Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution

A bright, restless mind raised in a quiet Breton village, André‑Louis Moreau is a lank, sharp‑eyed scholar whose education in the great Parisian lycées left him both erudite and deeply skeptical of humanity’s folly. Though his patron, the lord of his hometown, funded his studies and legal career, André‑Louis remains an outsider, more at home in the lively debates of literary societies than in the polite circles of the aristocracy. His wit is razor‑thin, his laughter a thin veil over a conviction that the world is fundamentally mad.

When a brutal killing of a local peasant by a noble’s gamekeeper shocks his friend Philippe, the young seminarian, André‑Louis is drawn into the growing unrest that threatens to upend France. The incident forces him to confront the very injustices he has long ridiculed, and his cynical commentary hints at a deeper involvement in the revolutionary fervor gathering around him. The stage is set for a daring clash between intellect, idealism, and the turbulent politics of a nation on the brink.