1. Is it defensible of Noirtier to put Franz through the pain of rehashing his father’s death?

2. The report mentions a letter from Elba erroneously confident that General d’Épinay would support Napoléon; is there a gender dynamic to communication in TCoMC? (The ways men communicate—letters, telegraph signals—seem fraught with peril, whereas the way Valentine, for example, communicates with Noirtier—cooperation—creates unity between them…)

Final sentence of chapter:

“Villefort opened the door and fled, for he had just had an impulse to stifle the last drags of life still remaining in the old man’s fearsome heart.”

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