''The Conspirators'' (original French title: ''Le chevalier d'Harmental'') is a novel written by Alexandre Dumas and

Auguste Maquet Auguste Maquet (; 13 September 1813 – 8 January 1888) was a French author, best known as the chief collaborator of French novelist Alexandre Dumas, père, co-writing such works as ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' and ''The Three Musketeers''. ...

, 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.Stoullig E. ''Les Annales du Théâtre et de la Musique, 22eme edition, 1896.'' G Charpentier et Cie, Paris, 1897. It was adapted into an opera, ''

Le chevalier d'Harmental ''The Conspirators'' (original French title: ''Le chevalier d'Harmental'') 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 ...

'', by

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with a libretto by

Paul Ferrier Paul Ferrier (29 March 1843 - September 1920) was a French dramatist, who also provided libretti for several composers, especially Varney and Serpette. Ferrier was born in Montpellier. He had already produced several comedies when in 1873 he ...

, which was first performed on 5 May 1896. The novel is set in 1718, and its subject is a conspiracy against the

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of Philippe d'Orléans, who led France during the infancy of

Louis XV Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (french: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached ...

. Dumas and Maquet's later novel ''

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'' features some of the same characters. George Saintsbury described the novel as "usually ranked among umas'smasterpieces"; Dumas himself felt it had both strengths and weaknesses. Richard Stowe, Dumas's biographer, called it the best of his novels set during the reign of

. A section of the novel involving a street named "rue du Temps-Perdu" (street of wasted time) may have inspired the title of Marcel Proust's ''

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''.

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