Comment on A Cabal of Paris

  1. Deiseach (Guest) on Chapter 2 Sun 30 Dec 2018 02:14AM UTC

    Their dramas with women are only interesting in so far as they accentuate how stable their relationship is WITH EACH OTHER.

    I don't know if this was intentional or not, or if a 19th century French reader would have taken this meaning or not, but Dumas puts this in the mouth of Athos:

    Are you not aware that we are never seen one without the others, and that we are called among the Musketeers and the Guards, at court and in the city, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, or the Three Inseparables?

    And I found by accident that in French les inséperables is a name for what in English are called "lovebirds" ;-)

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    1. ysande on Chapter 2 Sun 30 Dec 2018 02:29AM UTC

      Oh my god, that is the greatest thing! <3 and I love that even though d'Artagnan is the protagonist of the book he isn't mentioned in the title and when people think about the Three Musketeers he doesn't come to mind, because it's actually about the love fest between Athos, Porthos and Aramis <3

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      1. ElDiablito_SF on Chapter 2 Sun 30 Dec 2018 02:35AM UTC

        D'Artagnan whomst? LOL

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        1. Donna_Immaculata on Chapter 2 Sun 30 Dec 2018 01:57PM UTC

          It rings a bell... I seem to remember a fierce moustache

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    3. ElDiablito_SF on Chapter 2 Sun 30 Dec 2018 02:35AM UTC

      I'm really fucking embarrassed for all of them right now. And of course Alex had the Gay Disaster say this. *SMH*

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      1. Deiseach (Guest) on Chapter 2 Sun 30 Dec 2018 11:22AM UTC

        Can't you just hear the Cardinal's Guards saying "Oooh, here come the Lovebirds!" :-D

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        1. Donna_Immaculata on Chapter 2 Sun 30 Dec 2018 01:56PM UTC

          And this is how the duels happened :D

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          1. ElDiablito_SF on Chapter 2 Sun 30 Dec 2018 05:49PM UTC

            Now we know the truth: the Cardinal's guards were homophobic!

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            1. Donna_Immaculata on Chapter 2 Sun 30 Dec 2018 06:16PM UTC

              But of course. They're true evil.

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          3. Deiseach (Guest) on Chapter 2 Sun 30 Dec 2018 06:42PM UTC

            But of course! And why M. de Tréville did not forbid them fighting such duels and was so eager to hear that they had indeed beaten the Cardinal's men; after all, they had to defend their Manly Honour and the Honour of the Regiment.

            How dare those filthy Cardinalists besmirch the noble bonds of brotherly love that bind warriors! :-)

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      3. Donna_Immaculata on Chapter 2 Sun 30 Dec 2018 01:58PM UTC

        They Knew No Shame

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    5. Marie_Michon on Chapter 2 Sun 06 Jan 2019 11:56PM UTC

      And I found by accident that in French les inséperables is a name for what in English are called "lovebirds" ;-)

      I thought that this was known, as even those little parrot birds, Agapornis, are called "love birds" or "Inseparables" in many languages as well. XD

      But the French wording is maybe a little more ambiguous towards the friendship of the 3 overall than the English one...

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