The year is 1793, the darkest days of the French revolution, and little Charles-L¿on is ill. The delicate son of Louise and Bastien de Croissy is recommended country air, but travel permits are needed - and impossible to come by. Louise's friend, Josette, believes she knows a way out. For Josette is convinced that her hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel, will come to their rescue. She refuses to believe that he only exists in her imagination. 'I say that the Scarlet Pimpernel can do anything! And I mean to get in touch with him,' she vows, and sets forth into the Paris streets...
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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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This book was as well-written as the rest, but I was disappointed to find that the Scarlet Pimpernel/Sir Percy is only really featured in the last ten pages of the book. While Josette was interesting enough...I wanted more of the hero for whom the book was named.
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AT an angle of the Rue de la Monnaie where it is intersected by the narrow Passage des Feves there stood at this time a large three-storied house, which exuded an atmosphere of past luxury and grandeur. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fat sailor, precious packet, tricolour sash, maimed man, mysterious hero, government workshops, compromising letters, precious letters, sealed packet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Scarlet Pimpernel, Citizen Representative, Josette Gravier, Maurice Reversac, Bastien de Croissy, Rue Picpus, Citizen Armand, Armand Chauvelin, Rue de la Monnaie, Citizen Officer, Cheval Blanc, Citizen Chabot, National Convention, Citizen Chauvelin, Committee of Public Safety, Louise de Croissy, Citizen Captain, National Guard, Bout du Monde, Citizen Croissy, Citizen Doctor, Citizeness Croissy, Josephine Gravier, Cabaret des Trois Singes, Commissariat of Police New!
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AT an angle of the Rue de la Monnaie where it is intersected by the narrow Passage des Feves there stood at this time a large three-storied house, which exuded an atmosphere of past luxury and grandeur. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fat sailor, precious packet, tricolour sash, maimed man, mysterious hero, government workshops, compromising letters, precious letters, sealed packet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Scarlet Pimpernel, Citizen Representative, Josette Gravier, Maurice Reversac, Bastien de Croissy, Rue Picpus, Citizen Armand, Armand Chauvelin, Rue de la Monnaie, Citizen Officer, Cheval Blanc, Citizen Chabot, National Convention, Citizen Chauvelin, Committee of Public Safety, Louise de Croissy, Citizen Captain, National Guard, Bout du Monde, Citizen Croissy, Citizen Doctor, Citizeness Croissy, Josephine Gravier, Cabaret des Trois Singes, Commissariat of Police New!
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- The Scarlet Pimpernel (Signet Classics) by Baroness Orczy Emmuska in Front Matter
- UC The Scarlet Pimpernel by Introduction by Gary Hop Baroness Orczy in Front Matter
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (Dodo Press) by Baroness Emma Orczy in Front Matter
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (Enriched Classic) by Emmuska Orczy in Front Matter
- The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953 by Billie Melman on page 255
- The First Sir Percy: An Adventure of the Laughing Cavalier by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy in Front Matter
- Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy in Front Matter
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