"The Last Cavalier" was originally published in France in 2005 under the title "Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine." Prebble, Simon,
Summary:
Set against the smoking ruins of post-revolutionary France, "The Last Cavalier" is the story of Hector, the Count de Sainte-Hermine, whose elder brothers and father have fought and died for the failed Royalist cause. For three years Hector has been languishing in prison when, 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, courting death fearlessly. Again and again he wins glory -- against brigands, bandits, 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 back in Paris with his father's enemy, Napoleon.--back cover
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