Le Chevalier de Maison Rouge is a kind of banter amid Terror in Paris during the Revolution. It is true that the tone sometimes a little grandiloquent of the main characters can irritate an adult reader but style remains quality and humor of Dumas saves all. What struck me in retrospect is the kinship between this novel and Ninety Thirteen of Victor Hugo: the first time, but also the story of friendship which is the same conclusion in both books. One could consider that of Dumas, addressing a younger audience, is an introduction to that of Hugo, darker and tormented, but each in his own way wanted to relate Revolution and Romanticism.
