Name: Le chevalier d'Harmental (in French)
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Author: Alejandro Dumas
ISBN: 9781530873562

portada Le chevalier d'Harmental (in French)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Dumas

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

284

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.5 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN13

9781530873562

Synopsis "Le chevalier d'Harmental (in French)"

Le Chevalier d'Harmental est un roman historique d'Alexandre Dumas, publie en 1843. Le roman met en scene la conspiration d'une partie de la noblesse contre le regent de France Philippe d'Orleans. Raoul d'Harmental, jeune aristocrate monte a Paris en 1711, est un aventurier plutot susceptible et impetueux. S'etant illustre a la derniere victoire de Louis XIV, nomme colonel a cette occasion, d'Harmental se trouve apres la mort du roi mele au conflit qui oppose le parti des princes legitimes et celui des batards. Philippe d'Orleans, prince legitime, est regent de France alors que Louis XV est encore enfant. D'Harmental se voit d'abord retirer son regiment, ce qui ne laisse pas de le contrarier. Apres son regiment, c'est sa maitresse, Sophie d'Averne, que le regent lui enleve."

Alejandro Dumas

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Alexandre Dumas is one of the most prolific and popular authors from France. He was born in 1802 in the city of Villers-Cotterets, and soon moved to Paris to work as a secretary for the Duke of Orléans. There, he completed his education on his own and began to take an interest in writing.
He started by writing plays, and then moved on to poems and long stories. However, his real success did not come until 1844, the year he released the work that would catapult him to fame: The Three Musketeers. The serial publication of this novel brought him a huge sum of money, but it also meant countless hours of work, many collaborators, and the production of up to eighty installments to meet the growing public demand.
After the publication of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas amassed a great fortune. However, his hedonistic nature led him to squander all he had earned and he soon found himself forced to exile in Belgium to escape his French creditors.
The Count of Monte Cristo, the pinnacle of the author's narrative, is considered one of the greatest adventure novels of all time.

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