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Originally Posted by issybird
I'll add that while Dumas' grandfather brought his father to France and freed him, he sold his mother and sisters when he left what is now Haiti.
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Yes, the novel drips with misogyny. No women in this novel get any respect. Dumas basically equates women with servants, and says they must be beaten to be trained properly:
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"This is serious," answered the three friends; "it is a family affair. It is with valets as with wives, they must be placed at once upon the footing in which you wish them to remain. Reflect upon it."
D'Artagnan did reflect, and resolved to thrash Planchet provisionally; which he did with the conscientiousness that D'Artagnan carried into everything.
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So, like grandfather, like father, like son ...