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"We'll read Dumas together, beginning with the Valois romances, and going straight along in the proper order. You'll learn a lot of history, as well as considerable French. Some of it is rather indiscreet but "
This is exactly what explains the gravitation toward dumas and zemstvos on the part of those parties which were losing more and more ground in the esteem of the revolutionary class. We shall meet with the same question, only on a larger scale, later, when we come to the Constituent Assembly.
The burghers who were so anxious to come now got frightened, and were most difficult to get into order. Dumas and the regulars did their utmost; but it was plain that the people were scared out of their lives lest the English should suddenly appear and attack them.
The greater part of the Canadians, to borrow the words of Dumas, "fled shamefully, crying 'Sauve qui peut!" Volley followed volley, and at the third Beaujeu dropped dead. Gage's two cannon were now brought to bear, on which the Indians, like the Canadians, gave way in confusion, but did not, like them, abandon the field.
Dumas christened Joan of Arc 'The Christ of France. Michelet in the fifth volume of his Histoire de France published in 1841, has written what will probably always be considered the best account of the Maid.
Pecksniff, Bill Sykes, Fagin, Mr. Murdstone, of Dickens' family they are all strong in impression, but wholly unreal; mere stage villains and caricatures. A villain who has no good traits, no hobbies of kindness and affection, is never born into the world; he is always created by grotesque novel writers. The villains of Dumas, Hugo, Balzac, Daudet are French.
Each of them has turned a compliment with pen or pencil, and you may see in a glass case on the parlor wall what Alexandre Dumas, Fils, thought of the landlady's nose, and how several painters measured her ankles. Of course you must make this excursion in good company, and I affirm that I was in the very best.
"H'm I thought so; yes France does not for no purpose possess the credit of being at the head of civilization." "But Mamma Caraman, when are we then to return to our subject, the count?" asked Clary, impatiently. "At once. Alexandre Dumas has written many romances, and one of the most interesting is 'The Count of Monte-Cristo."
She would like to have the role of Nathalie in Mont- reveche. She will be recommended to you by Girardin, Dumas and me. I saw her yesterday in Faustine, in which she showed talent. My opinion is that she has intelligence and that one could profit by her.
Whilst the prudential and economical tone of society starves the imagination, affronted Nature gets such indemnity as she may. The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds. Everything else pins it down, and men flee for redress to Byron, Scott, Disraeli, Dumas, Sand, Balzac, Dickens, Thackeray, and Reade.
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