Scaramouche (novel) Scaramouche (novel) Scaramouche is an historical novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1921. A romantic adventure, "Scaramouche" tells the story of a young lawyer during the French Revolution. In the course of his adventures he becomes an actor portraying "Scaramouche" (a roguish buffoon character in the "commedia dell'arte"). He also becomes a revolutionary, politician, and fencing-master, confounding his enemies with his powerful orations and swordsmanship. He is forced by circumstances to change sides several times. The book also depicts his transformation from cynic to idealist. The three-part novel opens with the memorable line: "He was born with a gift
Who Paid the Piper? based on the contents of the book, the CIA had a "surprisingly benign" impact, in contradiction with what they believed Saunders would conclude, and that the book "suggests that [the CIA's] role in the arts was considerably less damaging than might reasonably have been feared." Paul Buhle of Brown University described "Who Paid the Piper?" as being the "most spectacular" book recently released about the involvement of CIA and intellectuals; Buhle stated that compared to "Freiheit in der Offensive?" by Michael Hochgeschwender, "Who Paid the Piper?" has fewer footnotes but more "charisma" and "verve". Gow wrote that even though the