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The fifth adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel, in which Marguerite, Sir Percy's wife, is kidnapped and held in Paris while Robespierre's Reign of Terror runs through its last days of violence, and all Chauvelin's cunning is turned to the capture of that Englishman who has eluded him -- till now!Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi (1865-1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel is the third in the series of adventure novels set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.

It is Paris, 1793, the most seething time of the revolution. No one knew in the morning if his head would still be on his shoulders in the evening, or if it would be held up by citizen Samson the headsman, for the sans-culottes of Paris to see. However, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney, is still at large to rescue France's aristocrats.