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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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Does This Remind You of Anything? |
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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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Poisonous Friend |
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Poisonous Friend: Werner, in the second half. |
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Dead All Along |
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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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Heroic Vow |
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Heroic Vow: See above. |
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Story Within a Story: Or frame story. |
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Captain Obvious |
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Captain Obvious: The snuffbox had snuff in it!. |
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Fat Bastard |
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Fat Bastard: Arsène’s current paramour. |
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Through the Eyes of Madness |
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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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Losing Your Head |
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Losing Your Head: Mme Du Barry. Also, Arsène. It's only her velvet necklace that keeps it on. |
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Karmic Twist Ending |
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Karmic Twist Ending |
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Everyone Looks Sexier if French |
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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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I Gave My Word |
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I Gave My Word: And Hoffmann, idiot that he is, breaks it. |
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Rapunzel Hair |
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Rapunzel Hair: Arsène — her hair trails down on the floor behind her when she stands up. |
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Compensating for Something |
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Compensating for Something: See the note about pipes below. |
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Gay Paree |
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Gay Paree |
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Femme Fatale |
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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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Rule of Symbolism |
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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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Prolonged Prologue |
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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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Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette |
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Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Arsène. |
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Sexy Discretion Shot |
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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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Celibate Hero |
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Celibate Hero: Hoffman will not pursue any romances other than with Antonia. Or so he promises. |
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Elegant Classical Musician |
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Elegant Classical Musician: Hoffmann falls even more in love with Antonia after hearing her sing and play the harp. |
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Madonna-Whore Complex |
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Madonna–Whore Complex: Antonia, chaste and loving bride-to-be, and Arsène, lascivious and cruel dancer, respectively embody this dichotomy. |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Arsène, Antonia, and Mme du Barry. |
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Shout-Out |
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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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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In this case, maybe magic maybe madness. |
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The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter |
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The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Antonia and her dad — who had previously been Ugly Guy, Hot Wife. |
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Morally Ambiguous Doctorate |
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Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: That doctor with the snuffbox with the little skull on it. |
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Contrived Coincidence |
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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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Too Good for This Sinful Earth |
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Antonia's mother, and Antonia herself. |
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Hesitant Sacrifice |
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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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Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold |
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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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