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Madame Bonacieux is one of the queen’s servants and d’Artagnan’s mistress. At the beginning of the novel, she remains loyal to her husband until Monsieur Bonacieux becomes an agent of the cardinal. Realizing her husband has betrayed her, Madame Bonacieux turns to d’Artagnan for help and eventually falls in love with him. Because she is loyal to the queen, Madame Bonacieux is regularly persecuted by the cardinal and eventually has to hide in a convent outside of Paris. Just before she and d’Artagnan are reunited, Milady poisons Madame Bonacieux. She dies in d’Artagnan’s arms.
Madame Bonacieux Quotes in The Three Musketeers
The The Three Musketeers quotes below are all either spoken by Madame Bonacieux or refer to Madame Bonacieux. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 11
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He was thinking about Madame Bonacieux. For an apprentice musketeer, she was almost an amorous ideal: besides being young, pretty, and mysterious, she knew nearly all the secrets of the court, which gave her face a charming look of gravity, and she was suspected of not being insensitive to masculine attentions, which is an irresistible attraction for young men with little experience in love. Furthermore, d’Artagnan had rescued her from the demons who wanted to search her and mistreat her, and this had given her one of those feelings of gratitude that can easily develop into something more tender.
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Chapter 14
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Although his triumph over such a mediocre man as Bonacieux could scarcely be counted as a great victory, the cardinal savored it for a moment; then, as if a new thought had just occurred to him, he smiled, held out his hand to the draper, and said, “Stand up, my friend. You’re a good man.”
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Madame Bonacieux Quotes in The Three Musketeers
The The Three Musketeers quotes below are all either spoken by Madame Bonacieux or refer to Madame Bonacieux. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 11
Quotes
He was thinking about Madame Bonacieux. For an apprentice musketeer, she was almost an amorous ideal: besides being young, pretty, and mysterious, she knew nearly all the secrets of the court, which gave her face a charming look of gravity, and she was suspected of not being insensitive to masculine attentions, which is an irresistible attraction for young men with little experience in love. Furthermore, d’Artagnan had rescued her from the demons who wanted to search her and mistreat her, and this had given her one of those feelings of gratitude that can easily develop into something more tender.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 14
Quotes
Although his triumph over such a mediocre man as Bonacieux could scarcely be counted as a great victory, the cardinal savored it for a moment; then, as if a new thought had just occurred to him, he smiled, held out his hand to the draper, and said, “Stand up, my friend. You’re a good man.”
