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Originally Posted by issybird
That's awful, but it's intended to be awful. I'll cite Seinfeld as a modern equivalent in the same vein. Dumas is mocking the Musketeers pretty explicitly. We're supposed to enjoy the ride at the same time as we realize that they're not all they're cracked up to be, or consider themselves to be.
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Dumas may have been mocking them, but at some point they became heroic icons, and there's a major disconnect between what they are on the page and what they are in popular imagination.