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Violette |
Violette was the black right hand and trustee of Alexandre DelFrance, pirate captain. The black woman was awfully cruel and barbaric. Just like her master. And perhaps this was the reason Alexandre allowed her next to him. Usually, the pirate captain just locked away pretty women in his harem.
The band of pirates were specialized in robbing slave traders. One day they entered a vessel sailing to the new world. Violette led the attack and she noticed a young one handed man who defended himself firmly and killed several of her men. Violette wanted to take out the man herself, but then she noticed that he held a sketch book against his breast, almost defending it with his life. They ware paintings and sketches of nude women and Violette liked them. She anticipated that Alexandre might like them too and so the life of the one handed artist, Louis Paulus, was spared.
Once on the island where they had their hideout, Alexandre and Violette devised a scheme to make use of the painter by stealing his identity and eventually steal everything he owned in the civilized world. The role of violette was to gain his thrust and confidence by entertaining him as good as she could. And so is happened. Hidden in the smoke of canon fire from a British warship that came to destroy the pirates nest, Alexandre and Violette sailed away to Europe. In Paris Alexandre had to prove before court that he was the artist Louis. The plan stood firmly for some time, but in the end the whole thing blue up in their faces. Violet died like she had lived. She walked into a trap and was killed by a sword. She had met an opponent better then she was.
For the Dutch edition De wraak van graaf Skarbek, © Dargaud 2004
Artwerk taken from vol.2 Een bronzen hart
