"Brigadier Gerard Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of 17 historical short stories, a play, and a major character in a novel by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity – he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often. Obsessed with honour"
"with it and adopted short hair. Hussars had a reputation for being the dashing, if unruly, adventurers of the army. The traditional image of the hussar is of a reckless, hard-drinking, womanising, moustachioed swashbuckler. General Lasalle, an archetypal hussar officer, epitomized this attitude by his remarks, among which the most famous is: ""Any hussar who is not dead by the age of thirty is a blackguard."" He died at the Battle of Wagram at the age of 34. Arthur Conan Doyle's character Brigadier Etienne Gerard of the French Hussards de Conflans has come to epitomise the hussar of popular fiction"
"learned it from an officer of the Irish Brigade of the French Army. By 1810 he is colonel of the 2nd Hussars. He serves in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Russia. He is awarded the Grand-Cross of the Légion d'honneur by Napoleon in 1814. There are various discrepancies in the accounts of his life, not the least that in none of the stories except the last is he married. Conan Doyle enthusiasts have noted that Gerard is modelled on the real-life Baron Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcellin de Marbot, a noted French light cavalry officer during the Napoleonic Wars. Conan Doyle"
"version of the short novel ""Uncle Bernac"". A 1927 film with Rod La Rocque as Gerard had the title ""The Fighting Eagle"". In 1970 ""The Adventures of Gerard"" was directed by Jerzy Skolimowski with Peter McEnery playing Gerard. As of 2014 television and movie writer John Altschuler is developing Brigadier Gerard as a feature, with Steve Carell attached to play Brigadier Gerard and Ricky Gervais attached to play Napoleon. Brigadier Gerard Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of 17 historical short stories, a play, and a major character in a novel by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle."
"In the short story ""Flashman and the Tiger"" by George MacDonald Fraser, Fraser's anti-hero Harry Flashman sets out to murder Moran, who is blackmailing Flashman's granddaughter. He trails Moran to Camden House, but instead witnesses Holmes capture him. The Adventure of the Empty House ""The Adventure of the Empty House"", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as ""The Return of Sherlock Holmes"". Public pressure forced Conan Doyle to bring the sleuth back to life, and explain his apparently miraculous survival of"
"Maurice Leblanc Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (; ; 11 November 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. Leblanc was born in Rouen, Normandy, where he was educated at Lycée Pierre-Corneille. After studying in several countries and dropping out of law school, he settled in Paris and began to write fiction, both short crime stories and longer novels. The latter, heavily influenced by writers like Gustave Flaubert"
"its own right. The plaster statue was replaced by a concrete copy in 1985. Ogier the Dane Ogier the Dane (; ) is a legendary knight of Charlemagne who appears in many Old French ""chansons de geste"". In particular, he features as the protagonist in ""La chevalerie Ogier"" (ca. 1220), which belongs to the ""Geste de Doon de Mayence"" (""cycle of the rebellious vassals""). The first part of this epic, the ""enfance""[""s""] (childhood exploits) of Ogier, is marked by his duel against a Saracen from whom he obtains the sword Corte, followed by victory over another Saracen opponent from whom"
"The Adventure of the Six Napoleons ""The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as ""The Return of Sherlock Holmes"". Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a seemingly trivial problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon. One was shattered in Morse Hudson’s shop, and two others, sold by Hudson to a Dr. Barnicot, were smashed after the doctor’s house and branch office had been burgled. Nothing else was taken. In the former case,"
"and glory, he is always ready with a stirring speech or a gallant remark to a lady. Conan Doyle, in making his hero a vain, and often rather uncomprehending, Frenchman, was able to satirise both the stereotypical English view of the French and – by presenting them from Gerard's baffled point of view – English manners and attitudes. Gerard tells the stories from the point of view of an old man now living in retirement in Paris. We discover that he was born in Gascony in the early 1780s (he is 25 in ""How the Brigadier Captured Saragossa""). In ""How"
"Fayette. He appears in Voltaire's epic poem ""La Henriade"" (1723). He is one of the characters in Alexandre Dumas's novel ""La Reine Margot"" and its sequels, ""La Dame de Monsoreau"" and ""The Forty-Five Guardsmen"". Stanley Weyman's novel ""A Gentleman of France"" includes the Duke of Guise in its tale about the War of the Three Henries. Ken Follett's novel ""A Column of Fire"" features Henry, Duke of Guise as a prominent character, and explores his involvement with the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. The Duke is a leading character in the play ""The Massacre at Paris"", by Christopher Marlowe. George Onslow's"
"Stories"", ""Blue Book"", ""Action Stories"", ""Adventure"" and ""Argosy"". ""Short Stories"", in particular, included a lot of Foreign Legion stories. In 1940, a Munsey pulp, ""Foreign Legion Adventures"" reprinted stories from early-30s issues of ""Argosy""; it only lasted two issues. Certain authors specialized in these stories. Among the most popular were J.D. Newsom, Bob Du Soe, Theodore Roscoe, and Georges Surdez. Agiere Duke considers joining the forign legion in the Disney movie ""The Happiest Millionaire""]]. thanks French Foreign Legion in popular culture The French Foreign Legion is commonly portrayed in literature as a refuge for the wronged, as well as scoundrels"
"Ogier the Dane Ogier the Dane (; ) is a legendary knight of Charlemagne who appears in many Old French ""chansons de geste"". In particular, he features as the protagonist in ""La chevalerie Ogier"" (ca. 1220), which belongs to the ""Geste de Doon de Mayence"" (""cycle of the rebellious vassals""). The first part of this epic, the ""enfance""[""s""] (childhood exploits) of Ogier, is marked by his duel against a Saracen from whom he obtains the sword Corte, followed by victory over another Saracen opponent from whom he wins the horse Broiefort. In subsequent parts, Ogier turns into a rebel with"
"Comte d'Artagnan, well-known through his fictionalized depiction in Alexandre Dumas's ""The Three Musketeers"" and its sequels. In 1966, the book was adapted into a film titled ""Angélique et le Roy"". After many trials, Angelique finally takes her place in Louis XIV's court alongside her new husband, who is the Marshal of France, Philippe de Plessis du Bellière. She has many problems with her new husband, who despises her for having blackmailed him into marriage. Eventually, she starts loving him (and vice versa) but he gets killed in the King's war at the Low Countries. She earns the undivided attention of"
"to see the opera ""Les Huguenots"" starring Jean de Reszke. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote this story shortly after returning to his home Undershaw from South Africa, where he had worked as a volunteer physician at the Langman Field Hospital in Bloemfontein at the time of the Second Boer War. Conan Doyle had not written about Sherlock Holmes in eight years, having killed off the character in the 1893 story ""The Final Problem"". Although ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" is set before the latter events, two years later Conan Doyle would bring Holmes back for good, explaining in ""The Adventure"
"cook was known as a bhandary. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a Lascar foil to Sherlock Holmes in ""The Man with the Twisted Lip"". Lascars aboard the ship ""Patna"" figure prominently in the early chapters of Joseph Conrad's novel ""Lord Jim"". Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel ""A Little Princess"" features a lascar named Ram Dass. Also, Caleb Carr portrays two lascars as bodyguards for a Spanish diplomat near the end of ""The Angel of Darkness"". In ""Wuthering Heights"", it is speculated that Heathcliff, the main character, may be of lascar origin. Amitav Ghosh's book ""Sea of Poppies"" portrays the British East"
"to Ogier, ""Aye d’Avignon"", the fragmentary ""Doon de Nanteuil"", ""Gui de Nanteuil"", ""Tristan de Nanteuil"", ""Parise la Duchesse"", ""Maugis d’Aigremont"", ""Vivien l’amachour de Monbranc"", ""Renaus de Montauban"" (or ""Les Quatre Fils Aymon"") and ""Huon de Bordeaux"". Doon de Mayence Doon de Mayence was a fictional hero of the Old French ""chansons de geste"", who gives his name to the third cycle of the Charlemagne romances dealing with the feudal revolts. There is no single unifying theme in the ""geste"" of Doon de Mayence. The rebellious barons are connected by the poets with Doon by fictitious genealogical ties and all are"
"Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published ""A Study in Scarlet"", the first of four novels about Holmes and Dr. Watson. In addition, Doyle wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer; his non-Sherlockian works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic"
"link between medical investigation and the detection of crime. Other inspirations have been considered. One is thought to be Francis ""Tanky"" Smith, a policeman and master of disguise who went on to become Leicester's first private detective. Another might be ""Maximilien Heller"", by French author Henry Cauvain. It is not known if Conan Doyle read ""Maximilien Heller"", but he was fluent in French, and in this 1871 novel (sixteen years before the first adventure of Sherlock Holmes), Henry Cauvain imagined a depressed, anti-social, polymath, cat-loving, and opium-smoking Paris-based detective. Details about Sherlock Holmes' life are scarce in Conan Doyle's stories."
"was shot between the eyes by an Hungarian grenadier and was killed instantly. Marulaz tried to avenge Lasalle by leading a hussar regiment against a square of Austrian infantry, but was wounded in the attempt and had to be carried to the rear. Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle Antoine-Charles-Louis, Comte de Lasalle (10 May 1775, Metz6 July 1809, Wagram) was a French cavalry general during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, often called ""The Hussar General"". He first gained fame for his role in the Capitulation of Stettin. Over the course of his short career, he became known as a daring"
"Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle Antoine-Charles-Louis, Comte de Lasalle (10 May 1775, Metz6 July 1809, Wagram) was a French cavalry general during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, often called ""The Hussar General"". He first gained fame for his role in the Capitulation of Stettin. Over the course of his short career, he became known as a daring adventurer and was credited with many exploits. Eventually, he fought on every front and was killed at the Battle of Wagram. Antoine Lasalle was born on 10 May 1775 in Metz, Lorraine province, into a family of minor nobility. His father was Pierre"
"Doon de Mayence Doon de Mayence was a fictional hero of the Old French ""chansons de geste"", who gives his name to the third cycle of the Charlemagne romances dealing with the feudal revolts. There is no single unifying theme in the ""geste"" of Doon de Mayence. The rebellious barons are connected by the poets with Doon by fictitious genealogical ties and all are represented as opposing Charlemagne, although their adventures—insofar as they possess a historical basis—generally occur before (or after) his reign. The general insolence of their attitude to the sovereign suggests that Charlemagne is here only a pseudonym"
"Quasimodo Quasimodo (from Quasimodo Sunday) is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the novel ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" (1831) by Victor Hugo. Quasimodo was born with a hunchback and feared by the townspeople as a sort of monster, but he finds sanctuary in an unlikely love that is fulfilled only in death. The role of Quasimodo has been played by many actors in film and stage adaptations, including Lon Chaney, Sr. (1923), Charles Laughton (1939) and Anthony Quinn (1956), as well as Tom Hulce in the 1996 Disney animated adaptation, and most recently Michael Arden in the 2016"
"the death of English leader Thomas Dagworth. It reaches its apogee in de La Borderie's ""Histoire de Bretagne"", according to which his control of Ploërmel is distinguished by ""rapacity and cruelty"" and a ""brutality, a ferocity all his own"". His virtuous opponent de Beaumanoir challenges him after receiving desperate victims of his brutality into Josselin. The arrogant Bemborough taunts him, but gets his just deserts at the hands of Beaumanoir's men at the Combat. An alternative point of view is portrayed in Arthur Conan Doyle's historical novel ""Sir Nigel"", in which Bemborough (called Richard of Bambro in the novel) is"
"French. It was later gathered together with ""Conan the Liberator"" and ""Conan and the Spider God"" into the omnibus collection ""Sagas of Conan"" (Tor Books, January 2004). The seven short stories collected as ""Conan the Swordsman"" are set at various points of Conan's career, from his youth as a raider in the north to his maturity as a general in the kingdom of Aquilonia. The two associated non-fiction pieces by de Camp are on the Conan saga in general and the derivation of the names used by Howard for constructing the fictional ""Hyborian Age"" setting of the Conan stories. Chronologically,"
"the novel ""La Dame de Monsoreau"" by Alexandre Dumas, père. David R. Slavitt featured d'Amboise in his 2011 novel ""The Duke's Man"". Louis de Bussy d'Amboise Louis de Clermont, seigneur de Bussy d'Amboise (1549–1579) was a gentleman at the court of French king Henri III, a swordsman, dandy, and a lover of both sexes. He was one of the favourites, or ""mignons"", of ""Monsieur"", brother of the king. He was a cousin of François d'Amboise. Of a noble family (his great-uncle was a cardinal), he entered the service of Prince François, Duke of Anjou, the younger brother and rival of"
"new boots, a shave, and his first ration of bread & salt in months. In ""Sharpe's Escape"" (2004), one of Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe novels (which were partly inspired by ""Death to the French""), a Rifleman named Matthew Dodd is separated from Sharpe's company in a skirmish during the Peninsular Campaign in 1810. Cornwell has acknowledged on his website that this character is intended to be the same individual depicted by Forester in ""Death to the French"". Death to the French Death to the French is a 1932 novel of the Peninsular War during the Napoleonic Wars, written by C."
"name to the literary movement les Hussards. In a 1952 article for ""Les Temps modernes"", the journalist Bernard Frank tried to define the movement and its extent. He identified Nimier as its leader and used Nimier's most famous novel to coin the movement's name. The Blue Hussar The Blue Hussar () is a 1950 novel by the French writer Roger Nimier. Set in Germany in 1945-1946, it tells the story of ten French hussars who operate in the French occupation army right after World War II. The perspective shifts between several different people. At the centre are the ambivalent François"
"precedes their arrival and serves to dampen their spirit until a visit by the French seneschal Robert of Beaumanoir, Master of Josselin. The French lord proposes a passage of arms, and since a reason would be necessary to justify such a violation of the truce, to the two kings of England and France, he proceeds to pick a mock-quarrel with Nigel Loring. Beaumanoir observes that ""we have none of the highest of Brittany ... neither a Blois, nor a Leon, nor a Rohan, nor a Conan, fights in our ranks this day"". Conan was in fact the personal name of"
"take place, and Madame Husson crowns the village idiot, Isidore, as the 'rosier' (Rose King). He uses his reward to ""slum it"" in Paris. Le Rosier de Madame Husson Le Rosier de Madame Husson is a novella by Guy de Maupassant, published in 1887. The hero is a young virtuous boy, the equivalent of a Rose Queen. The story was adapted by the English composer Benjamin Britten for his comic opera ""Albert Herring"" with a libretto by Eric Crozier who transposed it entirely to an English setting. Madame Husson, the model of virtue in Gisors, is promoting chastity in her"
"between his army and Fierebras of Alexander, in which the Crown of Thorns and other relics are recaptured for the Christians. ""Ogier le Danois"" links the tales of Charlemagne with Arthurian legends, as common characters and places are introduced. Ogier, the Danish hero and enemy of Charlemagne, marries an English princess and becomes King of England, bearing a son by Morgan le Fee while he is shipwrecked on Avalon. ""Quatre fils Aimon"" or ""Le livre de Renault de Montauban"" tells the story of four brothers who flee from persecution by Charlemagne, going on a crusade on Bayard, the magic horse."
"7 discussed Dahomey Amazons and showed a photo. Referenced in Stieg Larsson's novel ""The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"" in the prelude to Part 4 ""Rebooting System"". The warriors are also mentioned in Patrick O'Brian's novel ""The Commodore"", book 17 of the Aubrey-Maturin series. The main character of Charles R. Saunders fantasy novel ""Dossouye"", an ahosi of Abomey, is closely modelled on the Dahomey ahosi. P. C. Wren's 1917 book of short stories ""Stepsons of France"" contains a story called """"Here are Ladies"""", describing a series of clashes between troops of the Foreign Legion and the Dahomey Amazons. The"
"Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle, civil rights activist Booker T. Washington, and Mark Twain. Conan Doyle wrote ""The Crime of the Congo"" in 1908, while Twain gave the most famous contribution with the satirical short story ""King Leopold's Soliloquy"". Conrad and Ford Madox Ford also included a devastating parody of Leopold II in their cowritten novel ""The Inheritors"". Morel's best allies, however, may have been the Christian missionaries who furnished him with eyewitness accounts and photographs of the atrocities, such as those given by the Americans William Morrison and William Henry Sheppard, and the British John Hobbis Harris and"
"historically inhabited by Basque-related people who appear to have spoken a language similar to Basque. The name Gascony comes from the same root as the word Basque (see Wasconia below). From medieval times until today, the Gascon language has been spoken, although it is classified as a regional variant of the Occitan language. Gascony is the land of d'Artagnan, who inspired Alexandre Dumas's character d'Artagnan in ""The Three Musketeers"". It is also home to Henry III of Navarre, who later became king of France as Henry IV. In pre-Roman times, the inhabitants of Gascony were the Aquitanians (), who spoke"