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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. In this book, Percy isn't opposed by Chauvelin, really, but instead, has to deal with a femme fatale, instead. A young woman ends up in the bastille because of a complicated story involving the execution of her father. When the mob releases her after the storming, she goes the other way, and becomes a feared agent of the blade, and is in fact nicknamed after it. She works to take revenge on those who wronged her, and their families. This is where the Pimpernel and company work to try and stop her and save the innocent. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602... http://superprose.blogspot.com/2007/0... no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 160096155X, Paperback)The author writes, "Three aristos who were being sent to Paris for trial were absolutely spirited away from under the very nose of the highly efficient police administration of the province. Spirited away! There was no other word for it! And the whole thing was obviously the work of those abominable English, who were emissaries of the devil, for no flesh and blood human creature could have engineered so damnable a trick and then disappeared as if the earth had swallowed them up."(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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I'm not sure about his dealings with Gabrielle, a strong, determined woman, if slightly unbalanced - he has to get her on side, and she obviously demonstrates her attraction to him, but Public Displays of Affection with the enemy might be considered taking a role too far! I don't doubt his love for Marguerite, and most actors do not 'love' whomever they must kiss for a part in a film, but I was a little startled by Orczy's portrayal of Sir Percy in this - he is more ashamed of being beaten than for straying when his wife is in the vicinity!
Chauvelin cameos to stir up Mam'zelle Guillotine, and then is out of sight, if not mind (he inspires Sir Percy, at least) for the rest of the book; Sir Tony, who supposedly married his Yvonne in 1793, is single again in February 1794; and Sir Percy must barely have had time to recover from his imprisonment in Paris before this escapade in the Ardennes - but this is Orczy!
An excellent, exciting adventure, with all the main characters and some worthy additions (Gabrielle Damiens, whom I finally felt sorry for, and Eve de St Lucque, another intrepid mother figure fighting for her family). (