Versailles

A fan of "The Rose of Versailles" by Japanese teacher Riyoko Ikeda ——The fateful encounter is something that ordinary people cannot predict. It was still in the era when I didn't know the taste of sadness, and I was still chasing "Daughters of the Nile". On that day, the bookstore owner said that the new book had not arrived yet. With a bit of disappointment, I walked around in front of the dazzling bookcases and selected it - "The Rose of Versailles: The Rose of Versailles". Frankly speaking, at first glance, I felt that the characters in the painting were not as beautiful as those in "Ni", but it was because of the short introductions at the beginning that I was moved, so I bought it with the money I had saved from my teeth to buy "Ni". It took a long time to go from the side story to the main story. When I belatedly realized that this was a book worth collecting, I ran to collect it. Only two fragments of volumes 7 and 8 were left. The collection was completed a few years later when the pocket book was reprinted. What was the scene like before? A few pages of text could not satisfy me, so with an arrogant heart, I began to write a novel like "The Storm in Versailles". That year was 1994. After several years of intermittent work, I reluctantly completed the first draft around 1998. When I came to the South, I also put the five handwritten manuscripts in my luggage and took them with me to start another journey in my life. It was probably in 1998 or 1999 - I can't remember exactly - that I started to learn how to surf the Internet and started looking for comic book friends online. Finally, I found my fellow comics, and then I discovered that there is a word for fandom. With the support and encouragement of some friends, as well as my own bad nature of showing off, I opened my notebook and typed all the words I wrote when I was young onto the computer. On and off, it was completed in late 2001. While serializing, he also completed four spin-offs: "Cemetery Watcher", "The Last Waltz" (revised and included in the main biography), "Test" (already included in the main biography), and "Embers". The response to the first serialization was not very good, because the writing was too immature, the thoughts were too taken for granted, and it was loose and even disjointed. Later, Candy, a friend I met online, wrote a long letter, very objectively and impartially pointing out the five major shortcomings of "The Wind and Cloud", and it also made me calm down and think carefully about my own mistakes. After a few years, after reading a lot of articles and experiencing a lot of things, a part of my body has gradually settled down, and I realize how childish my assumptions are, and I feel that I treat many things too lightly, such as "The Wind and Cloud". Therefore, in the second half of 2003, the overall revision and reorganization of "Wind and Cloud" officially began. Because I stubbornly want to leave something for myself to prove the crazy love I once had, so I hope it can gradually improve. In "Wind and Cloud", it is very different from the original work. There are changed characters and some added characters, so here is a preliminary explanation of several major changes. One of the changes: Oscar's life experience. Oscar here first appears as a man, and the Györgi family is reduced to only one master. I changed her to the illegitimate daughter of the Queen of Austria - this is a controversial point and the point that best expresses my arrogance - which intensified her tragedy and made her transformation process into a revolutionary longer and made Oscar less dazzling than the plump one written by the teacher. I made Oscar become ordinary and she became weak. Her time as a noble occupied most of her life, and there were too many constraints on her, which made her endure all unfair treatment, even at the expense of the people she loved and herself. But after all, she is still bloody. Maybe she is proud by nature, but the concept of obedience has always suppressed her heart. When the strong contrast between gain and loss shattered the illusion of a peaceful life, when the only hope of redemption she had was shattered, and when she realized that escaping would only lead to being hurt again, she severed her connection with the past, regained her own brilliance for herself and the people she loved, and finally walked towards the Bastille. But, in the end, her happiness was still so little. Everything was lost, nothing left, only the pain, the broken heart, and the infamy of not being accepted or recognized. Death became her only destination. However, the final farewell scene was not in Bastille, but when the royal family moved back to Paris, they died of assassination. Smaller, who killed her, had unknowing happiness, and simple love and hate were clear and strong. She would never have the chance to know why Rosalie died, and she would never regret the shot she took. Change 2: Andre's life experience. Andre's identity here is that of Prince Conti, appearing as a nobleman. Why? Because I like Andre and the steadfast love that he has been silently waiting for, and the love that gives without regrets, I took the liberty to increase his role and mixed some of my favorite types of men, such as Rhett Butler, into a male protagonist. Change 3: Self-created character: Cedric. This is a careless, driven, passionate, but too simple-thinking person, a leader in a civilian area. His presence intensifies Oscar's tragedy. Can he really understand why Andre is willing to give everything for Oscar? Can he understand the deep love between Andre and Oscar? Perhaps he realized his mistake in the end, but had no chance to correct it, so he carried his regrets with him until his death. Change 4: Alang's ending According to friends who have watched "Symphony of Heroes", Alang also participated in many battles, but I made him retire from the stage of history prematurely. I think Alang is the most tragic person in the whole story. The person he would rather follow to the end of hell belongs to someone else. The passionate Fu Ni when we first met, the frank support after being attracted, and the sadness and defeat after losing her, until the end of her life. When I wrote "The Cemetery Watcher", I did not intend to give him such a gloomy ending, but when I think about the chaos during the Revolution, especially the description in "A Tale of Two Cities", watching the carriages pulling many people to the execution ground and the cemetery, the thick blood is scary. It's not that they dislike revolution, but that they cannot accept an order that is out of control. The struggle for the ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity is not about the bloody guillotine. Maybe staying quietly in the cemetery is not suitable for his character, but I don't want him to die in this chaos. That's probably all. Thank you to everyone who saw this! The turbulence of the times has created many special people and extraordinary stories. Although I don't have the writing skills to control the historical torrent, I still wrote my own articles without overestimating my abilities and fell in love with the characters in them. PS: When I was writing this article, I realized that it has been ten years, and the years have really passed by! In fact, although it is a revised version, there are still many errors and omissions after the revision is completed. For example, men and women are polite in ballroom dancing in the palace, and men will not put their hands on women's waists; for example, when getting married, the person who presides over the wedding is not a priest but a priest; for example, the French court dress at that time did not have cool Egyptian clothes; for example... The above are all corrected by colleagues on the Internet, and I would like to express my thanks again to everyone who gave their opinions! As for when to revise it, well, I hope I can wait until the serialization is completed before going back to revise it. Additional digression: Versailles, why was this name chosen? Because I am not good at naming things. It reminds me of Jie Xianglin's "Versailles", which was severely criticized. Everyone who has read it knows that that book can only be regarded as a text version of "The Rose of Versailles" at most - but I have reservations about the author's juvenile content - since this book is derived from "The Rose of Versailles", let's just call it "The Storm of Versailles", or "The Storm of Versailles" for short. In this way. How simple. Conception: