Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Rafael Sabatini's 1921 adventure novel is set in revolutionary France. André-Louis Moreau, a young lawyer in Brittany, vows to avenge a friend killed in a duel by the Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr. Forced into hiding, he joins a troupe of traveling players and plays the clown Scaramouche, then turns to fencing and revolutionary politics. The novel opens with the line "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."
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- Fareed Zakaria: “Hero: Scaramouche, mostly because of the first line of that book: “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.” Words to live by.”