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Rival versions
19 April 2025 08:36 pmI happened to notice another odd inconsistency between the final pages of the English and French versions of "The Three Musketeers". The French version states that à la suite d'un voyage qu'il fit en Touraine, [Athos] quitta aussi la service sous prétexte qu'il venait de recueillir un petit héritage en Rousillon, but my English translation renders this as "after a journey to Rousillon, [Athos] also left the service, under pretext of having succeeded to a small patrimony in the Blaisois". Which is basically the opposite -- and Rousillon is situated nowhere near the Touraine region, so where was Athos going at the time?
( Contradictory texts )
I had always assumed the 'pretext' was the claim of an inheritance and that he was actually returning to take up his true identity in his ancestral estates, but from what is said in "Twenty Years After" (je lui ai substitué la terre de Bragelonne, que je tiens d’héritage, laquelle lui donne le titre de vicomte et dix mille livres de rente), Athos genuinely did inherit this land -- presumably at this date -- and the title belonging to it. Even though he still uses his former title of La Fère, he apparently never returned there.
But while looking (in vain) for clarification on this point I happened to stumble across somebody else's fanfiction page. This turned out to be about a convoluted and ambitious -- although it failed to enthuse me -- epic that I had already seen on AO3, but I was tickled to discover that the authors shared my views on Oliver Reed (although not on Van Heflin, whom I remember finding a conscious disappointment). And not only that, but had actually *heard* of (and loved) the Russian version :-)
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( Contradictory texts )
I had always assumed the 'pretext' was the claim of an inheritance and that he was actually returning to take up his true identity in his ancestral estates, but from what is said in "Twenty Years After" (je lui ai substitué la terre de Bragelonne, que je tiens d’héritage, laquelle lui donne le titre de vicomte et dix mille livres de rente), Athos genuinely did inherit this land -- presumably at this date -- and the title belonging to it. Even though he still uses his former title of La Fère, he apparently never returned there.
But while looking (in vain) for clarification on this point I happened to stumble across somebody else's fanfiction page. This turned out to be about a convoluted and ambitious -- although it failed to enthuse me -- epic that I had already seen on AO3, but I was tickled to discover that the authors shared my views on Oliver Reed (although not on Van Heflin, whom I remember finding a conscious disappointment). And not only that, but had actually *heard* of (and loved) the Russian version :-)
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