{"product_id":"2940013117310","title":"SCARAMOUCHE","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e BOOK I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER I.  THE REPUBLICAN\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER II.  THE ARISTOCRAT\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER III.  THE ELOQUENCE OF M. DE VILMORIN\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER IV.  THE HERITAGE\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER V.  THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER VI.  THE WINDMILL\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER VII.  THE WIND\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER VIII. OMNES OMNIBUS\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER IX.  THE AFTERMATH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e BOOK II.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER I.  THE TRESPASSERS\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER II.  THE SERVICE OF THESPIS\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER II.  THE COMIC MUSE\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER IV.  EXIT MONSIEUR PARVISSIMUS\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER V.  ENTER SCARAMOUCHE\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER VI.  CLIMENE\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER VII.  THE CONQUEST OF NANTES\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER VIII. THE DREAM\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER IX.  THE AWAKENING\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER X.  CONTRITION\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XI.  THE FRACAS AT THE THEATRE FEYDAU\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e BOOK III.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER I.  TRANSITION\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER II.  QUOS DEUS VULT PERDERE\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER III.  PRESIDENT LE CHAPELIER\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER IV.  AT MEUDON\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER V.  MADAME DE PLOUGASTEL\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER VI.  POLITICIANS\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER VII.  THE SPADASSINICIDES\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER VIII. THE PALADIN OF THE THIRD\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER IX.  TORN PRIDE\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER X.  THE RETURNING CARRIAGE\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XI.  INFERENCES\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XII.  THE OVERWHELMING REASON\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XIII. SANCTUARY\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XIV.  THE BARRIER\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XV.  SAFE-CONDUCT\u003cbr\u003e   CHAPTER XVI.  SUNRISE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSCARAMOUCHE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK I: THE ROBE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I. THE REPUBLICAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.\u003cbr\u003eAnd that was all his patrimony. His very paternity was obscure, although\u003cbr\u003ethe village of Gavrillac had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery\u003cbr\u003ethat hung about it. Those simple Brittany folk were not so simple as to\u003cbr\u003ebe deceived by a pretended relationship which did not even possess\u003cbr\u003ethe virtue of originality. When a nobleman, for no apparent reason,\u003cbr\u003eannounces himself the godfather of an infant fetched no man knew whence,\u003cbr\u003eand thereafter cares for the lad's rearing and education, the most\u003cbr\u003eunsophisticated of country folk perfectly understand the situation. And\u003cbr\u003eso the good people of Gavrillac permitted themselves no illusions on the\u003cbr\u003escore of the real relationship between Andre-Louis Moreau--as the lad had\u003cbr\u003ebeen named--and Quintin de Kercadiou, Lord of Gavrillac, who dwelt in the\u003cbr\u003ebig grey house that dominated from its eminence the village clustering\u003cbr\u003ebelow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndre-Louis had learnt his letters at the village school, lodged the\u003cbr\u003ewhile with old Rabouillet, the attorney, who in the capacity of fiscal\u003cbr\u003eintendant, looked after the affairs of M. de Kercadiou. Thereafter, at\u003cbr\u003ethe age of fifteen, he had been packed off to Paris, to the Lycee of\u003cbr\u003eLouis Le Grand, to study the law which he was now returned to practise\u003cbr\u003ein conjunction with Rabouillet. All this at the charges of his\u003cbr\u003egodfather, M. de Kercadiou, who by placing him once more under the\u003cbr\u003etutelage of Rabouillet would seem thereby quite clearly to be making\u003cbr\u003eprovision for his future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndre-Louis, on his side, had made the most of his opportunities. You\u003cbr\u003ebehold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough\u003cbr\u003eto produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind. Out of\u003cbr\u003ehis zestful study of Man, from Thucydides to the Encyclopaedists, from\u003cbr\u003eSeneca to Rousseau, he had confirmed into an unassailable conviction\u003cbr\u003ehis earliest conscious impressions of the general insanity of his own\u003cbr\u003especies. Nor can I discover that anything in his eventful life ever\u003cbr\u003eafterwards caused him to waver in that opinion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn body he was a slight wisp of a fellow, scarcely above middle height,\u003cbr\u003ewith a lean, astute countenance, prominent of nose and cheek-bones, and\u003cbr\u003ewith lank, black hair that reached almost to his shoulders. His mouth\u003cbr\u003ewas long, thin-lipped, and humorous. He was only just redeemed from\u003cbr\u003eugliness by the splendour of a pair of ever-questing, luminous eyes, so\u003cbr\u003edark as to be almost black. Of the whimsical quality of his mind and\u003cbr\u003ehis rare gift of graceful expression, his writings--unfortunately but too\u003cbr\u003escanty--and particularly his Confessions, afford us very ample evidence.\u003cbr\u003eOf his gift of oratory he was hardly conscious yet, although he had\u003cbr\u003ealready achieved a certain fame for it in the Literary Chamber of\u003cbr\u003eRennes--one of those clubs by now ubiquitous in the land, in which the\u003cbr\u003eintellectual youth of France foregathered to study and discuss the\u003cbr\u003enew philosophies that were permeating social life. But the fame he had\u003cbr\u003eacquired there was hardly enviable. He was too impish, too caustic,\u003cbr\u003etoo much disposed--so thought his colleagues--to ridicule their sublime\u003cbr\u003etheories for the regeneration of mankind.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174574866672,"sku":"2940013117310","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013117310_p0.jpg?v=1763577017","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013117310","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}