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The last cavalier is also Count Hector de Sainte-Hermine, who for three years has been languishing in prison when, in 1804, on the eve of Napoleon´s coronation as emperor of France, he learns what´s to be his due. Stripped of his title and denied the hand of the woman he loves, he is freed by Napoleon on the condition that he serve as a common foot soldier in the imperial army. So it is in profound despair that Hector embarks on a succession of daring escapades. Again and again he wins glory-against brigands, bandits, the British boa constrictors, sharks, crocodiles. And at the battle of Trafalgar it´s his marksman´s bullet that fells the famed English admiral Lord Nelson. Yet however far his adventures may take him-from Burma´s jungles to the wilds of Ireland-his destiny lies always in Paris, with his father´s enemy, Napoleon.