The Scarlet Pimpernel takes numerous and dangerous trips to help rescue unfortunate and innocent people from the dreaded guillotine, whilst hiding behind the facade of the 'brainless fop', Sir Percy.This collection of short stories about the exploits of the Pimpernel is wonderfully entertaining, and transports the reader back to the French Revolution where clever disguises and narrow escapes abound!
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Baroness Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865, the daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a landed aristocrat and well-known composer and conductor. Shemoved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and then Paris, where she was educated. Orczy alsostudied art in London and exhibited work atthe Royal Academy. Later sheMontagu Barstow and together they worked as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales. Fame came in1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel, which was originally a play co-written with her husband. Its background of Revolution in France and swashbuckling hero, 'Sir Percy Blakeney', was to prove immensely popular. Sequels followed and many years later film and TV versions are enduringly popular, with new productions from time to time. However, Orczy alsoalso wrote detective stories which have a following today amongst those intersted in the genre. She died in 1947.
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Sir Percy, Paul Notara, Committee of Public Safety, Docteur Lescar, Citizen Mayet, Citizen Lauzet, Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, Jean Mathis, Josephine Palmier, Judge President, Citizen Chauvelin, Garde Nationale, Chief of Section, Citizen Campon, Fernand Malzieu, Citizen Commissary, Désiré Malzieu, Georges Gradin, Lord Fanshawe, Achille Lesueur, Citizen Orgelet, Citizen Péret, Mademoiselle Aline, Lady Alicia, Mon Abris Browse Sample Pages:
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Sir Percy, Paul Notara, Committee of Public Safety, Docteur Lescar, Citizen Mayet, Citizen Lauzet, Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, Jean Mathis, Josephine Palmier, Judge President, Citizen Chauvelin, Garde Nationale, Chief of Section, Citizen Campon, Fernand Malzieu, Citizen Commissary, Désiré Malzieu, Georges Gradin, Lord Fanshawe, Achille Lesueur, Citizen Orgelet, Citizen Péret, Mademoiselle Aline, Lady Alicia, Mon Abris Browse Sample Pages:
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