Louise De La Vallière
1902
The middle movement of Dumas's great musketeer saga. This is where the adventure becomes tragedy, where the swords are sheathed but the wounds cut deeper than any blade. Ten years have passed since the Musketeers saved France. Now they are older, scattered, some in disgrace. But Louis XIV is consolidating power at Versailles, and old secrets won't stay buried. D'Artagnan, that tireless blade, finds himself caught between a king hungry for absolute power and the remnants of the old France. At the heart of the court burns the tender, doomed affair between the king and Louise de la Vallière, a woman of grace and vulnerability caught in the machinery of royal desire and political ambition. Colbert and Fouquet circle each other like wolves. The musketeers are drawn back into a world they thought they'd escaped. This is Dumas at his most ambitious: the adventure has grown up, become something richer and sadder. Honor collides with power. Loyalty becomes complicated. And one of literature's great heroes must learn that some battles cannot be won with a sword.
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“Dacă e vorba de spectacol, îmi place mai mult să privesc această îngrămădire de copaci negri, printre care scânteie ici-colo câte-o luminiță care trece ca un ochi înroșit, când deschis, când închis.””
— Alexandre Dumas
“Dragostea, vedeți, așa cum o înțeleg eu, e un sacrificiu necontenit, absolut, întreg; dar nu numai sacrificiul unuia dintre cei doi implicați în relația de prietenie. Ea înseamnă abnegația desăvârșită a două suflete care vor să se contopească într-unul singur.””
— Alexandre Dumas
“His pistol? But a man does not go to a boar-hunt with a pistol.””
— Alexandre Dumas
“one of those strong, ossified brains, which have no more room for a single idea, so fiercely does animal matter keep watch at the doors of intelligence, narrowly inspecting the contraband trade which might result from the introduction into the brain of a symptom of thought.””
— Alexandre Dumas
“You will live for me, as I will live for you.””
— Alexandre Dumas
“Iată și luminișul, ca o pată în mijlocul pădurii. Lumina slabă ce coboară din stele, așa cum ar spune Corneille, se strânge mănunchi în acel loc; pădurea ne înconjoară de toate părțile cu străjile ei neclintite.””
— Alexandre Dumas
“Nici unul nici altul însă nu putea rosti o vorbă; părul unuia atingea fruntea celuilalt, răsuflarea amândurora se făcuse una, mâinile le ardeau strâns înlănțuite.””
— Alexandre Dumas
“a man can only console himself for a lost affection by the discovery of a new one.””
— Alexandre Dumas
“Friendships live and thrive upon a system of reciprocal benefits.””
— Alexandre Dumas
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