Scaramouche

by Rafael Sabatini · 1921

A young lawyer takes up the mask of a commedia harlequin and the sword of a revolutionary in the France of 1789.

Books mentioned in Scaramouche (4)

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “You've read 'Don Quixote,' and what happened to him when he went tilting against windmills.”
• Monsieur de Pourceaugnac by Molière: “It is called, I believe, 'Monsieur de Pourceaugnac,' and was written by Moliere.”
• Miles Gloriosus by Plautus: “It was based upon the 'Miles Gloriosus' of Plautus.”
• The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais: “In Paris Beaumarchais is the rage; they will come to see half a 'Figaro.'”