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Synopsis
The First Sir Percy is a historical novel written by Baroness Orczy, first published in 1921. The book is set in France during the late 18th century, during the reign of King Louis XVI, and tells the story of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English aristocrat who becomes a hero of the French Revolution. Sir Percy is a member of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, a secret society of English noblemen who risk their lives to save French aristocrats from the guillotine. However, in The First Sir Percy, we see the beginning of Sir Percy's story, before he becomes the Scarlet Pimpernel. The book follows Sir Percy's journey from a young and carefree man into a hero of the Revolution, as he falls in love with a Frenchwoman named Marguerite and becomes embroiled in the dangerous political turmoil of the time. Along the way, he must navigate the treacherous world of French politics and avoid capture by the authorities, all while trying to save innocent lives.The First Sir Percy is a thrilling adventure story that combines romance, political intrigue, and historical fiction. It is a must-read for fans of the Scarlet Pimpernel series and anyone interested in the French Revolution.Quite enough in truth to make a man who is dizzy with love ten thousand times more dizzy still. And Diogenes was desperately in love, more so indeed than he had ever thought himself capable of being. He quietly unbuckled his sword, which clanged against the floor when he moved, and deposited in cautiously and noiselessly in an angle of the room. Then he tiptoed across to the virginal and knelt beside his beloved.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Biographie de l'auteur
Baroness Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865, the daughter of Baron Felix Orczy, a landed aristocrat and well-known composer and conductor. Shemoved with her parents from Budapest to Brussels and then Paris, where she was educated. Orczy alsostudied art in London and exhibited work atthe Royal Academy. Later sheMontagu Barstow and together they worked as illustrators and jointly published an edition of Hungarian folk tales. Fame came in1905 with the publication of The Scarlet Pimpernel, which was originally a play co-written with her husband. Its background of Revolution in France and swashbuckling hero, 'Sir Percy Blakeney', was to prove immensely popular. Sequels followed and many years later film and TV versions are enduringly popular, with new productions from time to time. However, Orczy alsoalso wrote detective stories which have a following today amongst those intersted in the genre. She died in 1947.
Présentation de l'éditeur
Set in Holland in 1624, The First Sir Percy, by Baroness Orczy, is another adventure featuring Sir Percy Blake, a foreign adventurer and ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel who goes by the name Diogenes. The book is a sequel to The Laughing Cavalier and picks up the story a couple of months after the events in the first book.
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