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New Dumas Novel

Tue Mar 22 12:09:47 PST 2005

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Newly discovered Dumas novel to be published
Last Updated Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:56:54 EST
CBC Arts 
 PARIS - A previously unknown novel by Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three
Musketeers, has been discovered in Paris, according to newspaper Le Figaro. 

Claude Schopp, a biographer and expert on Dumas's work, found the text in
the French national library. 

The 900-page work is called The Knight of Ste-Hermine and will be published
in June by Phebus. It is the third book in a trilogy also including The
Companions of Jehu. 

Most of the book was serialized in Le Moniteur Universel in 1869. But Dumas,
already sick, died in 1870 without publishing it. 

Schopp edited the work and wrote the final lines of the book himself - they
will appear in italics. 

Dumas was born in 1802 in France, the son of a mulatto general who served
under Napoleon. He made a considerable income from his writing, but spent it
just as quickly, dying penniless.