Dumas' first work. One-act vaudeville comedy (farce) in couplets, written with Adolphe de Leuven. The hero is a retired officer who had fought in Waterloo and Leipzig who expresses his patriotism in rhymed couplets.
From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: About the same time, Dumas and de Leuven composed "Le Major de Strasbourg," a play in verse. A few lines have been preserved by the former, who quotes them in Chapter LXI. of his "Mémoires," otherwise this too has disappeared. Dumas states that it resembled too much a play then receiving a successful hearing, and entitled : "Le Soldat Laboureur."
