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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace

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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })La Femme au collier de velours is a 19th century French novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. A recognized classic of the "Fantastique" genre.Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, commonly just "Hoffmann," is a German art student/musician/poet Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life with his friend Werner. Hoffmann and Werner plan on going to Paris, but most plans are put off by a lack of funds. However, just when they're ready to go, Hoffmann falls in Love at First Sight with Antonia, a pure and sweet musician's daughter, and stays behind in Germany to prepare for their wedding while Werner trots off to Paris. It isn't long, though, before Hoffmann itches to join Werner. Antonia lets him go, with only two conditions, and it's off to Paris!Just one thing Hoffmann forgot about. The French Revolution is in full swing.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })His very first day, he witnesses the beheading of Madame Du Barry, and is deeply disturbed. Unable to take in the art in the museums, and with no way to find his friend Werner, he goes to the Opera, where he finds Arsène. She's incredibly beautiful, absolutely unattainable, and Hoffmann doesn't take long to decide he must have her. What follows is one man's descent into vice, lust, and the frenzy of Paris during the Terror — and, possibly, complete insanity.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Hoffmann has trouble getting through to France. So he takes out his pipe — his big, hefty pipe like all Germans have — and shows it to the French border patrol, who are stunned because they have such little, ineffectual pipes. They are so impressed by the amount of tobacco he stuffs into his enormous pipe that they let him enter France.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_1750b9be	type	Poisonous Friend
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_1750b9be	comment	Poisonous Friend: Werner, in the second half.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: Arsène is dead — or possibly not even real — from the moment that Hoffmann found her in the Place de la Révolution.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_21af9165	type	Heroic Vow
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_21af9165	comment	Heroic Vow: See above.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_3ac8baf	type	StoryWithinAStory
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_3ac8baf	comment	Story Within a Story: Or frame story.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: The snuffbox had snuff in it!.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Arsène’s current paramour.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: Is Hoffmann going insane? Is he a recent escapee from a mental hospital? Or is the story that he's a recent escapee from a mental hospital merely a coverup for a story that is far more bizarre and horrifying?
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_62cae28a	type	Losing Your Head
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_62cae28a	comment	Losing Your Head: Mme Du Barry. Also, Arsène. It's only her velvet necklace that keeps it on.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_67c287fe	type	Karmic Twist Ending
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_67c287fe	comment	Karmic Twist Ending
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_6c1cc4b	type	Everyone Looks Sexier if French
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_6c1cc4b	comment	Everyone Looks Sexier if French: Although the very sexy Arsène is French, the narrator does not say she is desirable because she is French. Instead, Hoffmann's fiancée, Antonia, is half-German and half-Italian (the two races which Dumas says compete for the title of most beautiful), and explicitly owes her attractiveness to her heritage.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word: And Hoffmann, idiot that he is, breaks it.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_79ddd4ce	type	Rapunzel Hair
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_79ddd4ce	comment	Rapunzel Hair: Arsène — her hair trails down on the floor behind her when she stands up.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_8319aaea	type	Compensating for Something
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_8319aaea	comment	Compensating for Something: See the note about pipes below.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_85832a47	type	Gay Paree
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_85832a47	comment	Gay Paree
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Arsène is bad news from the get-go, and the strongest sign of this is probably her guillotine necklace.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Loads and loads of symbolism. Hoffman first sees Antonia as she is coming out of church, her head modestly bowed. Her mother died in an opera of Alcèste, a story about the most loving and self-sacrificing wife in history. Then, he first sees Arsène as she plays the spirit of "Spring" (like the Springtime of the French republic), and later Arsène dresses as a Maenad. His last encounter with Arsène, he finds her sitting at the feet of the guillotine, alone, at night, in the Revolution Square.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_967fb42a	type	Prolonged Prologue
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_967fb42a	comment	Prolonged Prologue: Sixty pages! About some old man who likes to talk about his toads that live for six hundred years.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_a0434be6	type	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_a0434be6	comment	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Arsène.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: Hoffmann and Arsène, after a wild evening of piano playing and dancing, fall into bed together. Cut to the next morning.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_a5d92fce	type	Celibate Hero
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_a5d92fce	comment	Celibate Hero: Hoffman will not pursue any romances other than with Antonia. Or so he promises.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_ac1b0a35	type	Elegant Classical Musician
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_ac1b0a35	comment	Elegant Classical Musician: Hoffmann falls even more in love with Antonia after hearing her sing and play the harp.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_b097493c	type	Madonna-Whore Complex
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_b097493c	comment	Madonna–Whore Complex: Antonia, chaste and loving bride-to-be, and Arsène, lascivious and cruel dancer, respectively embody this dichotomy.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Arsène, Antonia, and Mme du Barry.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Many, as is normal for French literature. Particular note is Arsène’s costume as ‘Erigone,’ a Maenad from Classical Mythology who committed suicide.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In this case, maybe magic maybe madness.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_ce287322	type	The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_ce287322	comment	The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Antonia and her dad — who had previously been Ugly Guy, Hot Wife.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_d3aad64a	type	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_d3aad64a	comment	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: That doctor with the snuffbox with the little skull on it.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: He just happens to run into his friend Werner in Paris when neither knows where to find the other — then when he loses Arsène he happens to find her again in the Place de la Révolution.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_ee9877ea	type	Too Good for This Sinful Earth
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Antonia's mother, and Antonia herself.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_fe905f06	type	Hesitant Sacrifice
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_fe905f06	comment	Hesitant Sacrifice: Mme du Barry. This is based on historical anecdote, telling that the woman's last lines before she was lowered before the guillotine were "Just one minute more, sir! One more minute!"
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_ff7e9adf	type	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace / int_ff7e9adf	comment	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Antonia's golden hair sets off her angelic aspect (complete with golden harp, beautiful singing voice, and her sweet and chaste nature). Antonia is the ultimate good woman, in contrast to dark-haired Arsène, the ultimate bad girl.
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The Woman with the Velvet Necklace	hasFeature	Everyone Looks Sexier if French / int_af01832b
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace	hasFeature	Psychological Horror / int_af01832b
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace	hasFeature	Sexy Discretion Shot / int_af01832b
The Woman with the Velvet Necklace	hasFeature	Through the Eyes of Madness / int_af01832b

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