The sequel to Beau Geste: the ripping 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 Cavalry School of Saumur to become an officer of Spahis and a member of the French Secret Service. The Major faces the struggle between love for his country and the love of a woman. Highly romantic - but it was published in 1926! Regarded as the 'French' novel of the Beau series with Beau Geste as the English novel and Beau Ideal as the American novel.