More 'Dumas dates'

( Further historical incompatibility )

But the error is quite definitely that of Dumas, who refers multiple times to the mother of Louise in Twenty Years After as "Madame de Saint-Remy", and canon trumps history every time. In Dumas' universe, Louise (born August 1644) is already seven in 1648 and has a stepfather -- and the events of 1661 are stated to take place ten years after those of 1649, which is how Louise manages to be seven in the first book despite being historically seventeen at the time of the second :-D

Fic progress

I have now finished rough-typing the first chapter of "Little Gentlemen" and have reached the tweaking stage; it is looking quite good to me at the moment, which is probably due to the fact that it is now about six weeks since I wrote this chapter :-p ( Length and chapter titles )

I thought I had a translation for the next verse of the nautical ballad -- which really ought to be entitled something along the lines of "The Little Cabin-Boy" rather than "The Tale of the Tipsy Gunner"; I can only assume that it's supposed to be a story being told by the narrator in his cups-- but unfortunately I came up with the solution while walking home in the rain, which meant that I couldn't safely get the manuscript out. And when I came to write it down I found I had managed to forget what the word I'd come up with to end the third line was :-p

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