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May 1, 2000 · The mysterious figure known as the Scarlet Pimpernel, sworn to rescue helpless men, women, and children from their doom; his implacable foe, the French agent Chauvelin, relentlessly hunting him down; and lovely Marguerite Blakeney, a beautiful French exile married to an English lord and caught in a terrible conflict of loyalties—all play their parts in a suspenseful tale that ranges from the ...
Dec 20, 2018 · The French revolution is ablaze, the guillotine is go-go-go and the only hope for aristos facing the blade is a last-minute rescue by the mysterious, masked Scarlet Pimpernel. In this pleasingly ...
May 1, 2000 · The mysterious figure known as the Scarlet Pimpernel, sworn to rescue helpless men, women, and children from their doom; his implacable foe, the French agent Chauvelin, relentlessly hunting him down; and lovely Marguerite Blakeney, a beautiful French exile married to an English lord and caught in a terrible conflict of loyalties—all play their parts in a suspenseful tale that ranges from the ...
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The ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’ is the name used by Sir Percy Blakeney, an Englishman who uses many clever disguise s (=ways of changing your clothes and appearance so that people do not recognize you) in order to help French people from a high social class to escape from France, and from the possibility of having their heads cut off by the guillotine during the French Revolution.
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) Starring Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon.
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Chauvelin must arrest the Scarlet Pimpernel in France, and whoever is in both the dining-room and in Calais will be his man. Chauvelin promises to send Armand ’s “imprudent letter” to Lady Blakeney tomorrow by carrier, and heads directly to the dining-room. He arrives a few moments before one o’clock, and the empty room is “a ...
Reading more books on the subject, I discovered that “The Scarlet Pimpernel” is the English translation of Mouron. This was the real code name of a real-life operative for the British Alien Office, amid hundreds of other code names used by British operatives for their own safety while working in post-Revolutionary France.
