The novel The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emma Orczy was very well written and a delightful read filled with trickery, romance, wit, humor, mystery and suspense. The novel takes place September-October of 1792 during the French Revolution. Paris was filled with turmoil and chaos. The lower class of the French society were demanding price controls, legislative assistance to those in need, a more democratic constitution rather than monarchy and so forth. Soon the mobs grew violent and over threw the French government. Royals and Aristocrats along with sympathizers were being hunted down and taken prisoner. Later being executed by ‘Madame la Guillotine’, as the people called it, in front if the crowds watching in vicious glee. Marguerite St.…show more content… The new French Government knew not of who the Scarlet Pimpernel’s identity was but they intend to find out. The French Government send in an agent to England to find out who the Scarlet Pimpernel really was and catch him red-handed aiding fugitives. During a ball that Sir Blakeney and Lady Blakeney attended the agent approaches Lady Blakeney and asked for her assistance in finding the true identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Lady Blakeney refused to help Agent Chauvelin and later that night he intercepted a note from the Scarlet Pimpernel that implied that her brother, Armand St. Just, was in league with the Scarlet Pimpernel and if she helped him he would ensure that her brother was released and brought to English soil unharmed. (So basically he blackmails Lady Blakeney into aiding him in finding out who the illusive Scarlet Pimpernel is.) Another note that he found stated where the Scarlet Pimpernel would be in a few days time. Lady Blakeney saw that a note exchanged between on of her husbands friends and one of the men caught with the note incriminating her…show more content… This story is connected to the French Revolutionary Era, not only does it take placed during the revolution and revolves around a group of men working to save those being killed and taken prisoner in France. But in fact one of the main characters, Sir Percy Blakeney, is connected to a real man that was known by the name of Louis Bayard who ad similar actions as Sir Percy Blakeney and had his own little league that which he led. Very much like The Scarlet Pimpernel, Louis Bayard, according to the author of ‘The Real Scarlet Pimpernel’, “had access to the most fashionable Parisian salons, was one of 200 founders of the Banque de France and a personal friend of four successive French premiers, yet he was also a master of disguise when he needed to go under ground.” Over all I loved the book and would gladly read it again and again, it was quite delightful and entertaining. This book ties very well into their French Evolutionary Era and has a slight hint or overtone of the authors personal views and feelings of the revolution mixed
