[finnigan2]

" Dumas could really tell a story."

"Here we are in the Tuileries,' said first consul Bonaparte to his first secretary Bourrienne, as they entered the palace where Louis XVI made his penultimate residence between Versaille and the scaffold. 'We must make certain that we stay here.'"

- Given that the above is supposedly the first sentence from this "lost masterpiece", you've got to be kidding, right? It's the closest thing to, "It was a dark and stormy night" that I've ever read.

[tet68]

Bonapart was telling his secretary that they must not
end up on the gibbet.