I Will Repay - Couverture souple

Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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ISBN 10 : 1599865696 ISBN 13 : 9781599865690

Editeur : Fq Classics, 2008

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

I Will Repay was written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy and originally published in 1906, this is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orczy, it comes chronologically third in the series, after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel. The story starts in 1784, before the French revolution. Wealthy Paul D�roul�de has offended the young Vicomte de Marny by speaking disrespectfully of his latest infatuation, Ad�le de Monterch�ri. D�roul�de had not intended to get into the quarrel but has a tendency to blunder into things -- "no doubt a part of the inheritance bequeathed to him by his bourgeois ancestry." Incensed at the slur on Ad�le, whom he sees as a paragon of virtue, the Vicomte challenges D�roul�de to a duel, a fight which D�roul�de does not want - for he knows and respects the boy's father, the Duc de Marny. Swords drawn, the fight ensues in the centre of the salon but despite his noble lineage, the Vicomte de Marny is no match for D�roul�de's swordplay, especially when addled with wine and rage. D�roul�de disarms his opponent and having won the duel, draws back but the boy refuses to back down without complete satisfaction and demands that D�roul�de get down on his knees and apologize. Finally losing his temper with the young Vicomte, D�roul�de raises his sword to disarm his protagonist once more, however de Marny lunges wildly at his opponent's breast and manages to literally throw himself on D�roul�de's weapon. The boy is dead and D�roul�de can do nothing but leave the establishment.

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.

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