Scaramouche

€œLast Wednesday he had been engaged in moving an audience of Rennes to anger; on this Wednesday he was to move an audience of Guichen to mirth....€

Once he was Andr©-Louis Moreau, a lawyer raised by nobility, unconcerned with the growing discontent among France€s lower class€"until his friend was mercilessly struck down by a member of the aristocracy.
 
Now he is Scaramouche. Speaking out against the unjust French government, he takes refuge with a nomadic band of actors and assumes the role of the clown Scaramouche€"a comic figure with a very serious message€¦.
 
Set during the French Revolution, this novel of swashbuckling romance is also a thought-provoking commentary on class, inequality, and the individual€s role in society€"a story that has become Rafael Sabatini€s enduring legacy.
 
With an Introduction by Gary Hoppenstand