This week, Sofia and Jamie tackle the 1993 version of The Three Musketeers. Join them for a discussion of snipers, headsmen, royal assassination, and ladies-in-waiting.

Sources

Movie Background:

Roger Ebert's Review

The New York Times Review

The Variety Review

The Three Musketeers, IMDB

Three Musketeers, Wikipedia

Snipers:

STEPLYK, JONATHAN M. "Hunters of Men: Sharpshooters and Killing." In Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat, 119-41. University Press of Kansas, 2018. Accessed June 7, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvvnfz0.10.

Video of Matchlock Musket

Wired: Brown Bess vs. AR-15

Royal Armouries Matchlock Loading Demonstration

Hans Halberstadt and Gregory Mast, To Be a Military Sniper (United States: Voyageur Press, 2007).

Headsmen:

Edward White, “The Bloody Family History of the Guillotine,” https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/06/the-bloody-family-history-of-the-guillotine/ 

Gene E. Ogle, “Slaves of Justice,” Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, Vol. 29, No. 2, Interpreting the Death Penalty: Spectacles and Debates (Summer 2003), pp. 275-293 (19 pages)

Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/executioners-who-inherited-their-jobs-180967947/

Assassination:

Assassination Attempt on King Louis XV

Eisner, Manuel. "KILLING KINGS: Patterns of Regicide in Europe, Ad 600—1800." The British Journal of Criminology 51, no. 3 (2011): 556-77. Accessed June 7, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/23640326.

Parker, Richard. "Some Additional Sources of Dumas's "Les Trois Mousquetaires"." Modern Philology 42, no. 1 (1944): 34-40. Accessed June 7, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/434465.

The Earl of Moray and James Stewart

MOOTE, A. LLOYD. "PARTNERSHIP OF KING AND CARDINAL." In Louis XIII, the Just, 155-74. University of California Press, 1989. Accessed June 7, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp5sg.13

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIII

Ladies-in-waiting

Sharon Kettering, “The Patronage Power of Early Modern French Noblewomen,” The Historical Journal 32, 4 (Dec. 1989) pp. 817-841.

The Bedchamber Crisis: https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/the-year-of-queen-victoria-2019/the-year-of-queen-victoria-the-bedchamber-crisis/

Anne Walthall, Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History (University of California Press, 2008).

Caroline zum Kolk, "The Household of the Queen of France in the Sixteenth Century", The Court Historian, volume 14, number 1, june 2009 (http://cour-de-france.fr/article2336.html).