John William O'Sullivan of Kerry, (a "fat, well-fed seminarian," according to his English detractors) has now left Ireland for several years. Like many of his expatriate countrymen with a taste for adventure he has served in the French Army, participating in the French campaigns in Italy and Germany. Now in his late thirties he has become a tutor to a French Count, Maillebois. O'Sullivan is finding himself "better suited for the sword than the gown" and rejoins the French army in its campaign to subdue rebel action in Corsica. There he wins a reputation as an adept at guerilla warfare and prudent warden of his dissipated commander, Maillebois (1682-1762).
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