Overview
Robespierre! Envied, reviled, and feared, he rules over all with cold-blooded savagery and merciless cruelty.
He oversees the ruthless destruction of his colleagues and comrades of the old Jacobin Clubs. Friends he has none, for he cares about no one but himself, and about nothing but his own exaltation -- and now he has hundreds of enemies in every assembly and club in Paris.
But nothing that transpires escapes him. His ferocious egoism, his unbounded ambition is even now calculating what advantages to himself might accrue from this idea of the new National Religion, and what personal aggrandizement he might gain by it. Yet what is this . . . written on this dirty piece of paper Robespierre has before him:
"We seek him here, and we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere!
Is he in heaven, is he in hell,
That demmed elusive Pimpernel?"
English novelist and playwright Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947) achieved enduring success with her novels of politics, intrigue and secret rebellion, including The Scarlet Pimpernel, set during the time of the French Revolution.
Synopsis
Robespierre! Envied, reviled, and feared, he rules over all with cold-blooded savagery and merciless cruelty.
He oversees the ruthless destruction of his colleagues and comrades of the old Jacobin Clubs. Friends he has none, for he cares about no one but himself, and about nothing but his own exaltation -- and now he has hundreds of enemies in every assembly and club in Paris.
But nothing that transpires escapes him. His ferocious egoism, his unbounded ambition is even now calculating what advantages to himself might accrue from this idea of the new National Religion, and what personal aggrandizement he might gain by it. Yet what is this . . . written on this dirty piece of paper Robespierre has before him:
"We seek him here, and we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere!
Is he in heaven, is he in hell,
That demmed elusive Pimpernel?"
English novelist and playwright Baroness Emmuska Orczy (1865-1947) achieved enduring success with her novels of politics, intrigue and secret rebellion, including The Scarlet Pimpernel, set during the time of the French Revolution.