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To paraphrase the notice from the translator, The Celebrated Offences of Alexandre Dumas père had not been designed for children. The novelist has spared no vocabulary - has minced no words - to describe violent moments of violent times. In this, the 6th of the series, Dumas instructs the storyplot of Urbain Grandier, a Catholic priest, little recognized to the English-speaking world, but famous among French sound system; he was the target of a religous and politics conspiracy that began among his personal and politics enemies in the city of Loudon and concluded at the best levels of politics and religious electric power in the kingdom of France, with the immediate participation of Cardinal Richelieu and possibly of the king himself. Grandier was handsome; Grandier was magnetic; Grandier was highly attractive to women. He was also arrogant, vindictive, and bitterly exacting of every jot and tittle of his rights. These features ran him foul of the religious and politics bigwigs of the tiny, provincial town of Loudon. He made many foes; they made up their minds to kill the man, and kill him they have. They plotted to create the appearance of witchcraft on the loose by arranging for what would look like demonic possession among the list of nuns of the Ursuline convent at Loudon, in order that they could pin a demand of witchcraft on Grandier. However, after they turned their outdoors horses loose, that they had no choice but to drive them; what began as an individual vendetta turned into a devil's nightmare of a lurid witchhunt and trial. Though Dumas evidently needs Grandier's part, he is quite objective about how exactly Grandier, confronted with a noose strung up by his foes, cannot restrain himself from putting his head into it and grinning. Dumas shows evidently how his foes went to work with a will to do what has necessary from that point. In this level, he is less then novelist than the historian, but he brings all the information involved fully to life. He leaves us shaking our mind at the depths of murderous love and barbarous cruelty concealed under the face mask of religious fervor. Enjoy!
