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Scaramouche

“Last Wednesday he had been engaged in moving an audience of Rennes to anger; on this Wednesday he was to move an audience of Guichen to mirth...”

Once he was André-Louis Moreau, a lawyer raised by nobility, unconcerned with the growing discontent among France’s lower class — until his friend was mercilessly struck down by a member of the aristocracy.

Now he is Scaramouche. Speaking out against the unjust French government, he takes refuge with a nomadic band of actors and assumes the role of the clown Scaramouche — a comic figure with a very serious message...

Set during the French Revolution, this novel of swashbuckling romance is also a thought-provoking commentary on class, inequality, and the individual’s role in society — a story that has become Rafael Sabatini’s enduring legacy.

With an Introduction by Gary Hoppenstand

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 359
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780451527974
  • Characters
  • André-Louis Moreau
  • Settings
  • France
  • Genres
  • classics, fiction, adventure, historical, france, literature, swashbuckling, romance
  • Release date
  • 2001