Madeleine
Also known as: Madame Turquaine / Mistress Turquaine / pretty Madeleine / the hostess / the landlady · Family: La Chevrette · Role: hotel hostess · First appears: Chapter 6
Life events
- 1648 · Madeleine proposes marriage, but D’Artagnan furiously refuses.(Chapter6 · 📍 Rue Tiquetonne)
- With: D’Artagnan
- “‘So you refuse my request?’ ‘To be sure I do—furiously!’”
- 1648 · D’Artagnan disguises Planchet as Madeleine’s Flemish brother and servant.(Chapter6 · 📍 Rue Tiquetonne)
- With: D’Artagnan Planchet
- “this is your brother, Madeleine; you don’t know him perhaps, but I know him; he has arrived from Amsterdam.”
Chapter 6
- courtship with D’Artagnan “after certain love passages, much obstructed by an inconvenient husband”
- patron: D’Artagnan (D’Artagnan is the patron and Madeleine the recipient of his patronage.) “by such conduct you have lost my esteem and my patronage.”
- with Planchet (Madeleine and Planchet are falsely presented as siblings.) “Wish your sister good-morning, Master Peter.”
Chapter 8
- siblings with Planchet “It was Planchet, but so completely transformed, thanks to the old clothes that the departing husband had left behind, that D’Artagnan himself could hardly recognize him. Madeleine introduced him in presence of all the servants. Planchet addressed the officer with a fine Flemish phrase; the officer replied in words that belonged to no language at all, and the bargain was concluded; Madeleine’s brother entered D’Artagnan’s service.”
Chapter 54
- with D’Artagnan (Madeleine is the hostess of the hotel D’Artagnan visits.) “Five minutes afterward he entered the hotel of La Chevrette, where pretty Madeleine, the hostess, came to him.”
Chapter 90
- with D’Artagnan (Madeleine is D’Artagnan’s hostess, and he requests rooms from her.) “‘Madeleine,’ said the Gascon, ‘give me your apartment on the first floor; now that I am a captain in the royal musketeers I must make an appearance; nevertheless, reserve my old room on the fifth story for me; one never knows what may happen.’”
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Extracted from the original text of Twenty Years After. Made with Rho MD.