On the day of Waterloo a man dressed as a beggar walks the road from Toulon: Joachim Murat, cavalry marshal of Napoleon and lately King of Naples, now a fugitive. Dumas follows him from hiding in Provence to Corsica, where crowds cheer him despite his false name, and on to his ill-fated landing at Pizzo in Calabria.
A short, vivid piece of narrative history from Dumas’s Celebrated Crimes, ideal for readers of his Napoleonic fiction. Download the free EPUB.