The Last Cavalier
Being the Adventures of Count SainteHermine in the Age of Napoleon

A lost masterpiece? Not for me. The frequent disruption to narrative thrust noted by another reviewer eventually became too much - I gave upon page 421. Dumas' strengths are undeniably there but payment by quantity undermines him. When Napoleon goes to hear a performance of The Creation, most of a p......more

My impressions of the book are somewhat different now on the heels of reading the two earlier Sainte-Hermine novels, compared with my inaugural reading in 2017, before having read them. The factor principally responsable is the tremendous amount of recapitulation Dumas undertakes in a heroic effort......more

Ce troisième volet de la trilogie qui comprend aussi "les Blancs et les Bleus" et "les compagnons de Jéhu" a été retrouvé presque par hasard... en fait, il était sorti en feuilleton dans Le Moniteur, mais Dumas n'avait pas eu le temps de le réviser pour le faire paraître en ouvrage, et d'ailleurs il......more

The historical half, about Napoleon, was fascinating, but the fictional hero's sad perfection suffered drastically in contrast with the dynamic and decidedly flawed Napoleon.......more

Awesome! I wanna read it again.the longer version of course. In the future. Maybe......more