Scaramouche & Scaramouche the King-Maker (Historical Novels)

Scaramouche & Scaramouche the King-Maker (Historical Novels)
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"Scaramouche" tells the story of Andre-Louis Moreau, a young lawyer during the French Revolution. In the course of his adventures he becomes an actor portraying «Scaramouche» (a roguish buffoon character in the commedia dell'arte). He also becomes a revolutionary, politician, and fencing-master, confounding his enemies with his powerful orations and swordsmanship. He is forced by circumstances to change sides several times. "Scaramouche the King-Maker" continues the adventures of Andre-Louis Moreau, who conceives, then with Baron de Batz masterminds, a plan to destroy the Revolution and restore the monarchy through a campaign whereby the Revolutionary leaders, hitherto thought of by the French populace as incorruptible patriots, will be accused of and exposed as corrupt and profiteers. However, while Andre-Louis is in France working for the restoration, unknown to him in Germany the Regent of France attempts to seduce Andre-Louis's fiancée Aline de Kercadiou.

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Рафаэль Сабатини. Scaramouche & Scaramouche the King-Maker (Historical Novels)

Scaramouche & Scaramouche the King-Maker (Historical Novels)

Table of Contents

SCARAMOUCHE

BOOK I. THE ROBE

CHAPTER 1. THE REPUBLICAN

CHAPTER 2. THE ARISTOCRAT

CHAPTER 3. THE ELOQUENCE OF M. DE VILMORIN

CHAPTER 4. THE HERITAGE

CHAPTER 5. THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC

CHAPTER 6. THE WINDMILL

CHAPTER 7. THE WIND

CHAPTER 8. OMNES OMNIBUS

CHAPTER 9. THE AFTERMATH

BOOK II. THE BUSKIN

CHAPTER 1. THE TRESPASSERS

CHAPTER 2. THE SERVICE OF THESPIS

CHAPTER 3. THE COMIC MUSE

CHAPTER 4. EXIT MONSIEUR PARVISSIMUS

CHAPTER 5. ENTER SCARAMOUCHE

CHAPTER 6. CLIMENE

CHAPTER 7. THE CONQUEST OF NANTES

CHAPTER 8. THE DREAM

CHAPTER 9. THE AWAKENING

CHAPTER 10. CONTRITION

CHAPTER 11. THE FRACAS AT THE THEATRE FEYDAU

BOOK III. THE SWORD

CHAPTER 1. TRANSITION

CHAPTER 2. QUOS DEUS VULT PERDERE

CHAPTER 3. PRESIDENT LE CHAPELIER

CHAPTER 4. AT MEUDON

CHAPTER 5. MADAME DE PLOUGASTEL

CHAPTER 6. POLITICIANS

CHAPTER 7. THE SPADASSINICIDES

CHAPTER 8. THE PALADIN OF THE THIRD

CHAPTER 9. TORN PRIDE

CHAPTER 10. THE RETURNING CARRIAGE

CHAPTER 11. INFERENCES

CHAPTER 12. THE OVERWHELMING REASON

CHAPTER 13. SANCTUARY

CHAPTER 14. THE BARRIER

CHAPTER 15. SAFE-CONDUCT

CHAPTER 16. SUNRISE

SCARAMOUCHE THE KING-MAKER

CHAPTER I. THE TRAVELLERS

CHAPTER II. SCHÖNBORNLUST

CHAPTER III. BARON DE BATZ

CHAPTER IV. THE REVOLUTIONARY

CHAPTER V. THE RESCUE

CHAPTER VI. THE APOLOGY

CHAPTER VII. MADAME DE BALBI

CHAPTER VIII. VALMY

CHAPTER IX. PROPOSAL

CHAPTER X. DISPOSAL

CHAPTER XI. THE SPLENDID FAILURE

CHAPTER XII. THE VULNERABLE POINT

CHAPTER XIII. DEPARTURE

CHAPTER XIV. MOLOCH

CHAPTER XV. PRELUDE

CHAPTER XVI. IN THE RUE CHARLOT

CHAPTER XVII. AT CHARONNE

CHAPTER XVIII. LANGÉAC'S REPORT

CHAPTER XIX. REPAYMENT

CHAPTER XX. MAMMON

CHAPTER XXI. THE TEMPTING OF CHABOT

CHAPTER XXII. BRIBERY

CHAPTER XXIII. THE BROTHERS FREY

CHAPTER XXIV. THE GENIUS OF D'ENTRAGUES

CHAPTER XXV. THE INTERDICT

CHAPTER XXVI. CHABOT TRIUMPHANT

CHAPTER XXVII. MATCHMAKING

CHAPTER XXVIII. LÉOPOLDINE

CHAPTER XXIX. THE BAIT

CHAPTER XXX. THE INDIA COMPANY

CHAPTER XXXI. GERMINATION

CHAPTER XXXII. UNMASKED

CHAPTER XXXIII. THE INCORRUPTIBLE

CHAPTER XXXIV. THORIN'S LETTER

CHAPTER XXXV. MESSENGERS

CHAPTER XXXVI. THE INTERRUPTION

CHAPTER XXXVII. THE CANDID MARQUIS

CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE CITIZEN-AGENT

CHAPTER XXXIX. EVIDENCE

CHAPTER XL. THE DOSSIER

CHAPTER XLI. THE THUNDERBOLT

CHAPTER XLII. PRINCELY GRATITUDE

CHAPTER XLIII. ON THE BRIDGE

CHAPTER XLIV. ACCOUNT RENDERED

CHAPTER XLV. BACK TO HAMM

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First came the Marquis of La Tour d’Azyr, Count of Solz, Knight of the Orders of the Holy Ghost and Saint Louis, and Brigadier in the armies of the King. He was a tall, graceful man, upright and soldierly of carriage, with his head disdainfully set upon his shoulders. He was magnificently dressed in a full-skirted coat of mulberry velvet that was laced with gold. His waistcoat, of velvet too, was of a golden apricot colour; his breeches and stockings were of black silk, and his lacquered, red-heeled shoes were buckled in diamonds. His powdered hair was tied behind in a broad ribbon of watered silk; he carried a little three-cornered hat under his arm, and a gold-hilted slender dress-sword hung at his side.

Considering him now in complete detachment, observing the magnificence of him, the elegance of his movements, the great air, blending in so extraordinary a manner disdain and graciousness, Andre–Louis trembled for Aline. Here was a practised, irresistible wooer, whose bonnes fortunes were become a by-word, a man who had hitherto been the despair of dowagers with marriageable daughters, and the desolation of husbands with attractive wives.

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