In the same way Andre-Louis is inevitably going to get his way, France is going to fall to the force revolution.īut all that is just happening in the background. *huffle huffle huffle*" But Andre-Louis has his own ideas of the way things should be done (which are naturally much better than the old guys'), and the energy to put those ideas into the practice. Wherever Andre-Louis goes, he meets old men who are like, "Listen to your elders, young sir! That's not the way we do things around here. There's also a lot of conflict between generations in Scaramouche, which makes the Revolution the perfect setting for the story. This is definitely an all-the-world's-a-stage sort of book, and Andre-Louis is pressed by necessity into taking on these roles but there's also a sense that he doesn't know who he is (literally or figuratively) or what he wants until the end of the novel. What makes it a good name for him is that, as soon as he sets out to get justice for Philippe, Andre-Louis is playing a role-that of his friend, of Scaramouche, of a politician, etc. After Andre-Louis stirs things up in Rennes and Nantes, he has to get away from the local heat for a while so he joins a troupe of players, where he takes on the role and the name of Scaramouche. Scaramouche is an olde-timey stock character from the Comedie Italienne, kind of like Harlequin. What is a Scaramouche? you might be asking. Maurice Sand as Scaramouche by Michel Levy Freres, 1860 Even if you don't, I still think you should read it. If you like reading about theater, history, men with gigantic feathered hats who bow over a lady's hand, sword fights, revenge tales, anything by Alexandre Dumas- The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, etc.-or a great story, you should definitely pick this book up. It's full of fabulous characters, adventure, romance, and it is definitely unputdownable. I love Scaramouche! I really want to live in this novel. But how far will he go in his quest for vengeance? One night, the highest-ranking noble in the area, the Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr, provokes the egalitarian Philippe into a duel and kills him because he possesses a "dangerous gift of eloquence." After witnessing the murder, Andre-Louis swears to speak with the voice of his dead friend and seek justice through the destruction of the Marquis and his entire class. His bestie, Philippe, does however, and is very involved with the political reformers of the literary cabinet. On the brink of the French Revolution, Andre-Louis Moreau is a cynical lawyer living in Brittany who doesn't care about politics AT ALL. kick-ass opening sentence of Scaramouche "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." Topics: adventure, revenge, coming of age, French Revolution
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