Скарамуш

Rafael Sabatini's novel Scaramouche focuses on the adventures and dangers of the life of André-Louis Moreau, a young French lawyer who, by chance, joins a traveling theater troupe and becomes an actor disguised as Scaramouche (a boastful warrior in the Italian commedia dell'arte) , and then, in the years of social upheaval, - a revolutionary, politician and note duelist. Naturally endowed with "a heightened sense of the ridiculous and an innate sense that the world is insane" (these words later became the epitaph inscribed on Sabatini's gravestone), a brilliant orator, a talented actor and an unsurpassed swordsman, Andre-Louis, at the time of the Great French Revolution, enters into confrontation with the powers that be. The vicissitudes of the revolutionary era again bring the protagonist to his longtime adversary (and rival in love), the Marquis de Latour d'Azyr, who once killed his friend in a duel - and this meeting suddenly opens up Andre-Louis, who considered himself the illegitimate son of a noble nobleman and a simple Breton peasant woman, a stunning truth about her own origins...