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Scaramouche the Kingmaker

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Scaramouche the Kingmaker was written a decade after Scaramouche, and is a sequel that never quite reaches its predecessor's brilliance, but is quite satisfying to the Sabatini completist. The story continues where the original novel left off, with Andre-Louis Moreau now embracing the royalist cause to hasten his marriage to Aline. It's a good, rousing, adventure story, but it's no Scaramouche.

This book was worth the two-decade-long search it took me to find it, but more for completeness's sake than for the book itself. The story picks up where Scaramouche left off: Andre-Louis Moreau and Aline de Kercadiou have escaped from the Terror, and Moreau has renounced his revolutionary ways. Even more, his love for Aline has made him espouse the royalist cause, and he goes back into danger and adventure to help it. But will he be betrayed by the less-than-worthy nobles he seeks to help? The story is pure Sabatini, but doesn't come near the brilliance of the original _Scaramouche_. But you find out what happens.

Scaramouche an overlooked classic. The story is better than The Three Musketeers! Get a copy and read it to your kids.