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Twenty Years After
Dumas, Alexandre
Published:
1845
Categories(s):
Fiction, Action & Adventure, Historical, Romance
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About Dumas:
Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24,1802 – December 5, 1870) was a French writer, best known for his numer-ous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of themost widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, in-cluding The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and The Manin the Iron Mask were serialized, and he also wrote plays and magazinearticles and was a prolific correspondent. Source: Wikipedia
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The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu.
In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Car-dinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on hishands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered with lettersand papers. Behind this figure glowed a vast fireplace alive with leapingflames; great logs of oak blazed and crackled on the polished brass and-irons whose flicker shone upon the superb habiliments of the lonely ten-ant of the room, which was illumined grandly by twin candelabra richwith wax-lights.Any one who happened at that moment to contemplate that red si-mar—the gorgeous robe of office—and the rich lace, or who gazed onthat pale brow, bent in anxious meditation, might, in the solitude of thatapartment, combined with the silence of the ante-chambers and themeasured paces of the guards upon the landing-place, have fancied thatthe shade of Cardinal Richelieu lingered still in his accustomed haunt.It was, alas! the ghost of former greatness. France enfeebled, the au-thority of her sovereign contemned, her nobles returning to their formerturbulence and insolence, her enemies within her frontiers—all provedthe great Richelieu no longer in existence.In truth, that the red simar which occupied the wonted place was hisno longer, was still more strikingly obvious from the isolation whichseemed, as we have observed, more appropriate to a phantom than a liv-ing creature—from the corridors deserted by courtiers, and courtscrowded with guards—from that spirit of bitter ridicule, which, arisingfrom the streets below, penetrated through the very casements of theroom, which resounded with the murmurs of a whole city leaguedagainst the minister; as well as from the distant and incessant sounds of guns firing—let off, happily, without other end or aim, except to show tothe guards, the Swiss troops and the military who surrounded the PalaisRoyal, that the people were possessed of arms.
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Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas
The novel follows events in France during La Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War, leading up to the victory of ...
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