The Knight of Sainte-Hermine is an unfinished historical novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is believed to be Dumas' last major work, and the story was lost until 2005, when it was announced that an almost-complete copy had been found in the form of a newspaper serial. While a number of his previously forgotten works have been unearthed, this is the largest at 900 pages. The story is a swashbuckling tale set during the rise of the Napoleonic Empire. A key scene features the Battle of Trafalgar, and the death of the British admiral Horatio Nelson. The novel concludes the story started in the 1857... novel The Companions of Jehu , and continued in the 1867 novel The Whites and the Blues . It was published in installments from January 1, 1869 to November of the same year in the French newspaper Le Moniteur Universel. While there were a number of errors caused by the rush to publish in a serialized form, the newspaper carried almost the entire novel. Only a short section was missing at the end, presumably due to illness. Dumas died in 1870.
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