num_pages: 752
description: Selected as a Top Ten Book of the Year by The Washington Post: the newly discovered last novel by the author of The Three Musketeers. Rousing, big, spirited, its action sweeping across oceans and continents, its hero gloriously indomitable, the last novel of Alexandre Dumas—lost for 125 years in the archives of the National Library in Paris—completes the oeuvre that Dumas imagined at the outset of his literary career. Indeed, 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 no longer. Now, dynamically, in a tale of family honor and undying vengeance, of high adventure and heroic derring-do, The Last Cavalier fills that gap.
language: English
title: The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon
titlecomplete: The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon
characters: Josephine Bonaparte, Hector de Sainte-Hermine, Surcouf, Eugene de Beauharnais, Joseph Fouché, Napoléon Bonaparte, Jane de Sainte-Hermine, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Horatio Nelson, Hortense de Beauharnais, Claire de Sourdis, Coster de Saint-Victor, Georges Cadoudal, Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon, duke of Enghien
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, French Literature, Literature, Roman, Classics, Adventure, Fiction, 19th Century, France
ratings_count: 788
series: Sainte-Hermine
publisher: Pegasus Books