Alexandre Dumas

The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-hermine in the Age of Napoleon Alexandre Dumas Library, Unabridged Library edition

The story of France from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, as Dumas vibrantly retold it in his numerous enormously popular novels, has long been absent one vital, richly historical era: the Age of Napoleon. But not any longer. Now dynamically, in a tale of family honor and undying vengeance, of high adventure and heroic derring-do, the newly discovered The Last Cavalier fills that gap. It is rousing, big spirited, its action sweeping across oceans and continents, its hero gloriously indomitable. Hector, Count de Sainte-Hermine, fought for the Royalists during the French Revolution. Freed from prison by Napoleon but forced to serve in his imperial forces, Hector, in profound despair, flings himself into a series of daring escapades as he courts death fearlessly. But his destiny lies always with his father's enemy, Napoleon.