



Produced by Charles Keller





THE ADVENTURES OF GERARD

By A. Conan Doyle




     "Il etait brave mais avec cette graine de folie dans sa
     bravoure que les Francais aiment."

     FRENCH BIOGRAPHY.




PREFACE

I hope that some readers may possibly be interested in these little
tales of the Napoleonic soldiers to the extent of following them up to
the springs from which they flow. The age was rich in military material,
some of it the most human and the most picturesque that I have ever
read. Setting aside historical works or the biographies of the
leaders there is a mass of evidence written by the actual fighting men
themselves, which describes their feelings and their experiences, stated
always from the point of view of the particular branch of the service
to which they belonged