Beau Ideal Author:Percival Christopher Wren 1925. Wren immortalized the French Foreign Legion in Beau Geste and many other novels of high adventure and romance. Beau Ideal is the sequel to Beau Geste. Contents: Prologue; The Story of Otis Vanbrugh; Epilogue. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 0766194272, 0766193594.