The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. Written by Baroness Orczy

and first published in 1919, the book consists of eleven short stories

about Sir Percy Blakeney's exploits in rescuing various aristos and

French citizens from the clutches of the guillotine.

The stories are set in 1793 but appear in no

particular order. They occasionally refer to events in other books in

the series.

Sir Percy Explains

Madeleine

Lannoy, whose husband was killed at Versailles defending the Queen from

the mob, has become a street dancer in the worst parts of Paris. She

has taken on this guise in the hope of finding her only son who has been

stolen by Citizen Jean Paul Marat, annoyed by her spurning his

advances. All she knows is that her child "is to be reared up in the

company of all that is most vile and most degraded in the

disease-haunted slums of indigent Paris" and that if she doesn't find

him soon he risks becoming a criminal or a drink-sodden reprobate at

best.

A Question of Passports

Citizen

Bibot of the Town Guard has command of the Porte Montmartre – the last

commandant there, citizen Ferney, was guillotined for having allowed a

whole batch of aristos to escape and find safety outside the walls of

Paris. Citizen Marat arrives to warn Bibot to be watchful because the

Pimpernel has promised to rescue the Duc and Duchesse de Montreux and

their family, (who are on their way to the Conciergerie prison) that

very evening, but Bibot is determined that the Scarlet Pimpernel will

not get one over on him.

Two Good Patriots

Being

the desposition of citizeness Fanny Roussell, who was brought up

together with her husband, before the Tribunal of the Revolution on a

charge of Treason – both being subsequently acquitted.

The Old Scarecrow

Nobody

in the quartier could quite recollect when it was that citizen Lepine,

the new public letter-writer first set up in business at the angle

formed by the Quai des Augustins and the Rue Dauphine; but he certainly

was there on the 28th day of February 1793, when Agnes, with eyes

swollen with tears, a market basket on her arm and a look of dreary

despair on her young face, turned that self same angle on her way to the

Pont Neuf, and nearly fell over the rickety construction which

sheltered him and his stock.

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), pen name as Baroness Orczy, was a

Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright, and artist of noble

origin. She is most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who transforms into a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking escape artist, representing the original "hero with a secret identity".

Opening in London's West End on 5 January 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernel became a favourite of British audiences. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy

in London. During World War I, Orczy formed the Women of England's

Active Service League, an unofficial organisation aimed at the

recruitment of female volunteers for active service.