In the center of the action of Raphael Sabatini's historical adventure duology is the life of Andre-Louis Moreau, a contemporary and active participant in the French Revolution, full of bright events, sharp turns, risky ups and downs. In the first novel (1921), Moreau, a young French lawyer, by chance joins a traveling theater troupe and becomes an actor, performing under the guise of the boastful warrior Scaramouche, and then, in years of social upheaval, a revolutionary, politician and duelist who desperately resists powerful of this world. A meeting with an old enemy (and rival in love) Marquis de Latour d'Azir reveals to Andre Louis the stunning truth about his own origins... In The Return of Scaramouche (1931), the interweaving of other people's political intrigues and personal motives leads Moreau into the camp of opponents of the revolution, which has already begun to devour own children. Having gone over to the side of the monarchists, Sabatini's hero turns out to be the arbiter of the destinies of French history: a participant in a conspiracy designed to save Marie Antoinette, the initiator of a scam with shares of the East India Company and, finally, the main culprit in the failure of the Bourbon restoration almost on the eve of their victory...