Lord Antony Dewhurst is 'a splendid fellow - a fine sportsman, a loyal gentleman'. The young gallant is also Percy's close friend and a lieutenant in the League. The year is 1793 and in Nantes, France, the hunting of aristocrats goes on. And over in England, the enemy has kidnapped Lord Tony's wife, Yvonne. It falls to the Scarlet Pimpernel to rescue her...
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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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Rat Mort, Paul Friche, Scarlet Pimpernel, Pierre Adet, Commandant Fleury, Yvonne de Kernogan, Sir Percy Blakeney, Lady Blakeney, Louise Adet, Jean Adet, Committee of Public Safety, National Convention, Jacques Lalouët, Yvonne Dewhurst, Lady Anthony Dewhurst, Laura Place, Lord Anthony Dewhurst, Mademoiselle Yvonne, Antoine Melun, Combwich Hall, Company Marat, Jean-Baptiste Carrier, Bottom Inn, Marguerite Blakeney, Lady Ffoulkes Browse Sample Pages:
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Rat Mort, Paul Friche, Scarlet Pimpernel, Pierre Adet, Commandant Fleury, Yvonne de Kernogan, Sir Percy Blakeney, Lady Blakeney, Louise Adet, Jean Adet, Committee of Public Safety, National Convention, Jacques Lalouët, Yvonne Dewhurst, Lady Anthony Dewhurst, Laura Place, Lord Anthony Dewhurst, Mademoiselle Yvonne, Antoine Melun, Combwich Hall, Company Marat, Jean-Baptiste Carrier, Bottom Inn, Marguerite Blakeney, Lady Ffoulkes Browse Sample Pages:
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