Joan of Naples (Annotated)
By Alexandre Dumas and Muhammad Humza
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It's the story of a series of royal atrocities. The wide divide between the masses and the elite, the masses' frustration and aggravation, the authorities' heedlessness, and the repercussions are all represented. It's a moving story that emphasises the divide between the two classes.
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), one of the most universally read French authors, is best known for his extravagantly adventurous historical novels. As a young man, Dumas emerged as a successful playwright and had considerable involvement in the Parisian theater scene. It was his swashbuckling historical novels that brought worldwide fame to Dumas. Among his most loved works are The Three Musketeers (1844), and The Count of Monte Cristo (1846). He wrote more than 250 books, both Fiction and Non-Fiction, during his lifetime.
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Joan of Naples (Annotated) - Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas Biography
Born: July 24, 1802
Soissons, France
Died: December 5, 1870
Puys, France
French creator, writer, and author
Alexandre Dumas, the French creator of many plays, famous sentiments, and verifiable books, composed The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
Early life
Alexandre Dumas was brought into the world on July 24, 1802, close to Soissons, France, the child of a Creole general of the French Revolutionary armed forces. His granddad was from an honorable family, and his grandma had been a Dominican slave. Dumas' dad kicked the bucket when he was four years of age, leaving the family with very little cash. Dumas was not an awesome understudy, but rather his penmanship was discernibly wonderful, and he examined to fill in as a public accountant (a public official who observes the marking of significant reports and makes them official). He likewise started composing melodic comedies and afterward authentic plays in cooperation (cooperating with others) with a writer companion named Adolphe de Leuven. Verifiable subjects, as well as his capacity to team up, were to be long-lasting components of Dumas' work during his profession.
Dumas then looking for employment as a secretary to the Duke of Orléans (later King Louis Philippe, 1773-1850) in Paris, France. He read and went to the theater however much he could during his downtime. He was enormously affected by crafted by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and composed his most memorable plays in 1825 and 1826. Others followed, with Henri III et sa cour (1829) bringing him extraordinary achievement and ubiquity. The upset of 1830 dialed back Dumas' composition, and he turned into a solid ally of the Marquis de Lafayette. His political exercises were seen horribly by the new lord, his previous chief, and he had to leave France for a period. A progression of entertaining travel guides came about because of this time of exile.
His Fiction
At the point when Dumas got back to Paris, he started composing another series of authentic plays. By 1851 he had composed alone, or in a joint effort with others, in excess of twenty plays. He likewise started composing fiction right now, first brief tales and afterward books. In a joint effort with Auguste Maquet he composed Les Trois Mousquetaires (1844; The Three Musketeers ), Vingt Ans après (1845; Twenty Years After ), and Le Vicomte de Bragelonne (1850). Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1846; The Count of Monte Cristo ) was likewise a result of this period.
Dumas worked with numerous teammates who assisted him with the diagrams of his sentiments. The size of his fiction processing plant
has frequently been misrepresented. Despite the fact that essentially 1,000 works were distributed under his own name, most were because of his own diligent effort and astonishing creative mind. Dumas' works were gotten with energy by his reliable perusers, and he brought in a ton of cash. He would never make to the point of staying aware of his ways of managing money, notwithstanding. Among his concerns was his bequest of Monte-Cristo in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, which pulled in numerous holders on and female admirers who Dumas wound up supporting.
Later life
Dumas, who had never changed his political conclusions, was satisfied by the Revolution of 1848 and even ran as a contender for the Assembly. In 1850 the Theâtre-Historique, which he had established to introduce his plays, fizzled. After Napoleon III (1808-1873) took power in 1852, Dumas went to Brussels, Belgium, where his secretary figured out how to fix his issues to a certain extent. Here he kept on composing continually.
In 1853 Dumas got back to Paris and started the day to day paper Le Mousquetaire, which was given to workmanship and writing. The paper made due until 1857, and Dumas then distributed the week by week paper Monte-Cristo. This thusly collapsed following three years. In 1860 he was named guardian of exhibition halls in Naples, Italy. Subsequent to staying there for a long time, he got back to Paris, where he got himself somewhere down owing debtors and consistently pursued by obligation gatherers. He additionally had numerous ladies companions who expected — and got — costly gifts from him.
Endeavoring to pay his obligations, Dumas delivered various works of lower quality, among them Madame de Chamblay (1863) and Les Mohicans de Paris (1864), which were not exceptionally fruitful. His miserable last years were relaxed by the presence of his child, Alexandre, and his girl, Madame Petel. (The senior Alexandre Dumas is for the most part called Dumas père to recognize him from his child, known as Dumas fils, who was additionally a writer and author.) Dumas père passed on in neediness on December 5, 1870.
Table of Contents
Title
About
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter
1
In the night of the 15th of January 1343, while the inhabitants of Naples lay wrapped in peaceful slumber, they were suddenly awakened by the bells of the three hundred churches that this thrice blessed capital contains. In the midst of the disturbance caused by so rude a call the first bought in the mind of all was that the town was on fire, or that the army of some enemy had mysteriously landed under cover of night and could put the citizens to the edge of the sword. But the doleful, intermittent sounds of all these fills, which disturbed the silence at regular and distant intervals, were an invitation to the faithful pray for a passing soul, and it was soon evident that no disaster threatened the town, but that the king alone was in danger.
Indeed, it had been plain for several days past that the greatest uneasiness prevailed in Castel Nuovo; the officers of the crown were assembled regularly twice a day, and persons of importance, whose right it was to make their way into the king's apartments, came out evidently bowed down with grief. But although the king's death was regarded as a misfortune that nothing could avert, yet the whole town, on learning for certain of the approach of his last hour, was affected with a sincere grief, easily understood when one learns that the man about to die, after a reign of thirty-three years, eight months, and a few days, was Robert of Anjou, the most wise, just, and glorious king who had ever sat on the throne of Sicily. And so he carried with him to the tomb the eulogies and regrets of all his subjects.
Soldiers would speak with enthusiasm of the long wars he had waged with Frederic and Peter of Aragon, against Henry VII and Louis of Bavaria; and felt their hearts beat high, remembering the glories of campaigns in Lombardy and Tuscany; priests would gratefully extol his constant defence of the papacy against Ghibelline attacks, and the founding of convents, hospitals, and churches throughout his kingdom; in the world of letters he was regarded as the most learned king in Christendom; Petrarch, indeed, would receive the poet's crown from no other hand, and had spent three consecutive days answering all the questions that Robert had deigned to ask him on every topic of human knowledge. The men of law, astonished by the wisdom of those laws which now enriched the Neapolitan code, had dubbed him the Solomon of their day; the nobles applauded him for protecting their ancient privileges, and the people were eloquent of his clemency, piety, and mildness. In a word, priests and soldiers, philosophers and poets, nobles and peasants, trembled when they thought that the government was to fall into the hands of a foreigner and of a young girl, recalling those words of Robert, who, as he followed in the funeral train of Charles, his only son, turned as he reached the threshold of the church and sobbingly exclaimed to his barons about him, This day the crown has fallen from my head: alas for me! alas for you!
Now that the bells were ringing for the dying moments of the good king, every mind was full of these prophetic words: women prayed fervently to God; men from all parts of the town bent their steps towards the royal palace to get the earliest and most authentic news, and after waiting some moments, passed in exchanging sad reflections, were obliged to return as they had come, since nothing that went on in the privacy of the family found its way outside—the castle was plunged in complete darkness, the drawbridge was raised as usual, and the guards were at their post.
Yet if our readers care to be present at the death of the nephew of Saint Louis and the grandson of Charles of Anjou, we may conduct them into the chamber of the dying man. An alabaster lamp suspended from the ceiling serves to light the vast and sombre room, with walls draped in black velvet sewn with golden fleur-de-lys. Near the wall which faces the two entrance doors that at this moment are both shut close, there stands beneath a brocaded canopy an ebony bed, supported on four twisted columns carved with symbolic figures. The king, after a struggle with a violent paroxysm, has fallen swooning in the arms of his confessor and his doctor, who each hold one of his dying hands, feeling his pulse anxiously and exchanging looks of intelligence. At the foot of the bed stands a woman about fifty years of age, her hands clasped, her eyes raised to heaven, in an attitude of resigned grief: this woman is the queen, No tears dim her eyes: her sunken cheek has that waxen yellow tinge that one sees on the bodies of saints preserved by miracle. In her look is that mingling of calm and suffering that points to a soul at once tried by sorrow and imbued with religion. After the lapse of an hour, while no movement had disturbed the profound silence which reigned about the bed of death, the king trembled slightly; opened his eyes, and endeavoured feebly to raise his head. They thanking the physician and priest with a smile, who had both hastened to arrange his pillows, he begged the queen to come near, and told her in a low voice that he would speak with her a moment alone. The doctor and confessor retired, deeply bowing, and the king followed them with his eyes up to the moment when one of the doors closed behind them. He passed his hand across his brow, as though seeking to collect his thoughts, and rallying all his forces for the supreme effort, pronounced these words:
What I must say to you, Sancha, has no concern with those two good persons who were here a moment ago: their task is ended. One has done all for my body that human science could teach him, and all that has come of it is that my death is yet a little deferred; the other has now absolved me of all my sins, and assured me of God's forgiveness, yet cannot keep from me those dread apparitions which in this terrible hour arise before me. Twice have you seen me battling with a superhuman horror. My brow has been bathed in sweat, my limbs rigid, my cries have been stifled by a hand of iron. Has God permitted the Evil Spirit to tempt me? Is this remorse in phantom shape? These two conflicts I have suffered have so subdued my strength that I can never endure a third. Listen then, my Sandra, for I have instructions to give you on which perhaps the safety of my soul depends.
My lord and my master,
said the queen in the most gentle accents of submission, "I am ready to listen to your orders; and should it be that God, in the hidden