by Conan Doyle · Cluster: Adventure Fiction · Empire and Imperialism · Peril and Survival
Abstract
A series of comic adventure tales narrated by the aging Hussar Etienne Gerard, who fought through Napoleon’s campaigns and remains gloriously convinced of his own bravery, swordsmanship, and irresistibility to women. Through his boastful, self-deluding first-person voice Doyle gently satirizes both French vanity and English notions of the French, while delivering genuine derring-do — duels, sieges, and narrow escapes across Napoleonic Europe.
Capitoli / Chapters
- HOW THE BRIGADIER CAME TO THE CASTLE OF GLOOM
- HOW THE BRIGADIER SLEW THE BROTHERS OF AJACCIO
- HOW THE BRIGADIER HELD THE KING
- HOW THE KING HELD THE BRIGADIER
- HOW THE BRIGADIER TOOK THE FIELD AGAINST THE MARSHAL MILLEFLEURS
- HOW THE BRIGADIER PLAYED FOR A KINGDOM
- HOW THE BRIGADIER WON HIS MEDAL
- HOW THE BRIGADIER WAS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL
Connections
Forms & Genres: Short Story, Satire, Adventure Fiction Themes & Concepts: Honour, Heroism, Vanity, War and its Cost, Revenge Motifs: Horse, Swords and Weapons, Fire Historical References: Napoleon, Napoleonic Wars the Navy Settings: Poland, Battlefield, Europe Characters: Brigadier Gerard, Napoleon Bonaparte Archetypes: Hero Topoi: Last Stand