Behind every good man, there is great woman.
And this is her story.
Lady Isabelle Blakeney finds herself drawn into the terror of the French Revolution as a member of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel. And she is not one to shy away from an advent...
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"Lady Isabelle Blakeney was a lovely young woman, not long past twenty, and held herself as a perfect picture of English grace. She shared her brother's golden hair and blue eyes, and other resemblances between the two were clear. However, though he held the stature of a giant among the courts, she was petite and delicate. Nonetheless, she stood proudly at the side of Armand St Just, with eyes full of joy, and a smile on her youthful face."
Percy Blakeney- Theo James:
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"Sir Percy Blakeney, as the chronicles of the time inform us, was, in this year of grace 1792, still a year or two on the right side of thirty. Tall, above the average, even for an Englishman, broad-shouldered and massively built, he would have been called unusually good-looking, but for a certain lazy expression in his deep-set blue eyes, and that perpetual inane laugh which seemed to disfigure his strong, clearly-cut mouth." ('The Scarlet Pimpernel', Baroness Orczy)
Marguerite Blakeney- Jessica Brown Findlay:
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"Marguerite Blakeney was then scarcely five-and-twenty, and her beauty was in its most dazzling stage. The large hat, with its undulating and waving plumes, threw a soft shadow across the classic brow with the aureole of auburn hair- free at the moment from any powder; the sweet childlike mouth, the straight chiselled nose, round chin and delicate throat, all seemed set off by the picturesque costume of the period." ('The Scarlet Pimpernel', Baroness Orczy)
Armand St Just- Timothee Chalamet:
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"His cheeks were glowing, his eyes sparkled with enthusiasm. He looked very young and very eager. Armand St. Just, the brother of Lady Blakeney, had something of the refined beauty of his lovely sister, but the features- though manly- had not the latent strength expressed in them which characterized every line of Marguerite's exquisite face. The forehead suggested a dreamer rather than a thinker, the blue-grey eyes were those of an idealist rather than of a man of action." (Baroness Orczy)
Citizen Chauvelin- Sam Reid:
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"Chauvelin was then nearer forty than thirty- a clever, shrewd-looking personality, with a curious, fox-like expression in the deep, sunken eyes. He was the same stranger who, an hour or two previously, had joined Mr Jellyband in a friendly glass of wine." ('The Scarlet Pimpernel', Baroness Orczy)
