Originally Posted by
Alayne
Louis didn't become a better king, Aramis had him replaced once he boarded the boat and the captain recognized him as the general of the Jesuits. That is why the king wouldn't see D'Artagnan right away and the king told D'Artagnan to "judge me from this day forward." D'Artagnan's audience with the king rendered him "bewildered, mute, undecided for the first time in his life. He had just found an adversary worthy of him."
Why else four years later would the king allow Aramis to even eat at the same table. Would you want to eat with a man that had designs of ruining you with a state secret as delicate as the man in the iron mask?
I like that Dumas didn't digest everything for the reader. I admit, I had to re-read portions of the Louis XIV chapter over to get the subtle changes in the king. Dumas was a genius.:thumbs_up