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fffridayThe Count of Monte Cristo is one of my very favourite books, and part of the reason for that is the relationship between one minor character and one even more minor character, which ends up about as close as one can get to canonical lesbianism in a book published in France in 1848. Eugénie Danglars is an heiress. Louise d'Armilly is her friend. Louise is destined for the opera stage. Eugénie would like to be.
There is not a huge amount of fic for the fandom, but a happily disproportionate quantity of it deals with Eugénie and Louise. In Another Time, by Gentlezombie, is one of my favourites. It imagines four possible futures for the pair after they escape canon, in a delightful pastiche of Dumas' lush descriptive style, and there's a lovely twist.
There is not a huge amount of fic for the fandom, but a happily disproportionate quantity of it deals with Eugénie and Louise. In Another Time, by Gentlezombie, is one of my favourites. It imagines four possible futures for the pair after they escape canon, in a delightful pastiche of Dumas' lush descriptive style, and there's a lovely twist.
