I Will Repay - Orczy, Baroness

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Résumé :
It is Paris, 1793, the most seething time of the revolution. No one knew in the morning if his head would still be on his shoulders in the evening, or if it would be held up by citizen Samson the headsman, for the sans-culottes of Paris to see. However, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney, is still at large to rescue France's aristocrats.I Will Repay was written by Baroness Emmuska Orzcy and originally published in 1906, this is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orzcy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series and should be read after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel. The story starts before the French revolution. It's 1783 and wealthy Paul D?roul?de has offended the young Vicomte de Marny by speaking disrepctfully of his latest infatuation, Ad?le de Monterch?ri. D?roul?de had not intended to get into the quarrel but has a tendency to blunder into things -- no doubt a part of the inheritance bequeathed to him by his bourgeois ancestry. Incensed at the slur on Ad?le, who he sees as a paragon of virtue, the Vicomte challenges D?roul?de to a duel, a fight which D?roul?de does not want -- for he knows and respects the boy's father, the Duc de Marny....

Biographie:
Baroness Emma Magdolna Roz?lia M?ria Jozefa Borb?la Orczy de Orci, or Baroness Emmuska Orczy to her friends and loved ones, was born on Sept 23, 1865, in Tarna?rs, Hungary. Her family, fearing a peasant revolution, fled to Budapest, eventually traveling to Brussels and Paris, where the Baroness lived until she was 14. From there they moved to London, where she attended two schools of art and met her husband, Henry George Montagu MacLean Barstow.They were married in 1894, and when she had her first child in 1899, she began her career as a writer.Her first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks, was a failure, but the Baroness found success writing detective stories for The Royal Magazine. Her second novel, In Mary's Reign, was published in 1901, faring much better than her first.Then in 1903, she and her husband wrote a stage play based on one of her short stories. The Baroness also submitted a novelization of the play under the same title to twelve publishers. While waiting for word from the publishers, The Scarlet Pimpernel stage play was accepted for production in London's West End. It began by bringing small audiences, but ran for four years and became one of Britain's most popular plays.The Baroness wrote many more stories about the Scarlet Pimpernel, accumulating 15 novels and 19 short stories. She is credited with introducing the hero with a secret identity trope into popular culture, and was a founding member of The Detection Club, a group of British mystery writers such as Agatha Christie. Baroness Emma Orczy passed away in London on November 12, 1947, in London after a long, happy marriage and successful career....