The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1922) by. Baroness Orczy / Adventure, Historical NOVEL /

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, first published in 1922, is a book in the series about the Scarlet Pimpernel's adventures by Baroness Orczy. Again Orczy interweaves historic fact with fiction, this time through the real life figures of Thérésa Cabarrus, and Jean-Lambert Tallien; inserting the Scarlet Pimpernel as an instigator of the role Tallien played in the Thermidorian Reaction in July 1794.The story starts in Paris in April 1794, year II of the French Revolution. Theresia Cabarru...