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	The Scarlet Pimpernel
		Set against the backdrop of the bloody French Revolution, this is a tale of courage, betrayal, justice, intrigue, trust, honor and love.
		While on English soil, the "League of the Scarlet Pimpernel" pose as the fanciest of fops to avoid suspicion
		The group's leader - The Scarlet Pimpernel himself - is none other than Sir Percival "Percy" Blakeney, Baronet.
	www.frankwildhorn.com /projects/pimpernel (212 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: The Scarlet Pimpernel
		The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, set during the French Revolution.
		The action takes place during the French Revolution, when a secret society of English aristocrats, called the "League of the Scarlet Pimpernel", is engaged in rescuing their French counterparts from the guillotine.
		Marguerite Blakeney, wife of the foolish, idle and immensely wealthy Sir Percy Blakeney, is of French origin, and is flmailed by the wily French revolutionary, Chauvelin, into betraying the Pimpernel - without realising that he is one and the same as her despised husband.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Scarlet-Pimpernel (489 words)

	Flowers For All Occasions
		Scarlet Pimpernel is a low-growing kind of plant.
		Scarlet pimpernels are found in colors like white, blue, orange, pink and lilac.
		Scarlet pimpernel comes down after the noon time and also while during the rain and overcast climatic conditions.
	all-occasions-flowers.blogspot.com (2935 words)

	Powell's Books - The Scarlet Pimpernel (Bantam Classic) by Baroness Emm Orczy
		The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre.
		Renowned for both his unparalleled bravery and his clever disguises, the Pimpernel’ s identity remains as much a mystery to his sworn enemy, the ruthless French agent Chauvelin, as to his devoted admirer, the beautiful Lady Marguerite Blakeney.
		First published in 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernel is an irresistible novel of love, gallantry, and swashbuckling adventure.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0553214020 (389 words)

	Scarlet Pimpernel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Scarlet Pimpernel is used to treat depression, hemorrhoids, and various kidney and liver disorders.
		The aqueous extract of scarlet pimpernel exhibits stimulation of the uterus in animal models and in in vitro studies of human uteri.
		Because of its oxytocic effects, the use of scarlet pimpernel during pregnancy may result in SAB or preterm labor with prematurity, and therefore its use is not recommended.
	altmed.creighton.edu /preg/scarlet_pimpernel.htm (73 words)

	The Scarlet Pimpernel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, set during the French Revolution.
		The Scarlet Pimpernel is often cited as an early (perhaps the earliest) precursor of the superhero of United States comic books: he is an independently wealthy person with a secret identity which he maintains in action by disguises, while in public life he appears as a politically irrelevant dandy to draw attention away from himself.
		Inspired by the title Scarlet Pimpernel, the Tartan Pimpernel was a nickname given to the Rev Donald Caskie (1902-1983), formerly minister of the Paris congregation of the Church of Scotland, for aiding over 2,000 Allied service personnel to escape from occupied France during World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Scarlet_Pimpernel (1310 words)

	Scarlet pimpernel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis) is a low-growing plant in the family Myrsinaceae.
		This common European plant is generally considered a weed and is an indicator of light soils.
		It is most noted for being the emblem of the fictional hero The Scarlet Pimpernel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scarlet_pimpernel (119 words)

	Scarlet Pimpernel (Anagallis avensis) - Wild Flowers of Sleepy Hollow Lake - An All Creatures Photo Gallery - creation, ...
		scarlet pimpernel foliage is composed of small, acuminate (sharp pointed tip), sessile (without petioles), glabrous (without hairs), and oppositely arranged leaves along the stem, with one pair of leaves perpendicular to the previous and/or next pair.
		(Scarlet Pimpernel - 06a) In this bee's eye view of the center of a scarlet pimpernel flower, we can see the the filaments of the stamens are hairy.
		(Scarlet Pimpernel - 09) To give some idea of the scale of this patch of scarlet pimpernel, remember that the flowers are only 1/4 inch across.
	www.all-creatures.org /picb/wfshl-scarletpimpernel.html (589 words)

	botanical.com - A Modern Herbal \| Pimpernel, Scarlet - Herb Profile and Information
		Gerard thought that the scarlet variety was the male plant, and that the blue was the female.
		Though too small to be eaten in quantities by browsing animals, an extract made from it has been found to have a strong narcotic effect on them and to be of such a poisonous nature as to cause the deaths of some dogs to whom it was experimentally given in considerable doses.
		Its blossoms are larger than those of the Scarlet Pimpernel, and of a pale rose colour, and the leaves which are numerous, are very small in proportion to the blossoms.
	www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/p/pimper33.html (1474 words)

	The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 b 90') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		A soldier catches an aristocrat disguised as a farmer; but disguised as a poor woman the English Scarlet Pimpernel (Leslie Howard) rescues the family of Count de Tourney by telling guards plague is in the wagon.
		Her husband Percy Blakeney (Leslie Howard) recites his poem about the Scarlet Pimpernel and plays the fop, saying he is fatigued from taking the baths.
		When she sees the pimpernel on Percy's portrait, she goes to Andrew to warn him Chauvelin knows Percy is Pimpernel.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1934/ScarletPimpernel.html (483 words)

	The Scarlet Pimpernel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		An Englishman known only by the name the Scarlet Pimpernel has helped scores of French aristocrats to escape from France and thereby avoid the guillotine.
		The Scarlet Pimpernel is a man of many disguises who is always one step ahead of his enemies.
		All of his messages to his associates are always signed with the drawing of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
	www.geocities.com /thezorrolegend/origin/pimpernel.html (292 words)

	Nearctica - Eastern Wildflowers - Primulaceae - Scarlet Pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis)
		Identification: Flowers scarlet to orange-red (rarely white or blue), star-like, with yellow stamens and a darker center.
		Habitat: Scarlet Pimpernel is a weed found in a variety of disturbed habitats such along roadsides and in empty lots and fields.
		Similar Species: The scarlet to orange-red flowers with their long flower stalks and yellow stamens in combination with the ovate, opposite leaves will easily identify this species.
	www.nearctica.com /flowers/otos/primula/Aarven.htm (134 words)

	Full text and plot summary of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
		The Scarlet Pimpernel is by far the best known not only of Orczy?s works but also of stories set during the French Revolution, although the Hungarian-born novelist wrote many more historical novels and a number of sequels to this 1905 novel.
		It has been dramatised and also filmed a number of times with great success and is a fun if not always historically accurate or wholly convincing story.
		This group is led by the cunning and noble Sir Percy Blakeney who with accomplices risks life and limb rescuing the innocents caught up in the Reign of Terror in Paris.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/225/1010 (222 words)

	Showcase: The Official Scarlet Pimpernel Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		The Scarlet Pimpernel is a Frank Wildhorn/Nan Knighton musical, based on the work by Baroness Orczy.
		These sections allow the active Pimpernel fan base to continue to follow the show and its stars today.
		The fan group is known as "The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel", and the list has grown into a friendly and helpful community where we support not only the show, but also each other and the many individuals who have performed in the show in the past.
	www.city-net.com /~broadway/webdesign/pimpernel.shtml (319 words)

	The Scarlet Pimpernel Merchandise
		But he leads a double life as "the Scarlet Pimpernel," rescuer of aristocrats and innocents during the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution.
		The Pimpernel was the first in a long line of "dual-identity" literary and comic book heroes, paving the way for Zorro, Bruce Wayne/Batman, Clark Kent/Superman and more.
		The Scarlet Pimpernel's more recent popularity and notoriety is a result of the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical by Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton, which debuted at New York's Minskoff Theatre in late 1997.
	www.klast.net /sp (423 words)

	Christine Andreas as Marguerite in The Scarlet Pimpernel
		Christine Andreas as Marguerite in The Scarlet Pimpernel
		The best thing about The Scarlet Pimpernel is the happy ending, with good triumphing over evil, something which used to be plentiful in musical theatre 30 years ago, but seems to have gone out of fashion in modern musical theatre.
		The turning point in The Scarlet Pimpernel is the Footbridge scene where Percy learns that Marguerite has not been deceiving him, that she is indeed the woman he has loved all along.
	www.christineandreas.com /scarlet.html (942 words)

	Scarlet Pimpernel Lyrics - - SYNOPSIS - Lyrics
		The Scarlet Pimpernel) has managed with his men to pull off one clever rescue after another, and Robespierre, leader of the French Republic, is enraged.
		Marguerite persuades one of Percy's men to have the Pimpernel meet her on the Grenville footbridge at one in the morning.
		Here, Marguerite finally learns that the Scarlet Pimpernel is none other than her own husband, Percy, and Percy and Chauvelin confront each other in the ultimate showdown (The Duel: Instrumental).
	www.allmusicals.com /lyrics/scarletpimpernel/-synopsis-.htm (1208 words)

	The Scarlet Pimpernel
		The Scarlet Pimpernel) has managed with his men to pull off one clever rescue after another, and Chauvelin responds with a fiery determination to catch this mysterious Pimpernel -Falcon in the Dive.
		Undeterred, Chauvelin commands Marguerite to uncover the identity of the Pimpernel, and she persuades one of Percy's men to have the Pimpernel meet her outside on the footbridge.
		When Percy arrives, disguising his voice and keeping in the shadows, Marguerite confesses her sins to the Scarlet Pimpernel: yes, she has tried to expose him and, yes, she has spied, but it all has stemmed from Chauvelin's coercion and flmail.
	www.capitalplayhouse.com /The_Musical_A_Synopsis.htm (1039 words)

	The Scarlet Pimpernel (Review)
		The intrepid Percy becomes the Pimpernel and his friends are known as The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
		Percy's secret identity is kept from even his wife - Maguerite (Amy Bodnar) - and ironically - she is the reason he has become the Pimpernel.
		THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL performs at the Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street in Downtown Sacramento through Apr. 23.
	www.sacnews.net /sacstage/scarlet.html (449 words)

	The Scarlet Pimpernel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		Both Jekyll and Hyde and The Scarlet Pimpernel have their fervent devotees -- Jekkies and Pimpies, respectively -- and they follow the shows as if they were Phish.
		But Pimpernel, at least, is less reminiscent of Lloyd Webber than of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's pop-musicalization of Les misérables, from which it conscripts its basic time frame, obsessive villain, and melodious combination of romance and portent orchestrated with a sledgehammer.
		But Percy, who himself is the Pimpernel, can't tell his new French bride, Marguerite, since he suspects her of collusion with the Republican enemy and in particular with the vengeful Chauvelin, her former lover.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/theater/00/08/03/THE_SCARLET_PIMPERNEL.html (751 words)

	The Scarlet Pimpernel -- Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		They were traitors to the people of course, all of them, men, women, and children, who happened to be descendants of the great men who since the Crusades had made the glory of France: her old noblesse.
		Their ancestors had oppressed the people, had crushed them under the scarlet heels of their dainty buckled shoes, and now the people had become the rulers of France and crushed their former masters--not beneath their heel, for they went shoeless mostly in these days--but a more effectual weight, the knife of the guillotine.
		Within a few hours of the receipt of this impudent notice, the citoyens of the Committee of Public Safety would hear that so many royalists and aristocrats had succeeded in reaching the coast, and were on their way to England and safety.
	www.litrix.com /pimpern/pimpe001.htm (2271 words)

	The Scarlet Pimpernel
		A master of disguise, unsurpassed swordsman, and superlatively quick-witted strategist, he masterminded the rescuing of countless condemned prisoners before they could lose their heads to the guillotine, ably assisted by the League of the Pimpernel, a band of devoted followers (many of whom were young English noblemen).
		The Scarlet Pimpernel was really Sir Percy Blakeney, one of the richest men in England, seen by his peers as a fool, a brainless fop married in a loveless relationship to Marguerite.
		Comments: The demmed elusive Pimpernel was created by the Baroness Emmuska Orczy and appeared in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) and its ten sequels, as well as a number of films and appearances in other media.
	www.internationalhero.co.uk /b/blakeney.htm (433 words)

	WeeklyFilm.com-The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)-Not Rated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		The Scarlet Pimpernel's true identity as Sir Percy Blakeney, is only known to himself and a small band of his followers.
		The Scarlet Pimpernel has made many enemies over in France, however, and an agent of the Revolutionized French Government, a man named Chauvelin (Raymond Massey), is sent to England to try and catch him.
		Chauvelin knows that the Pimpernel is a member of Sir Percy's social circle, but he doesn't know which socialite it is. Chauvelin then threatens Blakeney's French-born wife, Marguerite (Merle Oberon), with the execution of her brother, who is still living in France, unless she can find the identity of the Pimpernel.
	www.weeklyfilm.com /scarletpimpernel.html (424 words)

	Amazon.com: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Bantam Classic): Books: Emmuska Baroness Orczy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
		With the stage debut of The Scarlet Pimpernel (1903), the Baroness Orczy invented the "masked avenger" genre of fiction--the swashbuckling hero of dual identity.
		The Scarlet Pimpernel is set during the French Reign of Terror, when aristocrats and royalists were being beheaded in the name of "liberty, freedom, and brotherhood".
		The identity of their leader, the Scarlet Pimpernel, is a guarded secret but one that interests more and more people as more and more French aristocrats are discovered in safety in England.
	www.amazon.com /Scarlet-Pimpernel-Bantam-Classic/dp/0553214020 (1542 words)

	The Scarlet Pimpernel
		Following in the footsteps of previous movie Pimpernels Dustin Hoffman, Leslie Howard and David Niven, Anthony Andrews stars as British nobleman Percy Blakeney, who doubles as that legendary rescuer of French aristocrats, the "damn'd elusive" Scarlet Pimpernel.
		French revolutionary leader Chauvelin (Ian McKellan), whose fondest wish is to bundle the Pimpernel and his followers off to the guillotine, likewise does not suspect that the prissy Sir Percy is the man he seeks.
		Adapted for television by William Bast, the 1982 Scarlet Pimpernel was filmed on location in Britain and France.
	members.tripod.com /~janeseymour/scarlet_pimpernel.htm (288 words)

	The Scarlet Pimpernel
		Based on the classic novels The Scarlet Pimpernel and Eldorado by Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel features the stunning Jane Seymour (East of Eden, Dr.
		But one foppish gentleman, Sir Percy (Andrews), alias the Scarlet Pimpernel, bravely rescues aristocrats from the jaws of death.
		Marguerite however, is involved with Chauvelin (McKellen), a villainous revolutionary, who is determined to eliminate the aristocratic class from French society.
	www.mckellen.com /video/scarlet/index.htm (294 words)

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