TY - BOOK AU - Orczy, Baroness TI - The scarlet pimpernel / SN - 9780008278762 AV - PR6029.R25 U1 - 823.912 PY - 2008/// CY - London : PB - William Collins, KW - Life and time KW - Historical fiction KW - Glossary of Classic N1 - 1140 ; Lexile N2 - During the French Revolution a secret society of English gentlemen is formed by the enigmatic Scarlet Pimpernel, to rescue their fellow French nobility. Marguerite's brother is threatened by a Frenchman, who demands information on the Scarlet Pimpernel in return for her brother's safety. Marguerite makes the exchange only to discover that her boring fop of a husband is the Pimpernel himself! She follows him to France and so each proves themselves to the other what they really are ER -