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The Elusive Pimpernel (Scarlet Pimpernel)

by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

First Published

2009

Subjects

Fiction, action & adventure
Fiction, historical
France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, fiction
Blakeney, percy, sir (fictitious character), fiction
France, fiction
Classic Literature
Fiction
Sir Blakeney, Percy (Fictitious character)
Nobility
History
Fiction, historical, general
Great britain, fiction
Romans, nouvelles
Histoire
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Fiction, general
Historical fiction
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction
Adventure stories
Blakeney, Percy, Sir (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Nobility -- Great Britain -- Fiction

Description

From the book:There was not even a reaction. On! ever on! in that wild, surging torrent; sowing the wind of anarchy, of terrorism, of lust of blood and hate, and reaping a hurricane of destruction and of horror. On! ever on! France, with Paris and all her children still rushes blindly, madly on; defies the powerful coalition, - Austria, England, Spain, Prussia, all joined together to stem the flow of carnage, - defies the Universe and defies God! Paris this September 1793! - or shall we call it Vendemiaire, Year I. of the Republic? - call it what we will! Paris! a city of bloodshed, of humanity in its lowest, most degraded aspect. France herself a gigantic self-devouring monster, her fairest cities destroyed, Lyons razed to the ground, Toulon, Marseilles, masses of blackened ruins, her bravest sons turned to lustful brutes or to abject cowards seeking safety at the cost of any humiliation.

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