Dumas, Alexandre,  1802-1870 <br/><br/>
Gabriel Lambert 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Lambert  Release date is 2014-09-01 
<br/><br/>E-text prepared by Madeleine Fournier and Marc D'Hooghe (http://www.freeliterature.org) from page images generously made available by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/home)  E-text prepared by Madeleine Fournier and Marc D'Hooghe (http://www.freeliterature.org) from page images generously made available by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/home) 
<br/><br/> "Gabriel Lambert" by Alexandre Dumas is a novel published in 1844 as a newspaper serial. A poor young man with a talent for forgery fabricates a new identity to climb into Parisian high society. When his counterfeiting scheme is exposed, he faces execution, but his sentence is commuted to hard labor in the penal colony. The story explores themes of social ambition, identity, and capital punishment through a frame narrative that begins with a mysterious encounter in Toulon and unfolds through discovered documents. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Impostors and imposture -- Fiction France -- Fiction Forgers -- Fiction Cowardice -- Fiction French fiction -- 19th century 
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