2 July 2025

igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
On reading the French version of the earlier chapters (this being the rather tediously lengthy chunk of Fronde activity which the film omits entirely :-p) I noticed somewhat to my embarrassment that d'Artagnan explicitly *does* take Raoul 'home' with him to his lodgings on the rue Tiquetonne after the boy gets mixed up in the rioting, and leaves him shut up there in Madeleine's house for some time in order to keep him out of trouble. Since he does this without a moment's qualm almost immediately after Athos leaves for England, it clearly doesn't make much sense to have him embarrassed subsequently by the mere idea of lodging Raoul beneath his mistress' roof ('what would the Comte de La Fère have thought?')

So I probably need to go more explicitly for my original image, which was the idea that what d'Artagnan considers and rejects is the expedient of having Madeleine 'mother' the bereaved boy on his behalf ("I don't know how to give him what he needs now" -- but a woman's touch possibly might).

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