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Scaramouche

by Rafael SABATINI (1875 - 1950)

THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC

Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a lawyer, politician, actor, lover, and buffoon lead his enemies to call him "Scaramouche" (also called Scaramuccia, a roguish character in the commedia dell'arte), but he impresses many with his elegant orations and precision swordsmanship. The later film version includes one of the longest, and many believe, best swashbuckling sword-fighting scenes ever filmed.The novel has a memorable start (Book I: The Robe, Chapter I, 'The Republican'): "He was born with the 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 Gavrillacs had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery that hung about it." (Summary by Gord)

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Listen next episodes of Scaramouche:
AT MEUDON , CLIMENE , CONTRITION , ENTER SCARAMOUCHE , EXIT MONSIEUR PARVISSIMUS , INFERENCES , MADAME DE PLOUGASTEL , OMNES OMNIBUS , POLITICIANS , PRESIDENT LE CHAPELIER , QUOS DEUS VULT PERDERE , SAFE-CONDUCT , SANCTUARY , SUNRISE , THE AFTERMATH , THE AWAKENING , THE BARRIER , THE COMIC MUSE , THE CONQUEST OF NANTES , THE DREAM , THE FRACAS AT THE THEATRE FEYDAU , THE OVERWHELMING REASON , THE PALADIN OF THE THIRD , THE RETURNING CARRIAGE , THE SERVICE OF THESPIS , THE SPADASSINICIDES , THE TRESPASSERS , THE WIND , THE WINDMILL , TORN PRIDE , TRANSITION