He surely couldn't be of any use in finding out who the Pimpernel really is. He barely has the brain cells to choose what outrageous outfit he will wear to their next social function. To whom can Marguerite turn for help? Certainly not her foppish, empty-headed dandy of a husband, Percy. And if Marguerite doesn't help Citizen Chauvelin, the slimy agent of the French Republic, discover the Pimpernel's true identity, Armand will be executed. Unfortunately, Armand has been revealed to the Revolutionaries. But she has recently discovered that her brother, Armand, is one of his band of followers. The beautiful expatriate French actress, Marguerite Blakeney, doesn't know. This hero was a mysterious masked figure known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a small flower with five petals), and together with his small band of followers, he managed to spirit many a doomed aristocrat safely to England. (Madame la Guillotine was a very busy woman at this time.) It seemed there would be no hope for the French Nobs, until a dashing hero arrived on the scene to snatch those destined for death from the hands of the bloodthirsty and fanatical Revolutionary government. This wildly popular tale is set during The French Revolution, an era when peasants rose up against the aristocracy and began slaughtering them wholesale. The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic action-adventure story written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy and turned into a play in 1903-05.
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