Alexandre Dumas considered "
the flight to Varennes
" of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and the Dauphin for "
the most important fact of the French Revolution, and even of the history of France
".
The author of The
Three Musketeers
will turn it into
La Route de Varennes
which looks more like a report enriched with testimonies than his classic historical novels.
The original manuscript written in 1856, recently found in Athens by the expert Dimitri Joannidès, will be auctioned on Saturday September 26 by the Maison Fauve Paris.
It is estimated between 60,000 and 80,000 euros.
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The Three Musketeers
: the novel that made the glory of Alexandre Dumas
This first autograph version of
La Route de Varennes
dated July 24, 1856, in which only two chapters are missing, is bound in brown leather.
It is addressed to Ioannis Philémon director of the newspaper Aion and was published in the weekly "
Le Monte-Cristo
" from January 28 to April 22, 1858.
A historic road movie
Such a happy superstition Alexandre Dumas, who was born on July 24, 1802, will specify in the notes of his newspaper
Le Monte-Cristo
of April 25, 1862 on page 267, the exact day of the beginning of the writing of his work: “
My album my trip, which has since been found, gave me the precise date, and luck made my trip the anniversary of the royal trip.
"
As a reporter he decided to follow himself the steps of the Royal flight to Varennes.
Hour by hour, like a historic road movie, in
La Route de Varennes,
it brings to life
that fateful night from June 20 to 21, 1791 during which Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, the Dauphin, Madame Royale and Madame Elisabeth escaped from the Palais des Tuileries in an attempt to join royalist emigres gathered in Montmédy in Lorraine.
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Lover of detail and the anecdote that gives him all his salt, writing in the style of a modern journalist, and as for the region of Naples that he described with verve in
Le Corricolo
, Alexandre Dumas will share here also with his readers in
La route de Varennes
the good addresses of inns suggested by his friend ... Victor Hugo.
The sale of the manuscript La route de Varennes by Alexandre Dumas will take place at 2 p.m. at Fauve Paris at 49 rue Saint-Sabin 75011 Paris.
La Nuit de Varennes
by Ettore Scola, in 1982, with Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel, Jean-Louis Barrault ...
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