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n. A gallant warrior; a handsome or dashing adventurer.
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Beau Sabreur is a 1928 American silent film directed by John Waters and starring Gary Cooper and Evelyn Brent. Based on the novel Beau Sabreur by P. C. Wren, who also wrote Beau Geste, the film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the Legion and is then sent on a mission among the Arabs to conclude the signing of a crucial peace treaty. Produced by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation and distributed by Paramount Pictures, only a trailer exists of this film today. The released feature version is a lost film.
In the original novel the lead character Major Henri de Beaujolais is an officer of spahis (Algerian colonial cavalry of the French Army) and has no connection with the better known Foreign Legion. In all surviving stills of Beau Sabreur Gary Cooper is shown wearing the distinctive spahi uniform and it is not clear whether the lost film was intended to be a Foreign Legion epic.
Beau Sabreur is a 1926 novel by P.C. Wren. It was the first sequel to Beau Geste and was turned into a film in 1928.
It focuses on the adventures of Major De Beaujolais, an officer in the French Foreign legion. He featured briefly at the beginning of the novel Beau Geste.
The New York Times complained about the "preposterous plot and inconceivable characters."
Usage examples of "beau sabreur".
Also, what he said about Pfyfe would have verified the case against that Beau Sabreur, if you had happened to suspect him, eh, what?
So there I was, in '42, big, bluff, handsome Harry, beloved of London society, admired at the Horse Guards (although I was only a captain), possessed of a beautiful wife, apparently affluent, seen in the best company, gushed at by the mamas, respected by the men as the perfect beau sabreur.
As so often in the past, I was the victim of my own glorious and entirely unearned reputation - Flashy, the hero of Jallalabad, the last man out of the Kabul retreat and the first man into the Balaclava battery, the beau sabreur of the Light Cavalry, Queen's Medal, Thanks of Parliament, darling of the mob, with a liver as yellow as yesterday's custard, if they'd only known it.
They looked at each other, blushing and respectful in the presence of the celebrated beau sabreur.