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on September 30, 1791 and election of the Legislative
Assembly took place on October 1, 1791, with 745 members
elected by active citizens and divided into a Right faction, consisting
of constitutionalists and Royalists, and a Left faction,
consisting of Girondists, Jacobins and Cordeliers. August 27,
1791, the Declaration of Pillnitz by Frederick William 11 of
Prussia and Leopold 11 of Austria resulted in the alliance of
Austria and Prussia against France in February of 1792 and
the War of the First Coalition.
Stop, said Forrester. All right, those are the highlights,
you ll get the rest during mission programming. The key point
here concerns the fact that the Referee Corps had assigned an
arbitration action to take place during the War of the First
Coalition. There was a call for voluntary enlistment in France
and soldiers of the Temporal Corps were clocked back to vari
The Pimpernel Plot
ous locales in key municipalities to be infiltrated as volunteers
for the French Army of the Republic. Continue, computer.
August 10, 1792, said the computer, rioting mobs broke
into the Tuileries, killed the Swiss Guards, and forced the king
to turn to the Legislative Assembly for protection. The Assembly
imprisoned the king and took away all of his remaining
powers. There were mass arrests under the provisional government
headed by Georges Jacques Danton. September 2 to
September 7, 1792, the September Massacres
Stop, said Forrester. Now by this time, there was total
panic among the aristocrats remaining in France. Computer,
general overview concerning aristocratic emigration circa
1792.
Emigration of ci-devant aristocrats was forcibly prevented
by the provisional government, said the computer. The Committee
of Public Safety, under the leadership of public prosecutor
Fouquier-Tinville, appointed to preside over France s
internal security, was charged with power to arrest and execute
enemies of the Republic. Mass attempts by members of
the aristocracy to escape France, some aided by foreign nationals
Stop, said Forrester. General background on the Scarlet
Pimpernel.
Working, said the computer. The scarlet pimpernel: a
common pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis), having scarlet, white
or purplish flowers that close at the approach of rainy or cloudy
weather also called poor man s weatherglass, red pimpernel.
In conjunction with the French Revolution, the insignia and
alias of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, a group of British
adventurers involved in the smuggling of French aristocrats
to England, specifically, the alias of the leader of the group,
Sir Percy Blakeney
Visual, please, said Forrester.
Time Wars #3
A second later, a holographic image of Sir Percy Blakeney
appeared before the podium. The projection was that of a tall,
broad-shouldered, athletic-looking man with fair hair, blue
eyes, and a strong jaw. He looked handsome, but he had a
look of vague boredom on his face, giving it a slightly sleepy,
insipid air. He was dressed in a short-waisted satin coat, a
waistcoat with wide lapels, tight-fitting breeches, and highly
polished Newmarket boots. His sleeves and collar were
trimmed with fine Mechline lace and he stood in an affected
posture, one leg slightly before the other, one hand on his hip,
the other bent before him and holding a lace handkerchief in
a loose, languid fashion.
There s a pretty flower, said Delaney.
There s your assignment, Delaney, Forrester said. In several
hours, that s what you re going to look like.
Why me? Delaney said, chagrined.
Because Priest s too short and you re about the right build,
said Forrester.
Hell, said Delaney. All right, let s have the rest of it.
The adjustment stems from the temporal interference of
one soldier, named Alex Corderro, assigned to the War of the
First Coalition arbitration action, Forrester said. It was his
first hitch in the field and subsequent investigation shows that
he never should have been accepted in the service in the first
place. Too unstable, a high potential of cracking under stress.
Unfortunately, the corps is so badly in need of cannon-fodder
that we ll take just about anyone these days. As a result of that
sterling policy, we ve got an adjustment on our hands.
Corderro violated the noninterference directives, said
Forrester. He attempted to prevent the capture of some escaping
aristocrats and, in so doing, he shot a captain in the
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