One evening after dinner, while Garibaldi is boasting about his achievements to an admiring group of aristocratic Englishwomen, the young Countess Argyle asks him an awkward question: In your whole, hectic life, what is the one thing that you most regret having done? The illustrious general’s reply comes immediately: it was an injustice he inflicted… on a dog.

An expurgated version (the most notable cuts being some long anticlerical passages) of Un cas de conscience was published in the newspaper Le Soleil between 4 and 17 June 1866. This is the first time Dumas’s novella has been published in full. The amazing adventures of a Garibaldian dog are the perfect occasion to enjoy Alexandre Dumas’s narrative virtuosity.

Alexandre Dumas integrates a dog into a tale of his times. For a story within a story and some exciting adventures.