Benedict Turpin, a French painter and adventurer, travels to Berlin, crosses Bismarck, fights two duels and is caught up in the Seven Weeks’ War of 1866. The story moves from the Hohenzollern court to the battles of Langensalza and Aschaffenburg and the Prussian occupation of Frankfurt, where a family and a love affair are torn apart.
One of Dumas’s last novels, written straight after the events, fiercely anti-Prussian, and translated by R. S. Garnett. Download the free EPUB.
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