Scaramouche

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Nicolas Lancret, Jean-Baptiste Pater and Jean-Antoine Watteau. A country lawyer watches his friend killed in a rigged duel by a nobleman who cannot be touched, and takes to the stage as Scaramouche to say from behind a mask what he cannot say in court. Sabatini opens with the line about being born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the wor...