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BRIGADIER GERARD: THE COMPLETE CHRONICLES includes THE EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD and THE ADVENURES OF BRIGAIDER GERARD featuring sixteen historical short stories by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. A seventeenth story about the hero, "The Marriage of the Brigadier", was published in September 1910. This edition combines both collections and the final story into one volume.
Brigadier Etienne Gerard is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity – he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is somewhat virtuous, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often. Obsessed with honour and glory, he is always ready with a stirring speech or a gallant remark to a lady.
The stories were originally published in the Strand Magazine between December 1894 and September 1903. They were later issued in two volumes: The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard in February 1896 and The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard in September 1903. Some of the titles were changed on re-publication. The last story, "The Marriage of the Brigadier", was published in September 1910. All the stories were published in The Complete Brigadier Gerard in 1995, which includes the story "A Foreign Office Romance" (1894) – a precursor to the stories, but not actually featuring Gerard.
Conan Doyle modelled the character of Gerard on a number of real-life sources from the Napoleonic era, writing in his author's preface that "readers will recognize the fountain from which I have drawn the adventures of Etienne Gerard."
The stories have been adapted to the screen three times and for radio eight times.
BRIGADIER GERARD: THE COMPLETE CHRONCLES
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