Name: Le maître d'armes (in French)
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Author: Alejandro Dumas
ISBN: 9781505363913

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Dumas

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

248

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.3 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9781505363913

Synopsis "Le maître d'armes (in French)"

En 1824, Grisier, jeune maître d'armes français, part pour Saint-Pétersbourg en quête de gloire et de fortune. Après un voyage éprouvant, il se lie d'amitié avec Louise Dupuis, une modiste française expatriée, et son amant le comte Alexis Vaninkoff, jeune lieutenant dans les chevaliers gardes de l'empereur. A la mort de l'empereur Alexandre, des conspirateurs, avec lesquels le comte Alexis s'est laissé entraîner par désoeuvrement, profitent du trouble faisant suite à la renonciation à la couronne de Constantin au profit de Nicolas, son jeune frère, pour essayer d'instaurer une république. Mal préparé, ce complot appelé la conspiration des décembristes, est un échec. Tous les protagonistes sont arrêtés et le comte Alexis est condamné à l'exil perpétuel en Sibérie. Malgré les difficultés, Louise obtient l'autorisation de l'empereur Nicolas I de le suivre et Grisier l'accompagne dans ce terrible voyage...

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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