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Eugénie and Louise after they run away ~

Eugenie Danglars and Louise got a hotel room with two beds and only used one of them. Like rip to ur only one bed trope but I'm different

Chapter 97

Harold Danglars they’re lesbians!!!

"Ah, you do well to ask,” said Eugenie, laughing; “I forgot that I was Hercules, and you only the pale Omphale!”

First the Sappho reference, then Eugenie comparing herself to Hercules, and Louise to Omphale in the same sentence... the Omphale whose most famous myth is from when she "is the mistress of the hero Heracles during a year of required servitude, a scenario that, according to some, offered writers and artists opportunities to explore sexual roles and erotic themes."

Then, with a promptitude which indicated that this was not the first time she had amused herself by adopting the garb of the opposite sex, Eugenie drew on the boots and pantaloons, tied her cravat, buttoned her waistcoat up to the throat, and put on a coat which admirably fitted her beautiful figure.

Eugenie dresses like a man sometimes...!

Then she grasped the front hair, which she also cut off, without expressing the least regret; on the contrary, her eyes sparkled with greater pleasure than usual under her ebony eyebrows. “Oh, the magnificent hair!” said Louise, with regret.

“And am I not a hundred times better thus?” cried Eugenie, smoothing the scattered curls of her hair, which had now quite a masculine appearance; “and do you not think me handsomer so?”

Gives herself a dramatic Mulan haircut then looks delighted and calls herself handsome!

“What are you looking at?”

“I am looking at you; indeed you are adorable like that! One would say you were carrying me off.”

“And they would be right, pardieu!”

This exchange...

I love Eugenie more every time, but this chapter especially is a goldmine.

In the foreword to Robin Buss's translation, he singles out Chapter 97 as one which suffered especially from cuts in the original English translation, and one of the reasons I started noting translation differences was to make sure this chapter got justice.

Turns out, though, that the text The Cristo Account is using seems to be from a later edition Buss mentions that put back in some of the things the first edition omitted, because all the specific moments he highlights are present: these include the references to Eugénie being like Hercules or an Amazon, and the joke about her abducting Louise.

There are still a few small omissions and changes; the older text leaves out a reference to Eugénie's strong white arms ("ses bras blancs et musculeux") when she's forcing the suitcase shut, and insists on her coat fitting "her beautiful figure" (not a plus when she's trying to pass as a man) where the original says (in Buss's translation) that it "outlined her slender, well-turned waist" ("dessinait sa taille fine et cambrée").

Aside from Eugénie, there's also a fun turn of phrase at the beginning of the chapter which I think the older translation takes the sting out of:

... c'était là une de ces circonstances dans lesquelles il ne faut pas même essayer de donner ces banales consolations qui rendent dans les grandes catastrophes les meilleurs amis si importuns.

... it was a situation where the ordinary condolences,—which even the best friends are so eager to offer in great catastrophes,—were seen to be utterly futile.

This was one of those circumstances in which one should not even try to offer the trite consolations that make the best of friends so unwelcome in the event of a great catastrophe.

Eugenie's character really makes sense when you remember who her mother was. Monsieur Danglars was terrified of Madame Danglars

Eugenie was born to be a man hating lesbian

modern Eugenie Danglars The Skater 'cause i can

There's a sapphic couple in the Count of Montecristo and nobody talks about it? Or at least I knew nothing of it???

diversity wins! half sister you almost married is a he/him lesbian who ran away with her gal pal

My wish was not to confine myself to domestic cares, or the caprices of any man, but to be an artist, and consequently free in heart, in person, and in thought.

I know Eugenie Danglars is a lesbian, but can I just say I relate to this so much?

Then, with a promptitude which indicated that this was not the first time she had amused herself by adopting the garb of the opposite sex, Eugenie drew on the boots and pantaloons, tied her cravat, buttoned her waistcoat up to the throat, and put on a coat which admirably fitted her beautiful figure.

And with her left hand seizing the thick mass, which her long fingers could scarcely grasp, she took in her right hand a pair of long scissors, and soon the steel met through the rich and splendid hair, which fell in a cluster at her feet as she leaned back to keep it from her coat. Then she grasped the front hair, which she also cut off, without expressing the least regret; on the contrary, her eyes sparkled with greater pleasure than usual under her ebony eyebrows. "Oh, the magnificent hair!" said Louise, with regret.
"And am I not a hundred times better thus?" cried Eugenie, smoothing the scattered curls of her hair, which had now quite a masculine appearance; "and do you not think me handsomer so?"
"Oh, you are beautiful—always beautiful!" cried Louise.

Chapter 97: The Departure for Belgium. The Count of Monte Cristo

skeletons buried in the closet / last embrace

...she saw that Eugenie detested Debray,—not only because he was a source of dissension and scandal under the paternal roof, but because she had at once classed him in that catalogue of bipeds whom Plato endeavors to withdraw from the appellation of men, and whom Diogenes designated as animals upon two legs without feathers.

Debray: *enters a room*

Eugenie, sarcastically: Behold, a man!

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That's such a funny way to say 'Eugenie thinks he's a coward'. Not even going straight to 'chicken' instead. What a perfect joke for tumblr.