The Conspirators 3v1q4q
by Alexandre Dumas 2r3551
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The Conspirators is a novel written by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, published in 1843. Dumas reworked a preliminary version by Maquet; this was the beginning of their collaboration which was to produce eighteen novels and many plays.
The dramatisation of the novel – in five acts, a prologue and ten tableaux – was first performed on 16 July 1849 at the Théâtre-Historique in Paris. It was adapted into an opera Le chevalier d'Harmental by André Messager with a libretto by Paul Ferrier, which was first performed on 5 May 1896.
The novel is set in 1718, and its subject is a conspiracy against the regency of Philippe d'Orléans, who led during the infancy of Louis XV. Dumas and Maquet's later novel Une fille du régent features some of the same characters.
