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Title: Scaramouche
A Romance of the French Revolution

Author: Rafael Sabatini

Release Date: November, 1999 [Etext #1947]
Posting Date: August 13, 2009

Language: English

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SCARAMOUCHE

A ROMANCE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

By Rafael Sabatini

Contents

BOOK I.

CHAPTER I. THE REPUBLICAN
CHAPTER II. THE ARISTOCRAT
CHAPTER III. THE ELOQUENCE OF M. DE VILMORIN
CHAPTER IV. THE HERITAGE
CHAPTER V. THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC
CHAPTER VI. THE WINDMILL
CHAPTER VII. THE WIND
CHAPTER VIII. OMNES OMNIBUS
CHAPTER IX. THE AFTERMATH

BOOK II.

CHAPTER I. THE TRESPASSERS
CHAPTER II. THE SERVICE OF THESPIS
CHAPTER II. THE COMIC MUSE
CHAPTER IV. EXIT MONSIEUR PARVISSIMUS
CHAPTER V. ENTER SCARAMOUCHE
CHAPTER VI. CLIMENE
CHAPTER VII. THE CONQUEST OF NANTES
CHAPTER VIII. THE DREAM
CHAPTER IX. THE AWAKENING
CHAPTER X. CONTRITION
CHAPTER XI. THE FRACAS AT THE THEATRE FEYDAU

BOOK III.

CHAPTER I. TRANSITION
CHAPTER II. QUOS DEUS VULT PERDERE
CHAPTER III. PRESIDENT LE CHAPELIER
CHAPTER IV. AT MEUDON
CHAPTER V. MADAME DE PLOUGASTEL
CHAPTER VI. POLITICIANS
CHAPTER VII. THE SPADASSINICIDES
CHAPTER VIII. THE PALADIN OF THE THIRD
CHAPTER IX. TORN PRIDE
CHAPTER X. THE RETURNING CARRIAGE
CHAPTER XI. INFERENCES
CHAPTER XII. THE OVERWHELMING REASON
CHAPTER XIII. SANCTUARY
CHAPTER XIV. THE BARRIER
CHAPTER XV. SAFE-CONDUCT
CHAPTER XVI. SUNRISE

SCARAMOUCHE

BOOK I: THE ROBE

CHAPTER I. THE REPUBLICAN

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
And that was all his patrimony. His very paternity was obscure, although
the village of Gavrillac had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery
that hung about it. Those simple Brittany folk were not so simple as to
be deceived by a pretended relationship which did not even possess
the vir