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Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-hermine in the Age of Napoleon
by Alexandre Dumas
The last cavalier is also Count Hector de Sainte-Hermine, who for three years has been languishing in prison when, in 1804, on the eve of Napoleon's coronation as emperor of France, he learns what's to be his due. Stripped of his title and denied the hand of the woman he loves, he is freed by Napoleon on the condition that he serve as a common foot soldier in the imperial army. So it is in profound despair that Hector embarks on a succession of daring escapades. Again and again he wins glory - against brigands, bandits, the British; boa constrictors, sharks, crocodiles. And at the battle of Trafalgar it's his marksman's bullet that fells the famed English admiral Lord Nelson.
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Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) is one of the most famous French writers of the nineteenth century, with celebrated books such as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Apparently, the almost-complete manuscript for Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, his most recently published novel, was lost for 125 years but was discovered in the archives of the National Library in Paris in 2005.
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