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Vingt ans après

By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Bernard Bollet
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Vingt ans après, ils courent, chevauchent et ferraillent toujours, sur les routes de France ou d'Angleterre. Leurs bras, comme leurs langues, n'ont rien perdu de cette vigueur étincelante qui les faisait déplacer les montagnes et réussir l'impossible. Leur amitié, dans les moments critiques, ressoude leurs quatre lames comme limailles autour d'un seul aimant. Mais les temps ont bien changé. Aramis sert ses duchesses, Athos ne songe qu'à son fils, Porthos à son titre et d'Artagnan s'est attaché à un Mazarin que tout le monde abandonne.

C'est le règne de l'individualisme bourgeois que Dumas dénonce, et l'élan brisé de la jeunesse, de ses espoirs, qu'il évoque avec une tendre nostalgie. Les montagnes, cette fois, ne bougent plus. Le ciel s'est assombri. Et si les dialogues claquent toujours, dans ces pages ferventes et enflammées, ils s'épuisent aussi, bien souvent, contre le mur de l'irrémédiable. Cette fragilité avouée, ce demi-renoncement, grandissent Dumas et nous le rendent plus proche encore.


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Fantastic for learning French

The actor reading this speaks so clearly it is perfect for non French native speakers trying to improve their French.

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Entertaining and adventurous.

Very entertaining and full of adventures, just like volume 1. Excellent narration. Can't wait to read the next volume.

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Outstanding Follow-up

Bernard Bollet does it again in this bigger, more complex story centred around (but not exclusive to) the culmination of the English Civil war.
How did Alexandre Dumas manage to make me root for outcomes that I know are not in keeping with historical fact? How did he have me think that Charles I might actually live, when his fate is extensively well documented?! Dumas found a way.
This sequel is what a good sequel should be: expanding upon what made the original great and finding entirely new situations for our beloved characters to get wrapped up in. All the while wandering through historical events and playing around with what might historically have plausibly happened without distorting the timeline. Great fun!
For Bollet's performance, see my review of the original: he's *fantastic*.
If there was *one* thing I'd mark this series down for, it would be the fact that there is no Bernard Bollet-read version of the third and final D'artagnan novel: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne. Please, Audible, make this happen. There is a need for Bernard Bollet to complete the series. S'il vous plaît ! Why stop midway through? Please bring him back! Bring him back like Dumas brought back the three musketeers out of retirement!

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