Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Marguerite Gérard, Louis-Léopold Boilly and Hubert Robert. Paris, 1794: the Pimpernel goes back into the city to bring out the Dauphin from the Temple prison, and Chauvelin has learned enough to bait a trap with the one thing Blakeney cannot refuse. Orczy wrote more than a dozen of these; this is the one where the mask comes off and the man underneath is broken on purpose. Sixty plates from David, Granet and their contemporaries, from moonlit Indian scenes to a burning farmhouse, catch the restless, dangerous Europe of the Pimpernel's world.
