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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 (10[1])while he slept in his mansion. (10[1])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 in Baroness Orczy’s (“ORT-see’s”) novel (-5[1])The Scarlet Pimpernel. In this conflict, people whose names are knitted by Madame Defarge (10[1])are ordered (10[1])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■ (10[1])

ANSWER: French Revolution
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Sam Macchi (DII)VassarNYU B5210
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