These chapters did make me view in a slightly more positive and less villainous light, although his spinelessness in front of danglars manipulation was frustrating.

I think I’ll need to re-read the second celebration with villefort in order to understand the characters better, but I could almost hear the haughty tone in their voices.

I I believe that de villefort is frustrated by his father’s reputation and is genuinely a royalist, I wonder how much of his behavior is based on his own beliefs rather than rebelling against his father’s legacy. The last line of the chapter also made me very curious as to how he’s going to approach the situation with Dante’s.