He is the last resource of the dying; he is the instrument of heavenly mercy. Sire, we supplicate you with clasped hands and bended knees, as the Deity is supplicated! Madame Fouquet has no longer any friends, no longer any support; she weeps in her poor deserted house, abandoned by all those who besieged its door in the hour of prosperity; she has neither credit nor hope left. At least, the unhappy wretch upon whom your anger falls receives from you, however culpable he may be, the daily bread which is moistened by his tears. As much afflicted, more destitute than her husband, Madame Fouquet- she who had the honor to receive your Majesty at her table; Madame Fouquet, the wife of the ancient Superintendent of your Majesty's Finances,- Madame Fouquet has no longer bread."
Reality v Fiction
There are many ways in which Dumas stretches the reality of not just the characters involved, but of the history of France itself to accommodate his telling of conspiracy and suspense. There was, as records of the Bastille corroborate, a masked prisoner whose identity was kept secret (MacDonald, 2005). However, it is unlikely that the prisoner was in fact a relative to the King, and especially not a twin, since "The arrival of an unexpected second child, allegedly nine hours after the first, could surely not have remained undetected in the goldfish bowl of the French court, and infant mortality rate was so high that the birth of a second son to Anne of Austria would have been more welcomed than feared (MacDonald, 2005, p. 30)."
Also, another important way in which Dumas stretched the truth was as concerns the life of the Three Muskaeteers (MacDonald, 2005). Dumas places the Muskateers in the service of Anne of Austria, in retrieving the diamond studs that she inappropriately gifted (MacDonald, 2005). "Only in Dumas' imagination were the Muskateers involved in this episode (which had actually occurred in 1625), saving the Queen's honor by replacing the missing diamonds; the real Athos, Aramis,...
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