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Yuletide reveal
Jan. 2nd, 2014 09:50 pmThis was me this year:
Notre Dame de Paris: Nuit Blanche
The houses on the parvis could hardly be immune to the battle for Notre-Dame. Nor could the inhabitants be unchanged by the struggle under their windows.
Basically, Fleur-de-Lys watches the whole battle for Notre Dame and decides she'll have to make this Phoebus mess work since she has no other good choices. Because she's the smartest person in that whole damned book. Lord, I forgot how stupid everyone is in that novel, except there's Fleur-de-Lys, who is perceptive enough to see through Phoebus as much as she can, having been sheltered by her rather ridiculous mother, and ends up being the only person we don't see actively betraying other people. Even her own mother is selling her in marriage to a man who doesn't really want her but is closing her eyes to that fact. But Fleur-de-Lys sees everything that goes on, so why shouldn't she see the battle that took place under her window? (I may have thrown a bit of Cosette's curiosity in there, since it isn't like Hugo was trying to make Fleur-de-Lys an actual 15th century woman but rather someone of his own era in a 15th century costume.)
I need to get back to writing. Just bought a bunch of research books and am back to finishing reading Braudel's The Identity of France. We'll see what gets accomplished.
Notre Dame de Paris: Nuit Blanche
The houses on the parvis could hardly be immune to the battle for Notre-Dame. Nor could the inhabitants be unchanged by the struggle under their windows.
Basically, Fleur-de-Lys watches the whole battle for Notre Dame and decides she'll have to make this Phoebus mess work since she has no other good choices. Because she's the smartest person in that whole damned book. Lord, I forgot how stupid everyone is in that novel, except there's Fleur-de-Lys, who is perceptive enough to see through Phoebus as much as she can, having been sheltered by her rather ridiculous mother, and ends up being the only person we don't see actively betraying other people. Even her own mother is selling her in marriage to a man who doesn't really want her but is closing her eyes to that fact. But Fleur-de-Lys sees everything that goes on, so why shouldn't she see the battle that took place under her window? (I may have thrown a bit of Cosette's curiosity in there, since it isn't like Hugo was trying to make Fleur-de-Lys an actual 15th century woman but rather someone of his own era in a 15th century costume.)
I need to get back to writing. Just bought a bunch of research books and am back to finishing reading Braudel's The Identity of France. We'll see what gets accomplished.