Dear Mr Cornwell, I read all your books and loved every one of them. I thank you very much for all these wonderful hours of reading. I find it great that you take some of your precious time to answer messages from your fans. As you probably deduced from my first sentences, English is not my first language : I’m half French, half Belgian. Though I’m a big big fan of Sharpe, I have the feeling that you are a bit unfair with the “Frogs”. Soult, for example, is almost ridiculous in your Sharpe’s Havoc novel though everything I read about him leads me to believe that he was a great soldier. Don’t you agree ? In the historical note at the end of Sharpe’s Havoc, you write that you couldn’t find news of Major Dulong after the Saltador. I found a quote about him on the napoleonic-literature.com website : he supposedly was made Colonel and died in 1828. It would be nice if Sharpe was to meet him again … I’m considering writing a novel about Dulong : do you know if it has already been done by someone before ? Thank you again for your great books : I just finished The Last Kingdom and can’t wait for the Pale Horseman !!! Fabrice CORNET