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10/06/2005
New Dumas novel on sale - 135 years after author's death
A newly discovered novel by The Three Musketeers author Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) has just been published in France.
The 1,000 page book, Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, is the story of an aristocrat torn between revulsion against the French Revolution and fascination with the Emperor Napoleon.
It was found in the National Library ten years ago by Dumas expert Claude Schopp who has since revised the text and added two-and-a-half chapters to the end of it.
Although Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine was first serialised in a French newspaper in the 1860s, it was not finished by Dumas when he died in 1870.
Negotiations are under way for the film rights to the book and for translations into English and a dozen other languages.
Dumas, who also wrote The Man in the Iron Mask, The Count of Monte-Cristo and The Black Tulip, is one of the most famous French writers of the 19th century.
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