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Doyle: The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: Rupert Degas
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With a horse between his thighs and a weapon in his grip, the dashing Brigadier Etienne Gerard, Colonel of the Hussars of Conflans, gallops through the Napoleonic campaigns on secret missions for his beloved Emperor and his country. He encounters danger and hair-breadth escapes but never loses his bravado, his eye for a pretty girl, his boastfulness or his enormous vanity.

Gerard is Conan Doyle’s most lovable character. At times hilarious, at times touching, these stories are amongst Conan Doyle’s most popular.

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Conan Doyle originally published the humorous stories in this 1896 anthology in "Strand" magazine, where Sherlock Holmes had long comfortably dwelled. These are the first-person war stories of Etienne Gerard, a dandyish, opinionated, conceited, randy, dull-witted, and fearless officer in Napoleon's army. In the canon of satirical military figures Gerard stands (at attention, of course) squarely between Baron Munchausen and the Good Soldier Schweik. Militarism, English boorishness, and French arrogance get the worst from Conan Doyle here. Narrator Rupert Degas exhibits plenty of vigor but little comic finesse. He plays Gerard with a French accent and fully voices the other characters, playing the various accents convincingly while skimping on characterization.
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It is going to be hard to find another audio book I’ll enjoy as much as this one. The stories, of course, are brilliant but Rupert Degas really brings Etienne Gerard to life with his consistently well-judged narration. All the stories from the Exploits of Brigardier Gerard are included. There is a second volume called The Adventures of Gerard, which I’ll have to search for. There is also a story called A Foreign Office Romance. It would be great if Rupert Degas has recorded them all, though I don’t think he has.

Excellent performance from Rupert Degas

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how have I not discovered these stories before now!? Beautifully read and performed by Rupert Degas - he adds humour and atmosphere where you don't necessarily expect it!

Bite-sized stories by a superb story teller - the Napoleonic war from a very different point of view!

if Flashman had been French!

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