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The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon
Alexandre Dumas
The lost final novel by the master of the epic swashbuckling adventure stories: The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.The last cavalier is Count de Sainte-Hermine, Hector, whose elder brothers and father have fought and died for the Royalist cause during the French Revolution. For three years Hector has been languishing in prison when, in 1804, on the eve of Napoleon's coronation as emperor of France he learns what is to be his due. Stripped of his title, denied the honour of his family name as well as the hand of the woman he loves, he is freed by Napoleon on the condition that he serves in the imperial forces. So it is in profound despair that Hector embarks on a succession of daring escapades as he courts death fearlessly. Yet again and again he wins glory - against brigands, bandits, the British, boa constrictors, sharks, tigers and crocodiles. At the Battle of Trafalgar it is his bullet that fells Nelson. But however far his adventures take him - from Burma's jungles to the wilds of Ireland - his destiny lies always with his father's enemy, Napoleon.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
The Last Cavalier
Being the Adventures of COUNT SAINTE-HERMINE in the Age of Napoleon
Translated by LAUREN YODER
CONTENTS
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PART I - BONAPARTE
I - Josephine’s Debts
II - How the Free City of Hamburg Paid Josephine’s Debts
III - The Companions of Jehu
IV - The Son of the Miller of La Guerche
V - The Mousetrap
VI - The Combat of the One Hundred
VII - Blues and Whites
VIII - The Meeting
IX - Two Companions at Arms
X - Two Young Women Put Their Heads Together
XI - Madame de Permon’s Ball
XII - The Queen’s Minuet
XIII - The Three Sainte-Hermines
XIV - Léon de Sainte-Hermine
XV - Charles de Sainte-Hermine [I]
XVI - Mademoiselle de Fargas
XVII - The Ceyzériat Caves
XVIII - Charles de Sainte-Hermine [2]
XIX - The End of Hector’s Story
XX - Fouché
XXI - In Which Fouché Works to Return to the Ministry of Police, Which He Has Not Yet Left
XXII - In Which Mademoiselle de Beauharnais Becomes the Wife of a King without a Throne and Mademoiselle de Sourdis the Widow of a Living Husband
XXIII - The Burning Brigades
XXIV - Counterorders
XXV - The Duc d’Enghien [I]
XXVI - In the Vernon Forest
XXVII - The Bomb
XXVIII - The Real Perpetrators
XXIX - King Louis of Parma
XXX - Jupiter on Mount Olympus
XXXI - War
XXXII - Citizen Régnier’s Police and Citizen Fouché’s Police
XXXIII - Empty-Handed
XXXIV - The Revelations of a Man Who Hanged Himself
XXXV - The Arrests
XXXVI - George
XXXVII - The Duc d’Enghien [2]
XXXVIII - Chateaubriand
XXXIX - The Embassy in Rome
XL - Resolve
XLI - Via Dolorosa
XLII - Suicide
XLIII - The Trial
XLIV - In the Temple
XLV - In the Courtroom
XLVI - The Sentencing
XLVII - The Execution
PART II - NAPOLEON
XLVIII - After Three Years in Prison
XLIX - Saint-Malo
L - Madame Leroux’s Inn
LI - The Fake English Ship
LII - Surcouf
LIII - The Officers on the Revenant
LIV - Getting Under Way
LV - Tenerife
LVI - Crossing the Line
LVII - The Slave Ship
LVIII - How the American Captain Got Forty-Five Thousand Francs instead of the Five Thousand He Was Asking For
LIX - Île de France
LX - On Land
LXI - The Return [I]
LXII - The New York Racer
LXIII - The Guardian
LXIV - Malay Pirates
LXV - Arrival
LXVI - Pegu
LXVII - The Trip
LXVIII - The Emperor Snake
LXIX - Brigands
LXX - The Steward’s Family
LXXI - The Garden of Eden
LXXII - The Colony
LXXIII - The Vicomte de Sainte-Hermine Is Buried
LXXIV - Tigers and Elephants
LXXV - Jane’s Illness
LXXVI - Delayed Departure
LXXVII - Indian Nights
LXXVIII - Preparations for a Wedding
LXXIX - The Wedding
LXXX - Eurydice
LXXXI - Return to Pegu
LXXXII - Two Captures
LXXXIII - Return to Chien-de-Plomb
LXXXIV - A Visit to the Governor
LXXXV - A Collection for the Poor
LXXXVI - Departure
LXXXVII - What Was Happening in Europe
LXXXVIII - Emma Lyonna
LXXXIX - In Which Napoleon Sees That Sometimes It Is More Difficult to Control Men Than Fortune
