Scaramouche (Paperback)

from debs4jc

I didn't think I would like this at first, I've never been much interested in the French revolution and I thought the language would be challenging. But it wasn't too much of a problem and I got caught up in the drama of the story. The man character's best friend is killed--murdered, really--in a...

from AHS-Wolfy

Set on the cusp of the French revolution we follow a young André-Louis Moreau, godson (and presumed by most to be an illegitimate son) of a rural lord. Trained as a lawyer he is distraught when his friend, Philippe de Vilmorin, is forced into a duel with the Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr where he is ...

from mamzel

This is a swashbuckling romance/action story of a man named André-Louis Moreau who is outraged when a friend of his is coldly killed in a duel by a man named Marquis de La Tour D'Azyr, an aristocrat. André-Louis' words draw attention and he has to hide, joining a group of actors and taking the pa...

from Schmerguls

135. Scaramouche A Romance of the French Revolution, by Rafael Sabatini (read Dec 1943) I remember I was much excited by this book, and a few years later when I was a sophomore in college I signed up for a course "The French Revolution and Napoleon" influenced to do so in part by my reading of th...

from lauranav

Swashbuckling coming of age story of a young cynic who turns idealist and then realist, while inspiring revolution, acting with a troup of improvisational actors, learning swordsmanship from a master, and then joining the political ranks. He is apparently good at anything he tries, and we have a ...