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During this conflict, the protagonist of a novel gives speeches using the pseudonym “Omnes Omnibus” before joining a commedia dell’arte group. In a novel primarily set during this conflict, the note “Drive him fast to his tomb” is left with a knife stabbed into a man’s heart while he slept in his mansion. This conflict provides the backdrop for Rafael Sabatini’s novel Scaramouche. During this conflict, a man kisses a fainted woman’s forehead and whispers, “A life you love.” Marguerite learns that her husband Percy Blakeney saves people during this conflict (10[1])in (10[1])Baroness Orczy’s (10[2])(“ORT-see’s”) novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. (10[1])In this conflict, people whose names are knitted by Madame Defarge are ordered to be executed. (10[1])For 10 points, Charles Dickens’s (10[1])A Tale of Two Cities (10[1])is set during (10[1])what conflict in which Sydney (10[1])Carton is guillotined? ■END■

ANSWER: French Revolution
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