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Louise de la Vallière
by Alexandre Dumas
After finishing this book, I am struck by how much I miss Milady. There was by far too much fainting going on in Louise de la Valliere for me not to recall one of my favorite lines of Milady's: "I faint? I? Do you take me for some weak woman? When I am insulted I do not faint, I avenge myself!" Louise is a poor heroine who never seems to be able to make her mind about anything. Louis is not much better- I suppose for a king it is nothing to send away a woman's fiancé for the purpose of seducing her, but it seemed to me that all Louis's actions are rather reprehensible. It's hard to feel at all interested in a love story when even the love of the two parties condemns them. I confess, I only forced myself to finish Louise de la Valliere for the sake of the preceding books I had loved so well and the concluding part for which I still have high hopes. ...And also for the sake of Montelais and Malicorne; those two are awesome.