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1) Scaramouche
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"Raised by a supposed "godfather," Andre'-Louis Moreau knows nothing about his background or his real parents -- not even his real name. All he knows is that he wants vengeance against the vicious, arrogant aristocrat who brutally murdered his best friend. As France plummets into revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, Moreau's journey toward revenge takes him through several careers, from lawyer to fugitive to actor and playwright and eventually...
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Scaramouche is a swashbuckling romantic adventure set during the French Revolution. A young lawyer becomes enmeshed in political turmoil, and goes into hiding as an actor with a traveling commedia dell'arte troupe. He plays the buffoon, Scaramouche. During his adventures he also becomes a master politician and swordsman, and though he is a revolutionary, circumstances force him to change sides several times. The tone of the book is set from
...3) Scaramouche
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Though Andre-Louis Moreau was educated as a simple lawyer, the murder of his friend in cold blood by the villainous Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr force him to take more drastic action. When no justice is found in the courts, and he is told that nobles do not care to interfere with the Marquis' business, Moreau sparks the powder keg that is the French peoples' growing hatred of the nobility - fanning the flames of revolution.
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