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Why is the guillotine personified in the book the scarlet pimpernel?
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Presumably the same reason people gave nicknames to the electric chair such as Old Smokey, Old Sparky, Yellow Mama, and Gruesome Gertie. (I'm assuming you mean the Madame la Guillotine reference in the first chapter).
During the French Revolution being executed by the guillotine was also called "shaking the hot hand" - similar to "dancing the hangman's jig" in England if you were hanged.
In one of the Scarlet Pimpernel short stories there is a female character nicknamed Madame La Guillotine because she is particularly good at finding aristocrats (this story was developed further in the BBC series with Richard E Grant).
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In "The Scarlet Pimpernel," Sir Percy Blakeley is handsome, rich and utterly adores Marguerite. While the marriage starts out wonderfully, news that she caused a French aristocratic family to executed drives a wedge between them. To further exacerbate the situation, she refuses to give a reason why she did it.
Who is lady marquerite blakeney in the scarlet pimpernel?
She is the wife of Sir Percy and a fashionable, famous, and lovely actress. She gets caught in a conflict between saving her brother Armand and the Scarlet Pimpernel by Chauvelin. Marguerite agrees to help him spy on the SP before she knows who he really is, and once she finds out, she goes to try to stop Chauvelin from capturing her husband. I quoted those adjectives from the book.
What chapter do Percy and marguerite get married?
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