#Aure de Montalais

[redgitanako]

Iris et muguet

"What annoys you, my child, is that I laugh while you are writing; and what you are afraid of is that Madame de Saint-Remy, your mother, should come up here, as she does sometimes when we laugh too loud, that she should surprise us, and that she should see that enormous sheet of paper upon which, in a quarter of an hour, you have only traced the words Monsieur Raoul. Now, you are right, my dear Louise, because after these words, ‘Monsieur Raoul’, others may be put so significant and incendiary as to cause Madame Saint-Remy to burst out into fire and flames! Hein! is not that true now?—say.”

And Montalais redoubled her laughter and noisy provocations.

The fair girl at length became quite angry; she tore the sheet of paper on which, in fact, the words “Monsieur Raoul” were written in good characters; and crushing the paper in her trembling hands, she threw it out of the window."

[gellavonhamster]

from Volume II of The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas, illustrated by M. Sagymbayev and V. Shepilov, 1992

[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.

[gellavonhamster]

monthly media recap: april 2023

Local Woman Still Can't Shut Up About the D'Artagnan Romances (& other stuff)

read:

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas - the third and final of the d'Artagnan Romances, three huge ass volumes that are published as three separate books in English, I believe? I think this might actually be my favourite Musketeers book - I highly enjoyed both the court soap opera and the Man in the Iron Mask subplot, and really appreciated the Themes and Motifs re: the four musketeers being these mythical figures who eventually pass into myth to clear the way for different, younger and more ordinary people (rambled about it a little here). I spent three long novels finding the protagonists annoying only to cry my eyes out at their fate in the end (I'll admit I warmed up to them as they grew older, though - eventually it was less of "these fucking guys" and more of "my uncles who are the Worst"). Also, Aure de Montalais is now definitely my favourite girlie in these books after Constance and Milady - really fond of this little shit who schemes and plots but at the end of the day still cares

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid - an easy, engrossing read. I didn't care that much about the characters, but I enjoyed the atmosphere and the conflicting perspectives of the same events

+ progress on the Vulgate Cycle: read Part V and VI of Lancelot and started The Quest for the Holy Grail, also started reading The Terror by Arthur Machen

watched:

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) - I don't know shit about DnD, but just as a movie it's fun and cute! It is hilarious, but also treats the fantasy genre earnestly, and, thanks to that, is very heartfelt

Renfield (2023) - I hoped it'll be good, and it was! Wrote about it a bit here

Carnival Row (s3, 2019-2023) - very rushed, some plot twists looked like they came out of nowhere. Also that one character shouldn't have died, and the ending in general is pretty unsatisfying. Which is a pity, because the concept and aesthetics of this show are great

Les Trois Mousquetaires: D'Artagnan (2023) - the plot, while close to the first part of the book, was changed a bit, so that was interesting. Alas, this film forgets that the book's a comedy to a great extent and tries to be a Gritty Action Movie, which makes the result kinda dull. Also visually it's a disaster, another case of "oh, in the past everyone only wore brown and was dirty". I thought cinema has evolved past that? And the casting choices are. Choices. But at least d'Art & Constance were cute and Eva as Milady was blonde for like 5 minutes, lol

+ watching the TV adaptation of Daisy Jones & The Six and, obviously, Yellowjackets (wilderness baby AND the reunion of the older versions of the characters this week, holy SHIT)