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Alexandre Dumas is well known for his swashbuckling tales of excitement and derring-do, like The Three Musketeers, but Parisians and Provincials is something entirely different.
On one level it is a gentle and romantic love story, on another, a reworking of the old town mouse/country ... Read review
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Advantages: Gently amusing, finely drawn characters Disadvantages: No swash and very little buckle!
...like The Three Musketeers, but Parisians and Provincials is something entirely different.
On one level it is a gentle and romantic love story, on another, a reworking of the old town mouse/country mouse fable. Most evident too is Dumas’ sense of irony and satire and his keen interest in class and race.
The novella is set in Paris and Villers-Cotterets, Dumas’ own birthplace, in the mid 19th Century. It was one of Dumas’ last pieces ... ...and The Three Musketeers, but Parisians and Provincials has its own brand of quiet charm. It is full of wry but gentle humour. The love story is sweet and old fashioned, with a hint of the Jane Austen’s about it.
Much of the social and political satire seems quite pointed when shown in relief by the more delicate humour and romance. It shows the gulf between Royalist and Republican, the nobility, the bourgeoisie and the lower classes, as well ...
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