Milady de Winter

Buckingham, the French queen, her diamond studs, and the siege of La Rochelle.

Cogswell even jokes that the real reasons for the war, quote, gave way to Milady de Winter and D'Artagnan, right? The two of the characters from Dumas' Three Musketeers.

Cogswell links this failure to a king whom John Morrill called, quote, unparalleled in his failure to communicate with his subjects, right? So this silence, this decision to remain silent, right? left a sort of vacuum, right, that like filled up with all kinds of shit.

Right.

Rochefort had scarcely departed when Madame Bonacieux re-entered.

She found Milady with a smiling countenance.

"Well," said the young woman, "what you dreaded has happened.

This evening or to-morrow the cardinal will send someone to take you away." "Who told you that, my dear?" asked Milady.

"I heard it from the mouth of the messenger himself." "Come and sit down close to me," said Milady.

"Here I am." "Wait till I assure myself that nobody hears us." "Why all these precautions?" "You shall know." Milady arose, went to the door, opened it, looked in the corridor, and then returned and seated herself close to Madame Bonacieux.

"Then," said she, "he has well played his part." "Who has?" "He who just now presented himself to the abbess as a messenger from the cardinal." "It was then a part he was playing?" "Yes, my child." "That man, then, was not..." "That man," said Milady, lowering her voice, "is my brother." "Your brother!" cried Madame Bonacieux.

"No one must know this secret, my dear, but yourself.

Two Varieties of Demons.

"Ah," cried Milady and Rochefort together, "it is you!"

"Yes, it is I."

"And you come?" asked Milady.

"From La Rochelle.

And you?"

"Well, well," said Rochefort, "here is a chance which may pair off with the other.

M. Cardinal is indeed a privileged man."

Like, I, I, all I remember as a kid is...

All I, all I kinda remember is they, like, the, the fighting scene between D'Artagnan and, um, Rochefort and Milady.

Like, wa-watching that as a kid, I think I might have, I might have either rented this from Video Ezy or, like, seen a few scenes on TV.

Hmm.

You know, we get like the main three and-

Mm

... and Mulan and Milady.

But I was real- I was really hoping we got it like every time a character walked on screen.

Also, speaking of that Three Musketeers, the new version, I didn't mention Eva Green is also in that.

She plays Milady de Winter.

Hmm.

This isn't the Paul Thomas Anderson...

Great criminals bear about them a kind of predestination, which makes them surmount all obstacles, which makes them escape all dangers, up to the moment which a wearied Providence has marked as the rock of their impious fortunes.

It was thus with Milady.

She escaped the cruisers of both nations and arrived at Boulogne without accident.

When landing at Portsmouth, Milady was an Englishwoman whom the persecutions of the French drove from La Rochelle.

When landing at Boulogne after two days passage, she passed for a Frenchwoman whom the English persecuted at Portsmouth out of their hatred for France.

Milady had likewise the best of passports, her beauty, her noble appearance, and the liberality with which she distributed her pistoles.

Freed from the usual formalities by the affable smile and gallant manners of an old governor of the port, who kissed her hand, she only remained long enough at Boulogne to put into a post a letter conceived in the following terms.

"To His Eminence, Monseigneur the Cardinal Richelieu, in his camp before La Rochelle.

Huge.

And they put Lana Turner in these impossibly saturated, luminous gowns as Milady de Winter, and Angela Lansbury playing Queen Anne.

The star power is just absurd.

It is.

Ranked at number seven on our list.

Yeah.

It stars Michael York as a brilliantly clumsy D'Artagnan, Oliver Reed bringing this intense gravity to Athos, Raquel Welch as Constance, and Faye Dunaway as Milady.

Such a stacked cast.

Only the king, who was bored, as always, but perhaps a little more so in camp than elsewhere, resolved to go incognito and spend the festival of St. Louis at St. Germain, and asked the cardinal to order him an escort of only twenty musketeers.

the cardinal who sometimes became weary of the king granted this leave of absence with great pleasure to his royal lieutenant who promised to return about the fifteenth of december m de treville being informed of this by his eminence packed his portmanteau and as without knowing the cause he knew the great desire and even imperative need which his friends had of returning to paris it goes without saying that he fixed upon them to form part of the escort the four young men heard the news a quarter of an hour after m de treville for they were the first to whom he communicated it it was then that d'artagnan appreciated the favor the cardinal had conferred upon him in making him at last enter the musketeers for without that circumstance he would have been forced to remain in the camp while his companions left it It goes without saying that this impatience to return toward Paris had for a cause the danger which Madame Bonacieux would run of meeting at the convent of Bethune with Milady, her mortal enemy.

Aramis, therefore, had written immediately to Marie Michon, the seamstress at Tours, who had such fine acquaintances, to obtain from the Queen authority for Madame Bonacieux to leave the convent and to retire either into Lorraine or Belgium.

They had not long to wait for an answer.