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Lord Claude-Alexandre de Bonneval, Colonel of the King’s Armies, General of the Infantry and Artillery in the service of His Apostolic Majesty, Chief of the Bombardiers of the Sultan Mahmoud, Governor of Karaman, Beyberley of Rumelia, Three-Tailed Pasha (the list goes on) was born in 1675 in Coussac, in southwestern France. A trained military man, he distinguished himself in many battles and hobnobbed with the greatest names of his era – Casanova, Montesquieu, Leibniz, Voltaire, Rousseau and more. This is the epic, tragic, and chaotic story of this 18th century man and the three distinct phases of his military career: a French officer under Louis XIV, a General of the Infantry for the Austrian Empire, and finally a Pasha of the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople. Libertine, swashbuckler, political agitator, double agent and apostate who switched countries and religions, the Count de Bonneval was adored and envied, slandered and admired in equal measure!
