About “The Elusive Pimpernel (Scarlet Pimpernel)”
Set in Paris in September 1793, described as Year I of the Republic, this passage depicts a city consumed by bloodshed, anarchy, and terrorism, with France as a self-devouring monster whose cities, including Lyons, Toulon, and Marseilles, lie in ruins, defying the coalition of Austria, England, Spain, and Prussia.
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