"Are you awake?"

A gentle and sweet voice sounded in her ears, and Lu Haidi slowly opened her eyes.

She always felt that she was hallucinating, and she could faintly hear the words "You have become a girl" after "You are awake".

No, the point is not whether she had auditory hallucinations, the point is that she really became a girl again.

That's not right, considering that she has been turned into a girl by [Character Card? Slave of Destiny] in the new book, she should be "transformed back" into a girl now!

This makes the logic smoother.

Lu Heidi rubbed her eyes and saw clearly the face of Ed Meng and Sugar Daisy in front of her. She looked around and found that she was lying on the back of a giant dragon, soaring in the sky.

She pretended to be a little uneasy and asked:

"Master, where are we going?"

Sugar Daisy put her right index finger on Lu Haidi's lips, shook her head, and said with a smile:

"Call me sister."

Lu Heidi's face turned red, she lowered her head in embarrassment, and said angrily:

"Sister-sama..."

This is the skill she has developed by playing her own daughter in the world of "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" for more than ten years! She is already an experienced actor!

She has good looks and acting skills, but she only needs traffic if she wants to be popular.

"There are a lot of gold and silver treasures in Solomon's Tower of Wisdom. I am going to buy a title from the King of Turkey as a disguised identity. The viscount baron is too low and the duke and marquis are too prominent. A count is the most suitable. Neither will be

People should be despised, but it will not attract too many unnecessary eyes. Well, just name me the Count of Monte Cristo after the island of Monte Cristo where we just fought a bloody battle together."

Sugar Daisy always had a sweet smile when she spoke, but Lu Haidi could clearly see the fire burning in her dark pupils.

Lu Haidi knew that it was the flame of revenge.

"The Count of Monte Cristo" is one of Alexandre Dumas's most famous works. Another common translation is "The Count of Monte Cristo", which straightforwardly shows that this work tells a story of repayment and revenge.

This novel is based on a prototype. In 1807, a Frenchman named Pico was wrongly accused of being a British spy and sentenced to seven years in prison. After he was released from prison, he was lucky enough to get a windfall and used the power of money to kill people.

The three enemies who framed him died. Later, he himself also died in a murder. The person who killed him was the whistleblower who revealed to him how the three enemies framed him. The whistleblower only confessed this when he was confessing on his deathbed.

everything.

Alexandre Dumas saw this news in the newspaper and was immediately attracted. After a lot of artistic processing, he created the masterpiece "The Count of Monte Cristo".

(Please don’t delve into why the priest’s deathbed confession appeared in the newspaper and became news. Even the journalists in France in the 19th century had extremely high professionalism.)

Revenge, this theme is very easy to understand, and it is Alexandre Dumas's consistent style. He does not talk about any big principles in his novels, he only focuses on describing wonderful plots.

What readers can discern from the plot is their own business. What the author should do is to lay out the foreshadowing, write the plot well, and create the characters well. No matter how many wise sayings you write in a novel that doesn’t even have an exciting plot, it will be enough.

It's just the author's self-satisfaction.

With this creative methodology, Alexandre Dumas completed one masterpiece after another and became the well-deserved "King of Popular Novels" in the history of literature.

However, it is precisely because his works are too "popular" that Alexandre Dumas has always been at the bottom of the contempt chain in the literary world, unable to obtain fair evaluations from those superior literary critics.

They will say:

"There is no thought in Alexandre Dumas's works."

"Alexander Dumas's books are street stall literature."

"Alexander Dumas's novels can only be used as entertainment."

This situation lasted for many years in both Chinese and foreign literary circles. It was not until 2002 that the French government moved the remains of Alexandre Dumas to the Panthéon.

After that, the number of comments that looked down on Alexandre Dumas decreased by 90%, and the number of articles that criticized Alexandre Dumas increased by ten times.

What kind of place is the Panthéon that has such powerful energy that it can make trolls retreat and turn into licking dogs?

Since ancient Greece, there have been facilities such as the Pantheon to commemorate heroic spirits. In European religious traditions, it is also common practice to bury saints under churches.

During the French Revolution, the National Convention decided to transform a church under construction into the Panthéon, not to commemorate the so-called saints of the church, but to commemorate the great people who made extraordinary contributions to the motherland and the people!

Over the past two hundred years, there have been only 72 great men enshrined in the Pantheon, and only 6 of them were writers——

Rousseau, his representative works "The Social Contract" and "On the Origin and Basis of Human Inequality", epitaph: Sleeping here is a man who loves nature and truth.

Voltaire, his representative works "Candide", "Philosophical Correspondence", "The Age of Louis XIV", epitaph: poet, historian, philosopher, he expanded the human spirit and made people understand that it should be free.

Victor Hugo, his representative works include "Les Misérables", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "The Man Who Laughs", "Sea Laborers" and "1993".

Emile Zola, the representative work of the "Rougon-Macquart" series of novels.

André Malraux, the masterpiece... died less than fifty years ago and has no works to form the world of masterpieces. Readers can forget about this man.

Finally, there is Alexandre Dumas, whose masterpieces are "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo".

Among them, Rousseau and Voltaire were buried in the Pantheon when it was first established. These two people had many conflicts during their lifetimes and were considered mortal enemies. However, in the Pantheon, they were buried in the most central and most prominent place.

The position, with the coffins facing each other...

Maybe the romantic French want to express that the collision of ideas of great men has the power to change the world?

Anyway, I definitely don’t want these good friends to continue to love and kill each other after they die.

Hugo and Zola, two great contemporary writers, slept happily in tomb No. 24. The texts in front of their tombs introduced how they fought against autocracy and fought for freedom. Until 2002, Alexandre Dumas also

After moving from their hometown, their world ended.

Among the writers who were contemporary with the three of them, Balzac also has a high demand for entering the Panthéon, but he is still buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Lachaise is one of the most famous cemeteries in the world, and one of the most famous in French history.

Many famous people sleep here.

So, now we can answer why the evaluation of Alexandre Dumas changed drastically after he was buried in the Pantheon.

Because this move by the French government proves one thing - novelists can be great enough as long as they write their own works well.

Novels are powerful. Novels represent more than just copyright and monetary gains. Novels are ideas, culture, and the soul of mankind.

The soul of a novel does not need to dwell on those seemingly profound thoughts. A simple and exciting plot is enough to pass on the mark of an era to future generations.

Outside the Pantheon, there is an inscription:

The motherland thanks the great men.

For all novelists who create their own works seriously, treat their readers seriously, and fulfill their responsibilities seriously, each of them is at least a great man in himself.

Lu Haidi's thoughts suddenly turned back to the era she lived in, and she had mixed feelings.

One day, online novels and their creators will be fairly evaluated and treated. History will prove everything.
Chapter completed!