Scaramouche
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393323306 (0393323307)
ASIN: 0393323307
Publish date: 2002-07-17
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
France,
Action,
Italian Literature,
European History,
18th Century,
French Revolution,
Swashbuckling,
Fiction
lots of shenanigans in a fun little novel that i certainly cannot fault for failing to provide adventure. these are the many exciting exploits that young lawyer turned revolutionary turned actor:the eponymous scaramouche and our hero, andré-louis moreau embarks upon, and the back drop -- the years o...
Andre-Louis Moreau, parentage unknown, is brought as an infant to a small village in Brittany where his support and education is supplied by his "god-father" M. de Kercadiou, and everyone assumes Kercadiou to be Andre's father from the wrong side of the blanket. Andre grows up with church-bound Phil...