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To: Tax-chick

The Plantagenets wanted to rule both England and France (and fought the Hundred Years War to try to accomplish this), so it hardly counts. I hated “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, “Scaramouche” was a much better book.


627 posted on 05/13/2009 1:46:43 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

My point was that there was a time - several hundred years from the Norman Conquest on - when the English and French nobility were the same people.

I agree with you about the books. I think it’s because “Scaramouche” was written by a man, and men generally produce better adventure novels. Women writers want you to like the characters, especially the heroine, too much.


631 posted on 05/13/2009 1:49:08 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge."~Pr. 14:7)
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