Beau Sabreur (novel)
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| Author | P. C. Wren |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | John Murray |
Publication date | 1926 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Preceded by | Beau Geste |
| Followed by | Beau Ideal |
Beau Sabreur is a 1926 novel by P. C. Wren. It was the first sequel to his 1924 novel Beau Geste and was turned into a film in 1928.
It focuses on the adventures of Major Henri de Beaujolais from adolescence to maturity as a well-connected cavalry officer in the French Army: he's an Old Etonian; his mother a Devonshire Cary; his deceased father a Frenchman; his paternal uncle the youngest General in the French Army and married to the sister of the French Minister of State for War. Starting as a one-year volunteer trooper in a hussar regiment, De Beaujolais graduates from the Saumur Cavalry School to become an officer of Spahis and a member of the French Secret Service. He appears in Wren's Beau Geste, commanding the relief column which reaches the besieged Fort Zinderneuf.
