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Originally Posted by issybird
This makes sense. The constant dueling which the Crown and Cardinal was trying to contain has a modern echo in sports hooliganism. But I still think the portrayal of the Cardinal was inconsistent; the wrap-up had him a good guy but his attempts to undermine the Queen, for example, were antithetical to the good of the Crown and were part of Richelieu's own power grab.
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Yes, I agree about the inconsistency. He was definitely shown as being malevolent in the first part of the book. There was at one stage (to do with the diamonds) a suggestion that the Cardinal had been in love with the Queen, who wouldn't have anything to do with him, and presumably hell hath no fury like a Cardinal scorned.
You have to wonder about Dumas senior's feelings about his father, given that he sold the boy's mother and sisters when he left. That is unspeakable.