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Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel
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The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title (co-authored with her husband Montague Barstow) enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903.
Nov 9, 1982 · The Scarlet Pimpernel: Directed by Clive Donner. With Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen, James Villiers. Paris, 1792: After France becomes a republic, aristocrats are guillotined. The English Sir Percy tries to save as many as he can as The Scarlet Pimpernel in disguises.
6 days ago · The novel’s protagonist, Sir Percy Blakeney, ostensibly a foppish English aristocrat, is secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel, a swashbuckling hero and elusive master of disguise who rescues French aristocrats and smuggles them out of France to safety during the French Revolution.
The Scarlet Pimpernel: Directed by Harold Young. With Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce. A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel.
In The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy drew on the longstanding anti-Semitism in Europe to devise one of the Pimpernel’s most successful disguises, that of an old Jewish man. The disguise is successful in the novel because of the hatred that many French people had for Jewish people.
Published in 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Emma Orczy, is a historical romance adventure novel about a wealthy English baronet with a secret life as a hero who rescues the innocent from the French Reign of Terror.
