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'Musketeers' author's missing work is published
PARIS - An unfinished novel of The Three Musketeers author Alexandre Dumas, an adventure story during revolutionary France, was published for the first time as a book Friday, following its rediscovery by a French scholar.
Associated Press
Published June 5, 2005
Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine , or The Knight of Sainte-Hermine , was part of Dumas' efforts to use literature to document French history, Claude Schopp said.
The book, set at the start of the Napoleonic era, fits into a series of novels by the French writer that included The Count of Monte Christo .
Schopp said the novel tells the story of an aristocrat divided between his royalist ambitions and his fascination for Napoleon.
The Parisian scholar said he rediscovered the novel after he came across a letter 10 years ago in which Dumas mentioned Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine .
"It's amazing. What thrilled me was that the novel corresponded to the missing work in Dumas' history," he said.
Schopp found Dumas' text had been published in installments over nine months in a newspaper in 1869, the year before Dumas' death.
Schopp put the installments together and corrected grammatical and spelling mistakes. He also added 21/2 chapters to finish the last episode in the book, published Friday by Phebus.
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