{"id":13035,"date":"2017-11-06T13:37:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T11:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-dev.nli.org.il\/you-will-never-believe-who-turned-down-the-author-of-the-three-musketeers\/"},"modified":"2020-09-24T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T09:15:13","slug":"rachel_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/rachel_\/","title":{"rendered":"You Will Never Believe Who Turned Down the Author of &#8220;The Three Musketeers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1832, at just 11 years old, the young Rachel F\u00e9lix, a Jewish girl from Switzerland, left her home for Paris. There, she enrolled in one of France\u2019s most prestigious schools for the performing arts, she also acquired broad literary knowledge. Despite her great love of the classics, her favorite writer of all time was the contemporary, best-selling author of <em>The Count of Montecristo <\/em>and <em>The Three Musketeers<\/em>, Alexandre Dumas <em>p\u00e8re<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13036\" style=\"width: 455px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13036 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Nadar_-_Alexander_Dumas_p\u00e8re_1802-1870_-_Google_Art_Project_2-455x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Nadar_-_Alexander_Dumas_p\u00e8re_1802-1870_-_Google_Art_Project_2-455x600.jpg 455w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Nadar_-_Alexander_Dumas_p\u00e8re_1802-1870_-_Google_Art_Project_2-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Nadar_-_Alexander_Dumas_p\u00e8re_1802-1870_-_Google_Art_Project_2-768x1012.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Nadar_-_Alexander_Dumas_p\u00e8re_1802-1870_-_Google_Art_Project_2-60x79.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexandre Dumas p\u00e8re, in a photograph from the 1850s (photo by F\u00e9lix Nadar)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It took Rachel a little over a decade to become the most famous stage actress of the day for her roles in the classic tragedies of Racine and Corneille. By the 1840s, she had become the most celebrated actress in Paris, the European theater capital of the time. While vacationing in Madrid, she happened to meet the idol of her youth, and at the end of their brief encounter Dumas invited her to join him for lunch at the seashore. Excited at the opportunity to dine in the company of the famous author, she also accepted Dumas\u2019s proposal to continue to correspond with him after her return to Paris.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The great dramatic actress quickly became disillusioned. Her reply to Dumas reveals the great miscalculation on both of their parts regarding the intentions of their mutual correspondence: whereas Rachel was certain that the much admired author was interested in an intellectual exchange, his intentions were clearly amorous in nature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deeply offended, Rachel was determined to beat him at his own game, and penned a response laced with equal measures of dry sarcasm, wonder and sincere regret. Using the words \u201cfraudulent interpretation\u201d in the letter she sent him on 17 July 1848, she expressed her bewilderment at how such a pleasant afternoon spent in each other\u2019s company could have led Dumas to draw conclusions, \u201cso far from my own thoughts.\u201d She asked to immediately end their epistolary exchange, \u201cwhich has wounded me deeply.\u201d She also wanted to make it clear to him that while she had indeed been very honored to conduct a correspondence with someone whom she viewed as the greatest living author of the day, she now regretted the direction Dumas had chosen to take things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the letter progresses, we see Rachel\u2019s anger rise along with her feeling that an affront to her honor had been committed, which becomes apparent in the small grammatical errors, and especially in the multiple underlines she includes for emphasis. Toward the end of the letter, Rachel launches her final salvo: \u201cI knew that with stupid folk one must consider one\u2019s every word, but one need not be so careful with intelligent, intellectual people.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7874\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/primo.nli.org.il\/primo_library\/libweb\/action\/dlDisplay.do?dscnt=0&amp;dstmp=1474376261271&amp;docId=NNL_ARCHIVE_AL003692127&amp;vid=NLI&amp;vid=NLI&amp;backFromPreferences=true\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7874\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/715-537-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/715-537-4.jpg 715w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/715-537-4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel\u2019s letter to Dumas, 17 July 1848, from the Rachel F\u00e9lix Archive at the National Library of Israel. Rachel\u2019s underlines are evident throughout the entire last part of the letter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dumas\u2019s response did not take long, since in a second letter also written in Rachel\u2019s hand and now found among the National Library of Israel&#8217;s treasures, she disdainfully quotes from a telegram Dumas sent her: \u201cMadame, If you truly desire it, we shall leave things at that. This will always be a part of the path we have traveled together, with utmost regard, your friend, Dumas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The temptation was too great for Rachel, and she added a short retort of her own. She asked to apologize, sarcastically, of course, for having apparently misread Dumas\u2019s intentions, and now scolded him, in light of the flirtatious letter he had sent before. \u201cIf you have jotted down these lines from your inkstand by mistake, in the midst of your endless duties \u2013 I am indeed honored to receive them,\u201d she concluded. Then, she erased a number of lines she had written and sent off her undated, indignant response to Dumas, without bothering to compose a new one.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13038\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13038 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20160807_151238-397x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20160807_151238-397x600.jpg 397w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20160807_151238-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20160807_151238-60x91.jpg 60w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/20160807_151238.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel\u2019s second and final letter to Dumas, undated. From the Rachel F\u00e9lix Archive at the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Epilogue<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our story could easily end here. In fact, the missing pieces might even add an element of mystery to the entire affair.\u00a0 And yet, in the Library\u2019s collection there is one more letter that was sent by Rachel, this one to her sister Sara. The letter is undated, leaving it for us to decide when it might have been written and sent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>What\u2019s in it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stated simply, Rachel asks that her sister inform Dumas that she cannot meet him on Sunday and would, therefore, be happy if he would choose another day during the week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>When was it sent?<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nBased on the two letters described above, the meeting referred to in this third letter would have to have been written after Rachel and Dumas\u2019s initial encounter in Madrid, which was the event that triggered the exchange of letters that had so deeply offended Rachel.\u00a0 In other words, we don\u2019t precisely know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Did Rachel eventually respond to Dumas\u2019s advances? Did they ever make up and become friends?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In all likelihood, we will never know the answers to these questions either. Melodrama, mystery, lovers\u2019 quarrels and reconciliation, were, no doubt, all integral parts of daily life in nineteenth-century France.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Rachel F\u00e9lix met her childhood idol, the famous writer Alexandre Dumas, she could not contain her excitement. 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