RetroInspection - The Scarlet Pimpernel - pt. 2

The bloodiest revolution of the 18th Century occurred in France. It was a civil war not limited to armies. Entire classes of people fought against each other with the aristocracy falling to the more numerous peasants of France.
Charles Dickens was moved to write an entire novel about the tragedy that unfolded across the Channel. Whether it was justified or not, there is no denying that the face of Europe was forever changed.
It was in this world that Baroness Orczy's family found themselves, and one in which they found it necessary to emigrate from Hungary to Britain, where the nobility did not fall under threat of the guillotine.
She used her own experience as a foundation for her characters in The Scarlet Pimpernel.

The French Revolution: A History - https://amzn.to/46HVRZ9
A Tale of Two Cities - https://amzn.to/3VLsC2f
The American Revolution - https://amzn.to/482azMy
The Scarlet Pimpernel Collection - https://amzn.to/4lQWogz
The Scarlet Pimpernel: The Complete Series - https://amzn.to/4lTQXxo

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