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Fan Fiction · Set in The Forty-Five Guardsmen
Chicot's Quiet Year
This is fan fiction. An original, unofficial story
written by a contributor to this site, not by Alexandre Dumas. It
is not part of the actual novel and should not be mistaken for
Dumas's own writing.
Chicot appears throughout the Valois Romances as Henri III's uniquely trusted jester and secret agent, a man whose wit conceals real political usefulness. This two-chapter story imagines an earlier, quieter year in his life — before the king's trust was fully earned, when Chicot deliberately made himself appear useless to the court, and discovered that disappearing into harmlessness was its own kind of skill worth mastering.
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