The Three Musketeers, Chapter 26 summary
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In Chapter 26, D’Artagnan visits Aramis at Crèvecœur and finds him preparing for ordination, debating theology, and explaining how a duel interrupts his earlier religious training. When D’Artagnan produces a love letter, Aramis abandons his solemn withdrawal from worldly pleasures and orders a rich meal with wine.
What happens
- Worried about Mme. Bonacieux, D’Artagnan reaches Crèvecœur and learns that Aramis intends to enter the Church.
- D’Artagnan pushes past Bazin and finds Aramis debating possible thesis subjects with two clergymen.
- Aramis defends a thesis about regret and sacrifice, despite the Jesuit’s warnings about false doctrine.
- After the clergymen leave, Aramis recounts the insult, fencing lessons, and fatal duel that interrupt his religious training.
- D’Artagnan suspects disappointed love behind Aramis’s religious resolve and produces a letter addressed to him.
- Reassured of his beloved’s faithfulness, Aramis celebrates, rejects the fasting meal, and demands meat and Burgundy.
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Aramis’s relief reveals the romantic anxiety beneath his religious withdrawal. The letter immediately changes his conduct toward food, drink, and worldly company.
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What immediately changes Aramis’s mood and behavior?
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