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El Dorado

by Baroness Orczy

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1913
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253
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In Paris in January 1794, a crowded theatre brings fashionable entertainment and revolutionary power into the same room. De Batz points out influential officials to his younger companion, Armand St. Just, while explaining the broad authority newly granted to government spies. Their whispered conversation makes the evening performance feel precarious: an impatient official can threaten the people responsible for the play.

Personal attachments complicate this atmosphere of watchfulness. Armand longs for an introduction to the actress Mlle. Lange, despite the competing demands of prudence and duty. Elsewhere, Lady Blakeney leaves a prison visit overwhelmed by fear for the man she loves, with Chauvelin accompanying her through its passages. This historical novel combines public spectacle, political suspicion and private distress.

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Baroness Orczy

Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865 to 1947) was a Hungarian-born British author who settled in London and made her name with The Scarlet Pimpernel. Her sweeping romances of the French Revolution created one of fiction's first masked heroes and shaped a century of adventure storytelling.

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First published
1913
Reading time
About 9 hours
Pages
253
Language
English
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