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The original French text is available at La Biblioth que lectronique du Qu bec. Ange Pitou epubs air This book is the third in the Marie Antoinette series sequel of Le Collier de la Reine which describes the decline of the French monarchy As historical background the author describes the period dealt with is that of the weeks immediately preceding and succeeding the fall of the Bastille in 1789. Ange Pitou booklet In the beginning Dumas drew upon his boyhood s memories and undoubtedly some of his finest passages in the work are those which reveal to us the inhabitants and the life of the district of Villers Cotterets where he was born and its forest. 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Book Ange pitou hunter One of the things that can be annoying about reading Dumas especially when considering his longer series of books that follow the progress of a specific historical period and group of characters is that there are often large swathes of time that separate the volumes and important events that occur which are mentioned in passing in a oh yeah and while you were gone this happened kind of way I don t totally fault Dumas for this since he wanted to write about long ranging periods of the history of France and in order to do this in a completely continuous way would have made his already voluminous output unbelievably large and unwieldy Add to that the problem of reading in translation and the situation of abridgment which unfortunately can occur especially in some of his lesser known works and it can be than a bit frustrating In this case it has been six years since the last volume The Queen s Necklace and the last time we saw Gilbert was even earlier at the end of Memoirs of a Physician wherein he apparently took ship for America with Philip de Taverney Balsamo did drop some hints about Gilbert in The Queen s Necklace where he chastised Philip for leaving him for dead or maybe even killing him the implications were unclear but suddenly we have Gilbert locked in the bastille for his incendiary pamphlets apparently he is also the father of a fifteen year old boy currently going to school in Paris who used to be Pitou s foster brother So that s a bit of an information bomb Added to that is the fact that Gilbert in addition to being a political philosopher and practicing physician has also been the pupil of Balsamo Cagliostro at some point and displays to full effect his mesmeric abilities Seems to me that this probably could have made for an interesting volume in itself or at least a bit exposition from Balsamo on the subject in the last one but I guess Dumas was too busy to trouble himself with such things continuity doesn t seem to have always been his first concern. Ange pitout Dumas delivers on his usual combination of interesting characters fast paced action and excellent dialogue Ange Pitou himself is mildly interesting a lanky country bumpkin with just enough book learnin to sound like he understands what the revolutionaries are talking about even though he doesn t There is also some romantic tension that ties nicely into the political situation given that Pitou s object of adoration Catherine Billot only has eyes for one of the Charny boys a nobleman and brother in law of Andree de Taverney now the Countess de Charny oh the wonderfully tangled plot lines of Dumas P re Billot is a salt of the earth farmer of the gruff but lovable variety looking to level the field and bring equality to the people More interesting by far is Gilbert now a man of distinction and some influence far advanced from his previous position of pining unrequited lover to Andree and aspiring philosopher and revolutionary under the auspices of Jean Jacques Rousseau The King is still a feckless though well intentioned monarch on the eve of disaster and Marie Antoinette herself has become jaded by her unpopularity with the people and surrounded herself with a sort of anti court who are opposed to the moderate wishes of the king and is something much akin to the vain dragon lady of popular conception than her previous role of uncertain victim of circumstance Volume 1 ends of course on a cliffhanger as the newly freed Gilbert has just acquired the position of personal physician to the king and regained his stolen casket from Andree after displaying his mesmeric abilities Andree herself was on the verge of explaining her antipathy for Gilbert to the Queen and detailing the secret contained by the casket when the curtains were drawn I m looking forward to volume 2 9781434100283 Alexandre Dumas is one of my favorite authors I can t out his books down they are fun and keep you on the edge of your seat plus the time period they are all set in in my favorite 9781434100283 Classic Dumas weaving fiction into history with a touch of magic and court intrigue 9781434100283 Part 1 of Dumas classic book Not regarded as Dumas best work but very interesting story 9781434100283