He sets off from Gavrillac for Rennes, expecting that the King's lieutenant in Brittany will see justice done. Moreau vows to avenge the death by undertaking Vilmorin's work, even though Moreau himself does not believe in the cause. While pleading with the Marquis for justice, de Vilmorin is provoked into duelling with the Marquis and is killed for his "gift of eloquence", which the Marquis fears will set the common people against the clergy and nobility. The idealistic Philippe de Vilmorin, a seminarian and Moreau's closest friend, denounces the act as murder. A peasant, Mabey, is shot for poaching by the gamekeeper of the Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr, on the Marquis's instructions. Because he loves her as a cousin, he warns her against marrying the Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr however, she is ambitious and wishes to marry high, so she ignores him. Moreau has grown up alongside Aline, de Kercadiou's niece, and their relationship is that of cousins. The three-part novel opens with the line: "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." This line is Sabatini's epitaph, inscribed on his gravestone in Adelboden, Switzerland.Īndre-Louis Moreau, educated as a lawyer, lives in the village of Gavrillac in Brittany with his godfather, Quentin de Kercadiou, the Lord of Gavrillac, who refuses to disclose Moreau's parentage.
The book also depicts his transformation from cynic to idealist.
He is forced by circumstances to change sides several times. He also becomes a revolutionary, politician, and fencing-master, confounding his enemies with his powerful orations and swordsmanship. In the course of his adventures, he becomes an actor portraying Scaramouche (a roguish buffoon character in the commedia dell'arte). A romantic adventure, Scaramouche tells the story of a young lawyer during the French Revolution. Scaramouche is a historical novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1921.
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