Book 2 Chap. 7 “Monsieur the Marquis in Town”

1. Book 2 Chap. 7 “Monsieur the Marquis in Town” By: Evan Cooper

2. Title Importance The title “Monsieur the Marquis in Town” is important because it is showing that a person with a great amount of power is in France, and that he is there on important business.

3. Characters Monseigneur Monseigneur’s sister Monseigneur’s coachman The Cook Farmer-General Gaspard Defarge Madame Defarge

4. Summary • back in France. • it is describing how Monseigneur, a member of the French aristocracy, makes his hot chocolate in the morning. Actually, Monseigneur would never dream of making his own chocolate. • He has four servants to do that for him. • Monseigneur remains convinced that the world has been created for Monseigneur and his pleasures. Anything that doesn’t concern Monseigneur’s pleasure is something about which Monseigneur will never be interested. • Monseigneur is a conglomerate of all the aristocrats. The more we read, the less he seems like a real guy, at all. Ex. (he doesn’t have any other name than Monseigneur.) • In Monseigneur’s house, everyone dresses exquisitely. Gold and masques and wigs and silk stockings abound. • Everyone seems to be pandering to Monseigneur all the time. Doctors, lawyers, government officials, and other forms of "high society" meet in his house to tell him how wonderful he is. • Tonight Monseigneur goes to the opera. While he’s there, a man appears. No one seems to like the man very much. He’s cold, with a face "like a fine mask." • He leaves the opera and gets into his carriage, where he orders his driver to speed through the streets. • Suddenly, however, they come to a lurching halt. The Marquis’ carriage has run over a small child. The father of the child, wild with grief, charges at the carriage. • Monsieur le Marquis looks at him in disgust. He can’t figure out what all the trouble is about. He throws the man a coin to pay for his dead child.

5. Literary Devices Symbolism - “... throwing him another gold coin, and spend it as you will.” (pg. 115) Irony - “ ‘You dogs!’ said the Marquis,.... ‘I would ride over any of you very willingly, and exterminate you from the earth.” (pg. 115-116) Repetition - “the Holiest of Holiests” (pg. 108)

6. Essential Quote “...- always excepting superior mankind of the blood of Monseigneur, who his own wife included, looked down upon him with the loftiest contempt”