Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Der unauffindbare Scarlet Pimpernel
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Readers who love swashbuckling adventure, clever heroes who hide behind a fop's manners, tense duels of wit, and a love story set against the French Revolution will find all of it here.
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The Elusive Pimpernel is a historical adventure novel by Baroness Orczy, the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, who died in 1947. It continues the tale of Sir Percy Blakeney, an English dandy who secretly leads a band of gentlemen rescuing people from the guillotine in the French Revolution. This book is set in September 1793, the autumn of the Terror, and it pits him once more against his sharpest French enemy.
You will meet a Paris busy inventing a new religion, a cold schemer called Chauvelin who wants revenge, and Marguerite, Percy's wife, who knows his secret and fears for him. You will follow a challenge staged in a London drawing room, a chase across the Channel, and a trap in the seaport of Boulogne. The book gives you disguise, duels of wit, a hostage town and a villain who plans something crueller than death.
Orczy writes with a stage manager's eye. She sets scenes, lights them with candles and moonlight, and lets her characters speak in bold, theatrical lines. Let us begin where Chauvelin does, in Paris, with a scrap of paper and a small red flower.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1Paris invents a goddessFree
- 2A flower on a scrap of paper
- 3Summer fair and a strange booth
- 4Candeille and a humble enemy
- 5A kitchen maid's diamonds
- 6The quarrel and the challenge
- 7Marguerite follows her husband
- 8Room Number Six and the old priest
- 9A hostage city and a cruel offer
- 10The town waits and the letter is written
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Paris invents a goddess
The book opens in Paris in September 1793, and the mood is feverish. Marat has been killed. The guillotine is busy. The leaders of the Revolution now want a new toy for the people, and they decide it should be a new religion.
Procureur Chaumette proposes a Goddess of Reason, played by the most beautiful woman in Paris. Henriot wants a grand procession of defrocked priests and dancing girls. Fouquier-Tinville wants ten thousand heads on one great day. Collot d'Herbois boasts of his Noyades, in which prisoners are tied together on a barge with a hole in its bottom.
Orczy paints these men as rivals who care only for their own heads. Danton yawns on the Mountain and mutters about a new tyranny. Robespierre sits in his sea-green coat and polishes his nails.
He says nothing, but he is already working out how a festival and a new faith could lift him higher. This opening sets the world the hero must enter, a place where cruelty has become a kind of theatre.
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Questions about Der unauffindbare Scarlet Pimpernel
What is The Elusive Pimpernel about?
It follows Sir Percy Blakeney, the secret leader of the Scarlet Pimpernel League, as his enemy Chauvelin lures him and his wife Marguerite to Boulogne with a duel challenge and a plot to destroy his honor.
Who is the Scarlet Pimpernel?
He is Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy and foppish English baronet who hides a second life as the daring leader of a band of gentlemen who rescue people from the guillotine in Revolutionary France.
Do I need to read The Scarlet Pimpernel first?
The book recalls earlier events, including Chauvelin's defeat at Calais, in enough detail that you can follow it on its own. It is a sequel, but the story and its characters are explained as they appear.
Is The Elusive Pimpernel a true story?
No. Percy Blakeney and his League are invented, though the setting is real. The book places them in France in September 1793 among real figures such as Robespierre, Collot d'Herbois and Chaumette.
What is the Angelus in this book?
It is the evening prayer bell. Chauvelin names it as the hour of the duel, though the Convention had forbidden church bells, and it becomes a signal that carries real meaning for the whole plot.