The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon

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