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** Long story short, Romuald had not seen a woman other than his mother until the age of twenty-four [[EatingTheEyeCandy he accidentally lays eyes upon the supernaturally beautiful and regal Clarimonde]], and so delayed puberty hits him like a vengeful train for the next few hours. Even at the age of sixty-six, decades after he left her for the good of his soul, he still can't forget how she made him feel.
** Long story short, Romuald had not seen a woman other than his mother until the age of twenty-four [[EatingTheEyeCandy he accidentally lays eyes upon the supernaturally beautiful and regal Clarimonde]], and so delayed puberty hits him like a vengeful train for the next few hours. Even at the age of sixty-six, decades after he left her for the good of his soul, he still can't forget how she made him feel.
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**FirstLove: Long story short, Romuald had not seen a woman other than his mother until the age of twenty-four twenty-four; [[EatingTheEyeCandy he accidentally lays eyes upon the supernaturally beautiful and regal Clarimonde]], and so delayed puberty hits him like a vengeful train for the next few hours. Even at the age of sixty-six, decades after he left her for the good of his soul, he still can't forget how she made him feel.
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* KillItWithWater:HolyBurnsEvil[=/=]KillItWithWater: Clarimonde's body, when sprinkled with holy water, "crumbled into dust, and became only a shapeless and frightful mass of cinders and half-calcined bones."
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** What with "The Dead Leman" preceding so many establishing works of VampireFiction, of course she's not going to match what a vampire has become imagined to be. Her most curious trait is that her immortality is ResurrectiveImmortality rather than being TheAgeless. She says that every so often, she is made to leave for a world where nothing is, but that she -- and she alone -- can will her soul back to her body.
** What with "The Dead Leman" preceding so many establishing works of VampireFiction, of course she's not going to match what a vampire has become imagined to be. Her most curious trait is that her immortality is ResurrectiveImmortality rather than being TheAgeless. She says that every so often, she is made to leave for a world where nothing is, but that she -- and she alone -- can will her soul back to her body.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent:
**OurVampiresAreDifferent: What with "The Dead Leman" preceding so many establishing works of VampireFiction, of course she's not going to match what a vampire has become imagined to be. Her most curious trait is that her immortality is ResurrectiveImmortality rather than being TheAgeless. She says that every so often, she is made to leave for a world where nothing is, but that she -- and she alone -- can will her soul back to her body.
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** What with "The Dead Leman" preceding so many establishing works of VampireFiction, of course she's not going to math what a vampire has become imagined to be. Her most curious trait is that her immortality is ResurrectiveImmortality rather than being TheAgeless. She says that every so often, she is made to leave for a world where nothing is, but that she -- and she alone -- can will her soul back to her body.
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** What with "The Dead Leman" preceding so many establishing works of VampireFiction, of course she's not going to math match what a vampire has become imagined to be. Her most curious trait is that her immortality is ResurrectiveImmortality rather than being TheAgeless. She says that every so often, she is made to leave for a world where nothing is, but that she -- and she alone -- can will her soul back to her body.
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* VampiresAreSexGods: The first time Clarimonde dies during Romuald's lifetime, it is supposedly at the end of an orgy that lasted for eight days and eight nights
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* VampiresAreSexGods: The first time Clarimonde dies during Romuald's lifetime, it is supposedly at the end of an orgy that lasted for eight days and eight nightsnights.
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"The Dead Leman" ("La Morte Amoureuse"), also known in English as "Clarimonde", was written by Théophile Gautier and published in 1836 in ''La Chronique de Paris''. It is a ShortStory sitting comfortably on the border of GothicHorror and DarkFantasy. It is one of the earliest pieces of VampireFiction, which makes the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent titular vampire different]] from what would become the definition of a vampire half a century later.
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"The Dead Leman" ("La Morte Amoureuse"), also known in English as "Clarimonde", was written by Théophile Gautier Creator/TheophileGautier and published in 1836 in ''La Chronique de Paris''. It is a ShortStory sitting comfortably on the border of GothicHorror and DarkFantasy. It is one of the earliest pieces of VampireFiction, which makes the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent titular vampire different]] from what would become the definition of a vampire half a century later.
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* FirstLove: Long story short, Romuald had not seen a woman other than his mother until the age of twenty-four [[EatingTheEyeCandy he accidentally lays eyes upon the supernaturally beautiful and regal Clarimonde]], and so delayed puberty hits him like a vengeful train for the next few hours. Even at the age of sixty-six, decades after he left her for the good of his soul, he still can't forget how she made him feel.
** Arguably, Clarimonde herself, toward Romuald. Though very sexually experienced (through multiple lifetimes!), she claims to have never truly loved before meeting him, and she certainly treats him well.
** Arguably, Clarimonde herself, toward Romuald. Though very sexually experienced (through multiple lifetimes!), she claims to have never truly loved before meeting him, and she certainly treats him well.
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* FirstLove: FirstLove:
** Long story short, Romuald had not seen a woman other than his mother until the age of twenty-four [[EatingTheEyeCandy he accidentally lays eyes upon the supernaturally beautiful and regal Clarimonde]], and so delayed puberty hits him like a vengeful train for the next few hours. Even at the age of sixty-six, decades after he left her for the good of his soul, he still can't forget how she made him feel.
**Arguably, Though Clarimonde herself, toward Romuald. Though is very sexually experienced (through multiple lifetimes!), she claims to have never truly loved before meeting him, Romuald, and she certainly treats him well.
** Long story short, Romuald had not seen a woman other than his mother until the age of twenty-four [[EatingTheEyeCandy he accidentally lays eyes upon the supernaturally beautiful and regal Clarimonde]], and so delayed puberty hits him like a vengeful train for the next few hours. Even at the age of sixty-six, decades after he left her for the good of his soul, he still can't forget how she made him feel.
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* AmbiguousSituation:AmbiguousSituation: Is Clarimonde a diabolically-evil vampire delighting in the corruption of an innocent priest? Or is she a very hedonistic FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire who falls in love for real with Romuald? Romuald himself is tormented for the rest of his life by this question; if the latter, he's horribly betrayed her love.
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* FirstLove: Long story short, Romuald had not seen a woman other than his mother until the age of twenty-four, [[EatingTheEyeCandy he accidentally lays eyes upon the supernaturally beautiful and regal Clarimonde]], and so delayed puberty hits him like a vengeful train for the next few hours. Even at the age of sixty-six, decades after he left her for the good of his soul, he still can't forget how she made him feel.
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* FirstLove: Long story short, Romuald had not seen a woman other than his mother until the age of twenty-four, twenty-four [[EatingTheEyeCandy he accidentally lays eyes upon the supernaturally beautiful and regal Clarimonde]], and so delayed puberty hits him like a vengeful train for the next few hours. Even at the age of sixty-six, decades after he left her for the good of his soul, he still can't forget how she made him feel.feel.
** Arguably, Clarimonde herself, toward Romuald. Though very sexually experienced (through multiple lifetimes!), she claims to have never truly loved before meeting him, and she certainly treats him well.
** Arguably, Clarimonde herself, toward Romuald. Though very sexually experienced (through multiple lifetimes!), she claims to have never truly loved before meeting him, and she certainly treats him well.
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* RunawayBride: Invoked and played with. Romuald meets Clarimonde during his ordination and in that moment a ceremony he'd been looking forward to for years becomes a trap of which the end result will be that he can never be with her. As he continues with his vows still, he compares his situation to an unwilling bride (as well as an unwilling female novice), who despite not wanting her ceremony either goes through with it because of the insurmountable social pressure. He'd prefer to run too, but even with Clarimonde's encouragement he can't pull himself out of the happenings.
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* RunawayBride: Invoked and played with. Romuald meets Clarimonde during his ordination and in that moment a ceremony he'd been looking forward to for years becomes a trap of which the end result will be that he can never be with her. As he continues with his vows still, he compares his situation to an unwilling bride (as well as an unwilling female novice), who despite not wanting her ceremony either goes through with it because of the insurmountable social pressure. He'd prefer to run too, but even with Clarimonde's encouragement he can't pull himself out of the happenings.
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* MightyWhitey: Clarimonde is described as extremely white, yet all her servants (slaves, according to Abbé Sérapion) are played up as being "swarthy", "bronzed", and in one case the word "negro" is dropped.
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* MightyWhitey: Clarimonde is described as extremely white, yet all her servants (slaves, according to Abbé Sérapion) are played up as being "swarthy", "bronzed", and in one case the word "negro" is dropped.dark skinned.
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* DreamWeaver: Clarimonde is an especially powerful one.
* FemmeFatale: Or TheVamp; there's arguments for either. The whole of the story is clear about her being evil, yet when she gets her say, she makes a good point for having done no harm to anyone.
* FemmeFatale: Or TheVamp; there's arguments for either. The whole of the story is clear about her being evil, yet when she gets her say, she makes a good point for having done no harm to anyone.
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* DreamWeaver: Clarimonde is an may be especially powerful one.
* FemmeFatale: Or TheVamp; there's arguments for either.The whole of the story is clear about her being evil, yet when she gets her say, she makes a good point for having done no harm to She never actually harms anyone.
* FemmeFatale: Or TheVamp; there's arguments for either.
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* DarkIsEvil: The racist version. Clarimonde is the exception, although her eyebrows might be understood as a hint to her demonic nature, but everyone in her service whose skin color is given is dark-skinned. This is part of a pattern where other things are dark or specifically black too, such as Clarimonde's black horses or her majordomo being dressed in black, and all hinted to be demonical.
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* DarkIsEvil: The racist version. Clarimonde is the exception, although her eyebrows might be understood as a hint to her demonic nature, but everyone in her service whose skin color is given is dark-skinned. This is part of a pattern where other things are dark or specifically black too, such as Clarimonde's black horses or her majordomo being dressed in black, and all hinted to be demonical.
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* ButterflyOfDeathandRebirth: Symbolically. In Clarimonde's chamber at the Concini Palace, there's a white rose that at her time of death only has one leaf left. When she fully passes on, the last leaf falls. Romuald compares it to a butterfly's wing and imagines that it takes along Clarimonde's soul when it floats out of the window. What with how many deaths there are between the vampire Clarimonde and her original human self, of course she'd be back.
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* ButterflyOfDeathandRebirth: ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Symbolically. In Clarimonde's chamber at the Concini Palace, there's a white rose that at her time of death only has one leaf left. When she fully passes on, the last leaf falls. Romuald compares it to a butterfly's wing and imagines that it takes along Clarimonde's soul when it floats out of the window. What with how many deaths there are between the vampire Clarimonde and her original human self, of course she'd be back.
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* ButterflyofDeathandRebirth: Symbolically. In Clarimonde's chamber at the Concini Palace, there's a white rose that at her time of death only has one leaf left. When she fully passes on, the last leaf falls. Romuald compares it to a butterfly's wing and imagines that it takes along Clarimonde's soul when it floats out of the window. What with how many deaths there are between the vampire Clarimonde and her original human self, of course she'd be back.
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* ButterflyofDeathandRebirth: ButterflyOfDeathandRebirth: Symbolically. In Clarimonde's chamber at the Concini Palace, there's a white rose that at her time of death only has one leaf left. When she fully passes on, the last leaf falls. Romuald compares it to a butterfly's wing and imagines that it takes along Clarimonde's soul when it floats out of the window. What with how many deaths there are between the vampire Clarimonde and her original human self, of course she'd be back.
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* AsleepforDays: Romuald is asleep for three days after his first visit to Clarimonde. Barbara, his housekeeper, took care of him in the meantime.
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* AsleepforDays: AsleepForDays: Romuald is asleep for three days after his first visit to Clarimonde. Barbara, his housekeeper, took care of him in the meantime.
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* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: Clarimonde wouldn't have it any other way.
* AsleepforDays: Romuald is asleep for three days after his first visit to Clarimonde. Barbara, his housekeeper, took care of him in the meantime.
* AsleepforDays: Romuald is asleep for three days after his first visit to Clarimonde. Barbara, his housekeeper, took care of him in the meantime.
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* DarkIsEvil: The racist version. Clarimonde is the exception, although her eyebrows might be understood as a hint to her demonic nature, but everyone in her service whose skin color is given is dark-skinned. This is part of a pattern where other things are dark or specifically black too, such as Clarimonde's black horses or her majordomo being dressed in black.
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* DarkIsEvil: The racist version. Clarimonde is the exception, although her eyebrows might be understood as a hint to her demonic nature, but everyone in her service whose skin color is given is dark-skinned. This is part of a pattern where other things are dark or specifically black too, such as Clarimonde's black horses or her majordomo being dressed in black.black, and all hinted to be demonical.
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* TheOphelia: RegalRingletsRomuald's description of the dead/dying Clarimonde ticks all the boxes. Death is just a quirk to her beauty. Her stillness lends "her an unspeakably seductive aspect of melancholy, chastity, and mental suffering." And in her RegalRinglets spread out like a pillow are little blue flowers intertwined.
** What with "The Dead Leman" preceding so many establishing works of VampireFiction, of course she's not going to math what a vampire has become imagined to be. Her most curious trait is that her immortality is ResurrectiveImmortality rather than being TheAgeless. She says that every so often, she is made to leave for a world where nothing is, but that she -- and she alone -- can will her soul back to her body.
** On the other hand, Clarimonde's physical form is destroyed by holy water (for now). "The Dead Leman" may very well be the first instance of holy water being used against a vampire.
** On the other hand, Clarimonde's physical form is destroyed by holy water (for now). "The Dead Leman" may very well be the first instance of holy water being used against a vampire.
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* VampiresAreSexGods:VampiresAreSexGods: The first time Clarimonde dies during Romuald's lifetime, it is supposedly at the end of an orgy that lasted for eight days and eight nights
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* ButterflyofDeathandRebirth: Symbolically. In Clarimonde's chamber at the Concini Palace, there's a white rose that at her time of death only has one leaf left. When she fully passes on, the last leaf falls. Romuald compares it to a butterfly's wing and imagines that it takes along Clarimonde's soul when it floats out of the window. What with how many deaths there are between the vampire Clarimonde and her original human self, of course she'd be back.
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* MarkOfTheSupernatural: Clarimonde's appearance is framed as being so. She is described as having bluish-white skin, soft blonde hair yet near-black eyebrows, and "sea-green eyes of unsustainable vivacity and brilliancy.
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* MightyWhitey: Clarimonde is described as extremely white, yet all her servants (slaves, according to Abbé Sérapion) are played up as being "swarthy", "bronzed", and in one case the word "negro" is dropped.
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* TheOphelia: RegalRinglets
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* TheOphelia: RegalRinglets
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** The French place names are only given by their first letter, so it's impossible to know where in France the story is supposed to take place. Venice is named in full, because it's only a place visited.
* CityWithNoName: The French place names are only given by their first letter, so it's impossible to know where in France the story is supposed to take place. Venice is named in full, because it's only a place visited.
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* HeroesLoveDogs:HeroesLoveDogs: Romuald replaces a priest that had recently died of old age. Upon arriving at the presbytery, he's greeted by his predecessor's aged dog. Romuald [[PetTheDog pets it]] and it accepts him as his new master on the spot.
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* OldRetainer:OldRetainer: Romuald's predecessor had an elderly housekeeper, Barbara, he bequeathed all his possessions to. She'd been taking care of the presbytery until Romuald's arrival and he decides to keep her as his housekeeper so she doesn't have to move out.
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** The French place names are only given by their first letter, so it's impossible to know where in France the story is supposed to take place. Venice is named in full, because it's only a place visited.
** The French place names are only given by their first letter, so it's impossible to know where in France the story is supposed to take place. Venice is named in full, because it's only a place visited.
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* FirstLove: Long story short, Romuald had not seen a woman other than his mother until the age of twenty-four, he accidentally lays eyes upon the supernaturally beautiful and regal Clarimonde, and so delayed puberty hits him like a train for the next few hours. Even at the age of sixty-six, decades after he left her for the good of his soul, he still can't forget her.
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* FirstLove: Long story short, Romuald had not seen a woman other than his mother until the age of twenty-four, [[EatingTheEyeCandy he accidentally lays eyes upon the supernaturally beautiful and regal Clarimonde, Clarimonde]], and so delayed puberty hits him like a vengeful train for the next few hours. Even at the age of sixty-six, decades after he left her for the good of his soul, he still can't forget her. how she made him feel.
* GrandRomanticGesture: The Concini Palace was a gift from Prince Concini to the courtesan Clarimonde.
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* GrandRomanticGesture: The Concini Palace was a gift from Prince Concini to the courtesan Clarimonde.
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"The Dead Leman" ("La Morte Amoureuse"), also known in English as "Clarimonde", was written by Théophile Gautier and published in 1836 in ''La Chronique de Paris''. It is a ShortStory sitting comfortably on the border of GothicHorror and DarkFantasy. It is one of the earliest pieces of VampireFiction, which makes the titular vampire quite a bit different from what would become the definition of a vampire half a century later.
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"The Dead Leman" ("La Morte Amoureuse"), also known in English as "Clarimonde", was written by Théophile Gautier and published in 1836 in ''La Chronique de Paris''. It is a ShortStory sitting comfortably on the border of GothicHorror and DarkFantasy. It is one of the earliest pieces of VampireFiction, which makes the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent titular vampire quite a bit different different]] from what would become the definition of a vampire half a century later.
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* AntagonistTitle: "Clarimonde" is obvious, but "La Morte Amoureuse" and "The Dead Leman" also refer to her. "La Morte Amoureuse" translates as "The Dead (Female) Lover" or "The Dead (Woman) In Love". English doesn't have a good way to translate the title with the gender-specifity intact, but it still is to be understood that "The Dead Leman" refers to her.
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* AntagonistTitle: "Clarimonde" is obvious, but "La Morte Amoureuse" and "The Dead Leman" also refer to her. "La Morte Amoureuse" translates as "The Dead (Female) Lover" or "The Dead (Woman) In Love". English doesn't have a good way to translate the title with the gender-specifity gender-specificity intact, but it it's still is to be understood that "The Dead Leman" Clarimonde the title refers to her.to.
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* KissedKeepsake: For a short, hidden moment, Clarimonde catches Romuald's hand after he is ordained. When Romuald is back in his room, he kisses the spot that she touched. This is followed by a MadnessMantra of repeating "Clarimonde" for several hours.
* MentorArchetype: Abbé Sérapion.
* MentorArchetype: Abbé Sérapion.
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* RunawayBride: Invoked and played with. Romuald meets Clarimonde during his ordination and in that moment a ceremony he'd been looking forward to for years becomes a trap of which the end result will be that he can never be with her. As he continues with his vows still, he compares his situation to an unwilling bride (as well as an unwilling female novice), who despite not wanting her ceremony either goes through with it because of the insurmountable social pressure. He'd prefer to run too, but even with Clarimonde's encouragement he can't pull himself out of the happenings.
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"The Dead Leman" has been adapted twice, once as an episode of ''The Hunger'' in 1998, in which Clarimonde is reimagined as a succubus-witch hybrid, and once as an opera. Aside from what the "The Dead Leman" gave to the vampire genre, the story is also generally assumed to be one of two major sources of inspiration to ''[[Literature/TheSpider1908 The Spider]]'', which features a vampiric spider also named Clarimonde.
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"The Dead Leman" has been adapted twice, once as an episode of ''The Hunger'' in 1998, in which Clarimonde is reimagined as a succubus-witch hybrid, and once as an opera. Aside from what the "The Dead Leman" gave to the vampire genre, the story is also generally assumed to be one of two major sources of inspiration to ''[[Literature/TheSpider1908 "[[Literature/TheSpider1908 The Spider]]'', Spider]]", which features a vampiric spider also named Clarimonde.
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* AntagonistTitle: "Clarimonde" is obvious, but "La Morte Amoureuse" and "The Dead Leman" also refer to her. "La Morte Amoureuse" translates as "The Dead (Female) Lover" or "The Dead (Woman) In Love". English doesn't have a good way to translate the title with the gender-specifity intact, but it still is to be assumed in "The Dead Leman".
* CelibateHero: Overlaps with ChasteHero before Romuald meets Clarimonde. From his youngest memories, all he ever wanted to do was serve God and therefore he'd gone off to the cloister early. As such, the only woman he'd ever had interaction with was his mother, who visited him twice a year. As he puts it himself: "I knew in a vague sort of a way that there was something called Woman, but I never permitted my thoughts to dwell on such a subject, and I lived in a state of perfect innocence." Then, of course, Clarimonde shows up and Romuald stops being either kind of c-hero. It takes Sérapion banishing her with holy water for Romuald to return to the state of a CelibateHero, if one who will never know peace again.
* CelibateHero: Overlaps with ChasteHero before Romuald meets Clarimonde. From his youngest memories, all he ever wanted to do was serve God and therefore he'd gone off to the cloister early. As such, the only woman he'd ever had interaction with was his mother, who visited him twice a year. As he puts it himself: "I knew in a vague sort of a way that there was something called Woman, but I never permitted my thoughts to dwell on such a subject, and I lived in a state of perfect innocence." Then, of course, Clarimonde shows up and Romuald stops being either kind of c-hero. It takes Sérapion banishing her with holy water for Romuald to return to the state of a CelibateHero, if one who will never know peace again.
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* AntagonistTitle: "Clarimonde" is obvious, but "La Morte Amoureuse" and "The Dead Leman" also refer to her. "La Morte Amoureuse" translates as "The Dead (Female) Lover" or "The Dead (Woman) In Love". English doesn't have a good way to translate the title with the gender-specifity intact, but it still is to be assumed in understood that "The Dead Leman".
Leman" refers to her.
* CelibateHero: Overlaps with ChasteHero before Romuald meets Clarimonde. From his youngest memories, all he ever wanted to do was serve God and therefore he'd gone off to the cloister early. As such, the only woman he'd ever had interaction with was his mother, who visited him twice a year. As he puts it himself: "I knew in a vague sort of a way that there was something called Woman, but I never permitted my thoughts to dwell on such a subject, and I lived in a state of perfect innocence." Then, of course, Clarimonde shows up and Romuald stops being either kind ofc-hero.no-time-for-sex-hero. It takes Sérapion banishing her with holy water for Romuald to return to the state of a CelibateHero, if one who will never know peace again.
* CelibateHero: Overlaps with ChasteHero before Romuald meets Clarimonde. From his youngest memories, all he ever wanted to do was serve God and therefore he'd gone off to the cloister early. As such, the only woman he'd ever had interaction with was his mother, who visited him twice a year. As he puts it himself: "I knew in a vague sort of a way that there was something called Woman, but I never permitted my thoughts to dwell on such a subject, and I lived in a state of perfect innocence." Then, of course, Clarimonde shows up and Romuald stops being either kind of
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"The Dead Leman" ("La Morte Amoureuse"), also known in English as "Clarimonde", was written by Théophile Gautier and published in 1836 in ''La Chronique de Paris''. It is a ShortStory sitting comfortably on the border of GothicHorror and DarkFantasy. It is one of the earliest pieces of VampireFiction, which makes the titular vampire quite a bit different from what would become the definition of a vampire half a century later.
"The Dead Leman" has been adapted twice, once as an episode of ''The Hunger'' in 1998, in which Clarimonde is reimagined as a succubus-witch hybrid, and once as an opera. Aside from what the "The Dead Leman" gave to the vampire genre, the story is also generally assumed to be one of two major sources of inspiration to ''[[Literature/TheSpider1908 The Spider]]'', which features a vampiric spider also named Clarimonde.
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!!Tropes found in this story include:
* AntagonistTitle: "Clarimonde" is obvious, but "La Morte Amoureuse" and "The Dead Leman" also refer to her. "La Morte Amoureuse" translates as "The Dead (Female) Lover" or "The Dead (Woman) In Love". English doesn't have a good way to translate the title with the gender-specifity intact, but it still is to be assumed in "The Dead Leman".
* CelibateHero: Overlaps with ChasteHero before Romuald meets Clarimonde. From his youngest memories, all he ever wanted to do was serve God and therefore he'd gone off to the cloister early. As such, the only woman he'd ever had interaction with was his mother, who visited him twice a year. As he puts it himself: "I knew in a vague sort of a way that there was something called Woman, but I never permitted my thoughts to dwell on such a subject, and I lived in a state of perfect innocence." Then, of course, Clarimonde shows up and Romuald stops being either kind of c-hero. It takes Sérapion banishing her with holy water for Romuald to return to the state of a CelibateHero, if one who will never know peace again.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Clarimonde has died several times already, but that's not going to stop her.
* DreamWeaver: Clarimonde is an especially powerful one.
* FemmeFatale: Or TheVamp; there's arguments for either. The whole of the story is clear about her being evil, yet when she gets her say, she makes a good point for having done no harm to anyone.
* HolyBurnsEvil:
* KillItWithWater:
* OurVampiresAreDifferent:
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"The Dead Leman" has been adapted twice, once as an episode of ''The Hunger'' in 1998, in which Clarimonde is reimagined as a succubus-witch hybrid, and once as an opera. Aside from what the "The Dead Leman" gave to the vampire genre, the story is also generally assumed to be one of two major sources of inspiration to ''[[Literature/TheSpider1908 The Spider]]'', which features a vampiric spider also named Clarimonde.
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!!Tropes found in this story include:
* AntagonistTitle: "Clarimonde" is obvious, but "La Morte Amoureuse" and "The Dead Leman" also refer to her. "La Morte Amoureuse" translates as "The Dead (Female) Lover" or "The Dead (Woman) In Love". English doesn't have a good way to translate the title with the gender-specifity intact, but it still is to be assumed in "The Dead Leman".
* CelibateHero: Overlaps with ChasteHero before Romuald meets Clarimonde. From his youngest memories, all he ever wanted to do was serve God and therefore he'd gone off to the cloister early. As such, the only woman he'd ever had interaction with was his mother, who visited him twice a year. As he puts it himself: "I knew in a vague sort of a way that there was something called Woman, but I never permitted my thoughts to dwell on such a subject, and I lived in a state of perfect innocence." Then, of course, Clarimonde shows up and Romuald stops being either kind of c-hero. It takes Sérapion banishing her with holy water for Romuald to return to the state of a CelibateHero, if one who will never know peace again.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Clarimonde has died several times already, but that's not going to stop her.
* DreamWeaver: Clarimonde is an especially powerful one.
* FemmeFatale: Or TheVamp; there's arguments for either. The whole of the story is clear about her being evil, yet when she gets her say, she makes a good point for having done no harm to anyone.
* HolyBurnsEvil:
* KillItWithWater:
* OurVampiresAreDifferent:
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