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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 (10[1])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 in Baroness (10[1])Orczy’s (“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. For 10 points, Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is set during what conflict in which Sydney Carton is guillotined? ■END■

ANSWER: French Revolution
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Emmett Bicknell (DII)CedarvilleOhio State B5810
Todd MaslykMichigan AOhio State A9210
Aidan Jordan (DII)KenyonMichigan B9710