duty that day, but events shifted, requiring his presence. He was hit in the throat by a stray bullet, which killed him.

[widevibratobitch]

what the fuck dumas

[iphigeniarising]

If number of books read in a month is important to you, i recommend not choosing to read multiple books that are over 700 pages long at once.

[mordioux]

i think it's fun that porthos seems to be the youngest musketeer in the new movies and athos looks way older than the other two. what i've usually seen when the three of them don't look more or less the same age is that they go porthos -> athos -> aramis and these new ones look like athos -> aramis -> porthos which i hadn't seen before and could mean an interesting change in friendship dynamics between them

In the beginning of book they're all between 18-28- d' Artagnan being the youngest, of course- Athos in his late 20s, then Aramis around 22 and Porthos between 23-25. Athos was always the older ore but not as old as the Bourboulon film. It's like this Athos leapt through time and became the Twenty Years After or even Vicomte de Bragelonne Athos 🤔

I definitely liked Pio Marmaï's Porthos tho, and I kinda liked what they did with his character. And I think that irl he's about 5 years older than François Civil who plays d'Artagnan 😅

[sugarplumfuckwit]

Guys guys guys. Have you fucking read this shit? Alexandre Dumas is off his ass and I love it.

[ravravix]

heaad full Chevalier de Lorraine looking at the Philippe d'Orleans

✨Le vicomte de Bragelonne✨

[madame-fouquet]

So I’ve been LOVING the new english translations of The d’Artagnan Romances (Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, Le Vicomte de Bragelonne) and while waiting for his edition of the next book in the Ten Years Later chunk I found out that he is releasing the chapters serially online RIGHT NOW! https://musketeerscycle.substack.com/p/court-of-daggers

Like you can be actively reading the story as a weekly serial the way it was originally published!!! This is such a cool flippin thing for them to be doing and I’m even more hyped than I already was!