Produced by An Anonymous Project Gutenberg Volunteer, and David Widger SCARAMOUCHE A ROMANCE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION By Rafael Sabatini Contents BOOK I. CHAPTER I. THE REPUBLICAN CHAPTER II. THE ARISTOCRAT CHAPTER III. THE ELOQUENCE OF M. DE VILMORIN CHAPTER IV. THE HERITAGE CHAPTER V. THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC CHAPTER VI. THE WINDMILL CHAPTER VII. THE WIND CHAPTER VIII. OMNES OMNIBUS CHAPTER IX. THE AFTERMATH BOOK II.    CHAPTER I. THE TRESPASSERS CHAPTER II. THE SERVICE OF THESPIS CHAPTER II. THE COMIC MUSE CHAPTER IV. EXIT MONSIEUR PARVISSIMUS CHAPTER V. ENTER SCARAMOUCHE CHAPTER VI. CLIMENE CHAPTER VII. THE CONQUEST OF NANTES CHAPTER VIII. THE DREAM CHAPTER IX. THE AWAKENING CHAPTER X. CONTRITION CHAPTER XI. THE FRACAS AT THE THEATRE FEYDAU BOOK III.    CHAPTER I. TRANSITION CHAPTER II. QUOS DEUS VULT PERDERE CHAPTER III. PRESIDENT LE CHAPELIER CHAPTER IV. AT MEUDON CHAPTER V. MADAME DE PLOUGASTEL CHAPTER VI. POLITICIANS CHAPTER VII. THE SPADASSINICIDES CHAPTER VIII. THE PALADIN OF THE THIRD CHAPTER IX. TORN PRIDE CHAPTER X. THE RETURNING CARRIAGE CHAPTER XI. INFERENCES CHAPTER XII. THE OVERWHELMING REASON CHAPTER XIII. SANCTUARY CHAPTER XIV. THE BARRIER CHAPTER XV. SAFE-CONDUCT CHAPTER XVI. SUNRISE SCARAMOUCHE BOOK I: THE ROBE CHAPTER I. THE REPUBLICAN He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony. His very paternity was obscure, although the village of Gavrillac had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery that hung about it. Those simple Brittany folk were not so simple as to be deceived by a pretended relationship which did not even possess the virtue of originality. When a nobleman, for no apparent reason, announces himself the godfather of an infant fetched no man knew whence, and thereafter cares for the lad’s rearing and education, the most unsophisticated of country folk perfectly understand the situation. And so the good people of Gavrillac permitted themselves no illusions on the score of the real relationship between Andre-Louis Moreau--as the lad had been named--and Quintin de Kercadiou, Lord of Gavrillac, who dwelt in the big grey house that dominated from its eminence the village clustering below. Andre-Louis had learnt his letters at the village school, lodged the while with old Rabouillet, the attorney, who in the capacity of fiscal intendant, looked after the affairs of M. de Kercadiou. Thereafter, at the age of fifteen, he had been packed off to Paris, to the Lycee of Louis Le Grand, to study the law which he was now returned to practise in conjunction with Rabouillet. All this at the charges of his godfather, M. de Kercadiou, who by placing him once more under the tutelage of Rabouillet would seem thereby quite clearly to be making provision for his future.