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The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Paris, 1792. As the guillotine claims the French aristocracy, a daring band of English gentlemen smuggles condemned families to safety, led by a mysterious hero known only by his calling card, a small red flower: the Scarlet Pimpernel. In London, the beautiful and brilliant Lady Marguerite Blakeney, bored by her foppish husband Sir Percy, is blackmailed by the ruthless French agent Chauvelin into helping unmask the Pimpernel, and races across the Channel to Calais to undo what she has done. Baroness Orczy's 1905 swashbuckling romance,
