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* JerkassHasAPoint[=/=]VillainHasAPoint: In the ending, [[spoiler:the Marquis claims that the bloody revolution sparked by master orators like Vilmorin and Moreau retroactively justifies his killing of Vilmorin, that the revolutionaries do not hesitate to kill ''their'' enemies any more than he did, and that a revolution brings nothing but bloodshed and chaos before [[FullCircleRevolution the revolutionaries become the new aristocrats]]. And considering [[FutureShadowing we know what happens next]]...]]
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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Andre-Louis manages to become a master swordsman in a very short time through reading, soon besting his teacher, who has been training all his life in the sword but never bothered to study his own fencing library. The message seems to be that you need both hard work ''and'' practice.
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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Andre-Louis manages to become a master swordsman in a very short time through reading, reading. He soon besting bests his teacher, who has been training trained all his life in the sword but never bothered to study his own fencing library. The message seems to be that you need both hard work ''and'' practice.intelligence.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Music/QueenBand Will you do the fandango?]]]]
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* TheAce: Andre-Louis starts out as a lawyer, then incites a riot to avenge his friend, which is at least similar. Then he becomes a playwright and actor, then a professional fencing instructor, then a republican statesmen. He excels in all of his jobs. One could argue that everything except the fencing somehow builds on practicing law and rhetoric, and many politicians are former lawyers.[[note]]27 Presidents as of Biden, for example.[[/note]]
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* AgeGapRomance: It's not explicitly stated how old the Marquis is, but it's clearly established that he's old enough to be her father. This doesn't stop him considering Aline a suitable romantic prospect (nor do Aline's guardians disagree, and although she herself is not as keen on him, his age is not one of the things she counts against him).
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* AgeGapRomance: It's not explicitly stated how old the Marquis is, but it's clearly established that he's old enough to be her Aline's father. This doesn't stop him considering Aline a suitable romantic prospect (nor do Aline's guardians disagree, and although she herself is not as keen on him, his age is not one of the things she counts against him).
* ButIReadABookAboutIt: Andre-Louis reads fencing books his fencing-master and employer kept around for decoration, and becomes a fencing prodigy and invents a FinishingMove. He ends up good enough to ''beat'' his master. And just about anyone else he faces.
* FinishingMove: Andre-Louis' "triple-disengage".
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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Andre-Louis manages to become a master swordsman in a very short time through reading, soon besting his teacher, who has been training all his life in the sword but never bothered to study his own fencing library. The message seems to be that you need both hard work ''and'' practice.
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* NotInThisForYourRevolution: In the beginning, Andre-Louis doesn't believe in the ideals he's supporting, he just uses republican rhetoric to inflame crowds to attach his enemies.
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* NotInThisForYourRevolution: In the beginning, Andre-Louis doesn't believe in the ideals he's supporting, he just uses republican rhetoric to inflame crowds to attach attack his enemies.
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* JerkassHasAPoint/VillainHasAPoint: In the ending, [[spoiler:the Marquis claims that the bloody revolution sparked by master orators like Vilmorin and Moreau retroactively justifies his killing of Vilmorin, that the revolutionaries do not hesitate to kill ''their'' enemies any more than he did, and that a revolution brings nothing but bloodshed before [[FullCircleRevolution the revolutionaries become the new aristocrats. And considering [[FutureShadowing we know what happens next]]...]]
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* JerkassHasAPoint/VillainHasAPoint: JerkassHasAPoint[=/=]VillainHasAPoint: In the ending, [[spoiler:the Marquis claims that the bloody revolution sparked by master orators like Vilmorin and Moreau retroactively justifies his killing of Vilmorin, that the revolutionaries do not hesitate to kill ''their'' enemies any more than he did, and that a revolution brings nothing but bloodshed and chaos before [[FullCircleRevolution the revolutionaries become the new aristocrats.aristocrats]]. And considering [[FutureShadowing we know what happens next]]...]]
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* BadassBoast: Andre-Louis to the Assembly:
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* BadassBoast: Andre-Louis to the Assembly:Assembly, after a duel with M. de Chabrillaine:
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* BadassBookworm: Although Andre-Louis is a lawyer by trade, he is able to--through studying fencing theory--devise a method of fencing that destroys even the most skilled of opponents.
* BasedOnATrueStory: The novel takes place during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, and closely follows the events of that time, while outlining an entirely fictional plot.
* BasedOnATrueStory: The novel takes place during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, and closely follows the events of that time, while outlining an entirely fictional plot.
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* BadassBookworm: Although Andre-Louis is a lawyer by trade, he is able to--through studying to [[ButIReadABookAboutIt study fencing theory--devise theory]] well enough to devise a method of fencing that [[FinishingMove destroys even the most skilled of opponents.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: The novel takes place during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, and closely follows the events of that time, while outlining an entirely fictional plot. This is Sabatini's standard format.
* BasedOnATrueStory: The novel takes place during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, and closely follows the events of that time, while outlining an entirely fictional plot. This is Sabatini's standard format.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Andre-Louis' two love interests are Aline, a daughter of the nobility, and Climene, the daughter of the owner of the theater troupe he hides out in.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Andre-Louis' two love interests are Aline, a daughter of the nobility, and Climene, the daughter of the owner of the theater troupe he hides out in. Ironically, the former is more innocent and girl-next-door, and the later is more mercenary and sexy.
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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Andre-Louis manages to become a master swordsman in a very short time through reading, soon besting his teacher, who has been training all his life in the sword but never bothered to study fencing literature.
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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Andre-Louis manages to become a master swordsman in a very short time through reading, soon besting his teacher, who has been training all his life in the sword but never bothered to study his own fencing literature.library.
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* HeroicBastard: Andre-Louis.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard The First Estate's senators typically dispatch the rowdier, more liberal members of the Third Estate by goading them into an honor duel, then killing them, since the rich First Estate is well versed in fencing, while the commoner Third Estate mostly cannot afford such lessons. Near the end of the story, Andre-Louis uses this very same tactic against the First Estate's senators, having become a better fencer than any of them.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard The First Estate's senators typically dispatch the rowdier, more liberal members of the Third Estate by goading them into an honor duel, then killing them, since the rich First Estate is well versed in fencing, while the commoner Third Estate mostly cannot afford such lessons. Near the end of the story, Andre-Louis uses this very same tactic against the First Estate's senators, having become a better fencer than any of them.
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* HeroicBastard: Andre-Louis.
Andre-Louis. Allegedly. [[spoiler:And actually.]]
*HoistByHisOwnPetard HoistByHisOwnPetard: The First Estate's senators typically dispatch the rowdier, more liberal members of the Third Estate by goading them into an honor duel, then killing them, since the rich First Estate is well versed in fencing, while the commoner Third Estate mostly cannot afford such lessons. Near the end of the story, Andre-Louis uses this very same tactic against the First Estate's senators, having become a better fencer than any of them.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: The JerkassHasAPoint/VillainHasAPoint: In the ending, [[spoiler:the Marquis claims that the bloody revolution sparked by master orators like Vilmorin and Moreau retroactively justifies his killing of Vilmorin, that the revolutionaries do not hesitate to kill ''their'' enemies any more than he did, and that a revolution brings nothing but bloodshed before [[FullCircleRevolution the revolutionaries become the new aristocrats.aristocrats. And considering [[FutureShadowing we know what happens next]]...]]
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* NarrativeProfanityFilter: For almost ever sentence [[SirSwearsALot Danton]] says.
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* TalkingToTheDead: Andre-Louis to Phillipe Vilmorin after the duel with the Marquis.
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* TalkingToTheDead: Andre-Louis to Phillipe Vilmorin after before the duel with the Marquis.
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This novel was adapted for film twice, in [[Film/Scaramouche1923 1923]] and [[Film/{{Scaramouche}} 1952]].
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This novel was adapted for film twice, in [[Film/Scaramouche1923 1923]] and [[Film/{{Scaramouche}} [[Film/{{Scaramouche1952}} 1952]].
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* FirstGirlWins: The two love interests are Aline, introduced in the second chapter as Andre-Louis's childhood friend who is about to get engaged to someone else, and Climene, who he meets and immediately falls in love with nine chapters later. Andre-Louis nearly marries Climene, but it's Aline that he ends up with.
* LongLostRelative: At the climax of the novel [[spoiler:after four years of feuding, the Marquis and Andre-Louis learn that they are father and son -- years ago the Marquis seduced Mme. la Comtesse de Plougastel, then abandoned her when she got pregnant. She told him the baby died, but actually entrusted baby Andre-Louis to her friend M. de Kercadiou to raise. Andre-Louis gets quite annoyed when the Marquis suggests that he gets his badassness from his father's side of the family.]]
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* RoyalRapier: Moreau's weapon of choice.
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* RoyalRapier: Moreau's The rapier is the weapon of choice.choice of the corrupt upper classes, and particularly the villainous Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr, who has a way of destroying his enemies by provoking them into duels and then curb-stomping them with his superior ability. Andre-Louis starts studying fencing about halfway through the novel, and ends up good enough to beat most of his opponents even after word gets around and they stop assuming that his lower birth means he'll be unskilled; but even he has to work for his victory when he faces off against the Marquis.
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* WickedCultured: The Marquis, naturally.
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* WickedCultured: The Marquis, naturally.an honorable, educated, well-read noble who is also a ruthless killer.
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Not an example; the trope is about a number of people joining forces for an emergency and then deciding to stay a team after the emergency is over.
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* WeWorkWellTogether: Andre-Louis to Pantaloon's troupe of actors. It takes him about a week to take over.
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* SaveTheVillain: Mme. la Comtesse de Plougastel throws herself between Andre-Louis and the [[BigBad Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr]].
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Mme. la Comtesse de Plougastel doesn't fit the trope, I would say, because before the reveal she isn't thought to be any kind of relative to the protagonist; she's just a friend of his father's who visited sometimes when he was a kid.
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* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Comtesse de Plougastel [[spoiler:turns out to be Andre's mother]].
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Near the end of the novel, Andre-Louis becomes convinced that Aline has fallen in love with the Marquis, and so starts avoiding both of them so that they can be together without being hampered by his jealousy or his hatred of the Marquis -- just at the point where if he'd spoken to Aline one more time she'd have told him it was ''him'' she's fallen in love with. They do get it sorted out in the end.
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* ObliviousToLove: Over the course of the novel, it becomes increasingly apparent to the reader that Aline loves Andre-Louis romantically and not just familially. Andre-Louis spends the entire novel oblivious, either writing off her signs of affection as familial or misunderstanding who they're directed at. (He's not great at subtle social cues, and also he's convinced himself that their differing social levels mean that she would never go for him.) This carries on until the final chapter, where Aline gets enough information to figure out how Andre-Louis really feels, after which she quickly puts him straight.
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That last comment is unfair: there's no reasonable set of circumstances where marrying Andre-Louis would have got Climene into the nobility. By the time he learns about his noble parentage, his noble parents have been overthrown by the Revolution (the novel ends with him planning to settle down on a farm for the rest of his life). And if it weren't for the disruptions of the Revolution, he would never have learned of his parentage at all.
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* GoldDigger: Climene briefly becomes engaged to Andre-Louis, but only because she believes he is of noble birth. Once she finds out he is actually ''adopted'', she breaks it off to become Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr's mistress. On his side, the Marquis dumps Climene due to personal issues, leaving her with nothing. [[spoiler:Turns out, Andre-Louis actually is of noble birth, meaning she dumped him for nothing.]]
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* GoldDigger: Climene briefly becomes engaged to Andre-Louis, but only because she believes he is of noble birth. Once she finds out he is actually ''adopted'', only a fosterling, she breaks it off to become Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr's mistress. On his side, the Marquis dumps Climene due to personal issues, leaving her with nothing. [[spoiler:Turns out, Andre-Louis actually is of noble birth, meaning she dumped him for nothing.]]
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May December Romance has specific criteria, which the Marquis is not old enough to qualify for.
* AgeGapRomance: It's not explicitly stated how old the Marquis is, but it's clearly established that he's old enough to be her father. This doesn't stop him considering Aline a suitable romantic prospect (nor do Aline's guardians disagree, and although she herself is not as keen on him, his age is not one of the things she counts against him).
and Aline.
and Aline.
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* MayDecemberRomance: The Marquis and Aline.
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* UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution: The setting of the novel.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Aline and Climene.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Aline Andre-Louis' two love interests are Aline, a daughter of the nobility, and Climene.Climene, the daughter of the owner of the theater troupe he hides out in.
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* DuelToTheDeath: Andre-Louis and several members of the Privileged Party, most notably the Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr and M. de Chabrillane. The Marquis's killing of Andre's friend Philippe de Vilmorin starts off the conflict between them.
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* DuelToTheDeath: Andre-Louis and several members of the Privileged Party, most notably the Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr and M. de Chabrillane. The Marquis's killing of Andre's friend Philippe de Vilmorin starts off the conflict between them. (As was the custom of the time, most of the duels are not officially to the death but only until one party is too injured to continue. Andre-Louis only injures most of the members of the Privileged Party he duels, but makes a point of going for the kill with de Chabrillane because he was also involved in Philippe's death. Likewise, he goes for the kill with de La Tour d'Azyr himself, but the Marquis is just good enough to divert the intended killing stroke so that it injures him enough to end the duel but not enough to kill him.)
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Comtesse de Plougastel is nice to her coachman, which saves her life.
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Comtesse de Plougastel is nice to her coachman, a common-born messenger, which saves her life.
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* NotBloodSiblings: Andre-Louis and Aline.
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* NotBloodSiblings: Andre-Louis and Aline.Aline were raised together and think of each other as "almost like sister and brother", at least at the start of the book. (Officially, Andre-Louis is the godson and foster son of Aline's uncle, who many believe is probably his [[HeroicBastard actual father]] as well.) They hook up romantically at the end.
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* SirSwearsALot: Danton is depicted as an unsophisticated man who swears several times a sentence. (The swearing is blanked out except when it's a French expression that doesn't have the same force in English.)
--> “This ——— Chapelier has told me of you. He says that you are a patriotic ———.”\\
More than by the tone was Andre-Louis startled by the obscenities with which the Colossus did not hesitate to interlard his first speech to a total stranger. He laughed outright. There was nothing else to do.\\
“If he has told you that, he has told you more than the truth! I am a patriot. The rest my modesty compels me to disavow.”
--> “This ——— Chapelier has told me of you. He says that you are a patriotic ———.”\\
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“If he has told you that, he has told you more than the truth! I am a patriot. The rest my modesty compels me to disavow.”
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Not in the novel. Maybe in one of the film versions? but if so I don't know which one.
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* HighDiveEscape: The Marquis is offered this. He takes it.
