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Eloise d'Artagnan is the main protagonist of the 1994 French swashbuckler adventure movie, Revenge of the Musketeers (French: La Fille de d'Artagnan). As her family name suggests, she is the daughter of the legendary but widowed musketeer, d'Artagnan and Quentin la Misère's fiancee.
She was portrayed by Sophie Marceau.
Personality[]
Like her father, Eloise is shown to be brave, loyal, valiant, courageous, tough, determined, somewhat stubborn, headstrong, fearless, smart, slightly disobedient, and rebellious. However, due to her upbringing in a convent run by nuns and a Mother Superior, Eloise is nevertheless kind, caring, generous, gentle, selfless, and somewhat religious.
Biography[]
After her mother, Constance's death earlier in life, Eloise-Adelaide-Jeanne-d'Artagnan was left by her father, d'Artagnan in the special love and care of the Mother Superior, Mother Therese and her nuns in a convent in France to raise and protect her since her father was the King's own Captain of Guard at the time and unable to raise her himself even though the former felt neglected and dumped afterwards.
One night, during prayer, Eloise and the nuns are interrupted by a wounded African Negro having escaped from a group of men led by the Duke of Crassac and his mistress, Eglantine de Rochefort a.k.a. the Woman in Red who is to be sold to the Americas as a slave. When the Duke's men and Eglantine arrive and proceed to physically abuse the nuns when they refuse to talk and vandalize the convent while searching for their missing prisoner even after one of them, Bargas murders the Mother Superior in cold blood against Eglantine's wishes, Eloise tries in vain to fight them off despite the other nuns restraining her and the men's superior number and fighting skills. After the men leave, Eloise finds what she thinks is thought to be a coded message leading to a possible conspiracy against the future King of France even though it's actually a simple laundry list with blood stained by the bleeding Negro earlier before his capture.
Angered by the evil men's misconduct and the Mother Superior's death, Eloise vows to avenge her death and seek the help of her estranged father, d'Artagnan and his old friends: Athos, Porthos, and Aramis despite the latter's objections before dying since all she asked was to have Eglantine condemned for her crimes with the proof she had. After dressing up in men's clothes and bidding her nun friends farewell, Eloise rides to Paris in a horse carriage. On the way, Eloise stops for lunch (roast leg of lamb) in a tavern where she meets a bard/poet named Quentin la Misère who is not easily fooled by her disguise, but is romantically infatuated and in love with her when he sends her a newly written love poem while some soldiers are trying to recruit at least 5 men to join the King's army, namely, King Louis XIV who is to be crowned the new King of France soon. Then, Eloise finds herself in the middle of a fight with the soldiers trying to fight and arrest Quentin after he had deliberately messed up their registration form when forced to sign up against his will and after one of them accidentally but carelessly ruins the former's lunch in the process.
After leaving the insolent soldiers in the tavern to brawl amongst the angry customers, Eloise and Quentin ride off together on two of the soldiers' own black horses on their way to Paris as they get further acquainted and somewhat romantically close with each other despite Quentin's slight doubts about Eloise's identity and family. Once in Paris, Eloise is horrified to see in what condition the people including criminals are in under the King's chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin's authority whom Quentin has dared to defy with pamphlets he had written against him concerning his greed, taxes, and abuses while referring to him as "the green miser" and "the red shrew", making him a wanted man in Paris. When they arrive at the Rue aux Ours where her father is thought to reside, Eloise decides to go in alone first where she finds herself happily reunited with her father once again, giving sword fighting lessons to some men and his old manservant, Planchet who helped raise her at some point early in life and now owns his own shop next to d'Artagnan's home.
After telling her story to her father, Eloise is somewhat disappointed to learn that her father is no longer the King's Captain of the Guard against his wishes due to a fallout he drunkenly had with the King in person a few years prior for having broken a few promises despite having saved the latter's life at one point. Nevertheless, Eloise is glad to know that her father is more than willing to help either way and then presents him with the coded message. Then, Eloise and her father are visited by Quentin whom d'Artagnan takes a slight dislike to even though Eloise plans to marry him either way despite her father's objections.
Later, after knocking Planchet out left to protect her while her father goes to visit his deceased friend, Athos at his grave, Eloise goes to the palace dressed in her late mother's dress to seek the King's help against her father's wishes. However, after introducing herself to the King, Eloise is now left to seek help from Cardinal Mazarin when the King refuses to listen due to the past incident with her father whose personal apology he still awaits to this day. After telling the Cardinal only half of her story and just when she is about to reveal the document as proof, Eloise decides to leave rather hastily while falsely claiming that the Mother Superior had burned the document when she learns that the Cardinal has signed the order for Quentin's arrest after he had been spotted by the latter's men earlier somewhere in Paris. Nevertheless, even when stopped by her upset father for her disobedience temporarily, Eloise finds herself pursued by the Cardinal's guards sent by their master to retrieve the document from her. After a long chase throughout the city and within a home at one point, Eloise is finally cornered and captured by the Cardinal's guards as they seize the supposed document hidden within her cleavage until her father comes to her rescue. After a long fight resulting in some of the Cardinal's guards' deaths while the others flee with the document, Eloise appears rather distressed after her first kill before her father comes over to comfort her. Then, Eloise reveals to her father where she had hidden the real document as they head for home (the Cardinal's guards having made off with what is, in fact, Quentin's love poem to her earlier) and Eloise tells her father about the one-eyed man working for the Cardinal possibly working with the conspirators as well.
Once home, Eloise apologizes to Planchet for the pain to his head earlier and asks about Quentin's whereabouts. Shocked to learn that her fiance is still in trouble with the Cardinal's men, Eloise tries to go after him, but her father justly states otherwise. While her father settles his debts with Planchet at the latter's own shop, both father and daughter steal some food and other provisions behind Planchet's back for their trip to recruit d'Artagnan's remaining old friends: Porthos and Aramis to help thwart an as yet unidentified conspiracy against the King. When her father reveals he intends to send her to another convent on the way, Eloise objects and manages to convince him otherwise after a small dispute. Then, Eloise is happily reunited with Quentin who managed to evade arrest through a disguise before they head out with her father and Planchet in a horse carriage the latter "borrowed" earlier to recruit Porthos first.
After successfully recruiting Porthos, Eloise and her father enjoy his story-telling in the carriage as they make their way to Aramis who has become a bishop after his retirement. Later, at night, as Aramis tries to decipher the code, Eloise is pleased and excited to learn that she will be joining them on their quest after all when eavesdropping on her father's conversation with his friends. Excited by the news, Eloise tries in vain to announce it to a completely dozed out Quentin and then, seduce and sleep in the semi-nude with him, but to no avail.
The next day, Eloise rides off with Quentin, her father, and his friends to the convent where the former formerly resided at. On the way, Eloise teases Quentin about missing a "delicious sight" last night. As they try to change horses and find some place to rest on the way, Eloise and the others constantly learn that the one-eyed man is on the same trail as well. At night, Eloise and her father begin to argue up to a point where the latter slaps her for repeatedly calling him an "unworthy father" in front of his friends when he threatens to take her back to the convent tomorrow out of anger due to Eloise growing tired of being told to do useless chores on the journey, prompting a hurt Eloise to go on ahead with only Quentin to accompany her to the convent. On the way, Eloise precedes Quentin since his own horse refuses to cross the river with her. Once at the convent, Eloise is horrified to find a murdered nun (probably one of her friends) and later, discovers a few documents torn to pieces inside the late Mother Superior's room before finding herself held at gunpoint by the culprit in person, namely, Eglantine de Rochefort. Although Eloise manages to disarm Eglantine and gain the upper hand in unarmed combat, she is once again held at gunpoint by one of Eglantine's henchmen and taken away along with all the other nuns taken prisoners.
At a port where the Duke of Crassac executes his slave trading and gun smuggling business regularly, while all the nuns are to be sold as slaves at various prices and shipped to the Americas, Eloise is to be exceptionally sold at 300 pistoles until she is bought and sold to the Duke himself who has suddenly become smitten and romantically infatuated with her once they finally meet face-to-face for the first time despite her resistance; much to the former's disgust and Eglantine's chagrin and jealousy.
During a carriage ride to his cloister at Chazeilles, the Duke reveals he plans to marry Eloise, which he claims to be just a jest so as to throw a jealous Eglantine off suspicion. Later on, Eloise struggles from her bonds before Eglantine restrains her further before the two women converse as Eloise reveals the latter's past crimes she found out from the torn documents about her and that the late Mother Superior was actually fond of the latter in her own fashion given her past history at the convent a few years prior.
The next day, Eloise is thrown into a dungeon where the Duke deliberately takes away Eglantine's necklace and bestows it upon Eloise who tries to attack him before leaving to further execute his other plan which is to poison King Louis XIV at his upcoming coronation on Sunday in the cathedral of Reims with a poison concocted by his doctor (whom he previously murdered afterwards) known as "l'acgua misteriosa", have Mazarin blamed for the murder, and when the King's younger brother is installed, step in as the powerful King's protector.
Just as the Duke and his fellow conspirators are about to execute their plan the next day, Eloise is confronted by a jealous Eglantine who takes back her necklace without hesitation. Luckily, Eloise manages to convince Eglantine to redeem herself and help set her free before they set off to the cathedral where she confronts the Duke and further challenges him to a duel even after overhearing him about his plan to marry her at the Louvre once the King is dead, which she obviously refuses. While dueling against some of the Duke's men, Eloise is rendered helpless when she loses her sword until she is suddenly saved and reunited just in time with her father, his friends (including Athos who was, in fact, the one-eyed man the whole time), and her fiance who proceed to fight off the other conspirators. During the fight, after sharing another kiss with Quentin, Eloise pursues the cowardly Duke trying to escape and later, kill her in vain before the two begin dueling all the way to the top of the cathedral as the former continues to insult him. Eventually, Eloise is disarmed after the Duke fakes an injury and is held at sword point. However, just as Eloise is about to be killed by the Duke, her father arrives just in time to run the Duke through from behind with his sword and the latter dies in his arms.
With the Duke of Crassac and his men dead, the conspiracy is foiled, King Louis XIV is finally crowned King of France, Mazarin resumes his position as the King's chief minister despite his deceitful diplomacy, a redeemed Eglantine is pardoned for her crimes, both Eloise and Quentin are free to marry after her father bestows them his blessing, and d'Artagnan is reinstated as the King's Captain of the Guard after both father and daughter embrace while telling her how proud he is of her before riding off to discuss the latter's future plans.
During the end credits giving out each movie character's actor's name, Eloise breaks the fourth wall when she introduces herself before introducing both her fiance and father to the audience.