The Laughing Cavalier (novel) of Sir Percy Blakeney, known to history as the Scarlet Pimpernel." EMMUSKA ORCZY <br>Haarlem, 1913 The Laughing Cavalier (novel) The Laughing Cavalier is a 1913 adventure novel by Baroness Orczy, which revolves around Percy Blake, a foreign adventurer and ancestor of Orczy's famous character, the Scarlet Pimpernel. The story takes place in Holland in 1623/1624 and is partly inspired by Frans Hals' painting "The Laughing Cavalier": in the novel, Blake is Frans Hals' adopted son and the man who poses for the painting of the Laughing Cavalier. The sequel to this book, continuing the story of Percy Blake, is "The
The Laughing Man (band) The Laughing Man (band) The Laughing Man is a pop group from Wuppertal, Germany. Founded in 2003, the band plays pop music. Stefan Neumann aka J. Gedsudski, a singer with an audible German accent, says that The Laughing Man tries to "deconstruct the language to get new meanings out of it". The independent pop music of the Laughing Man, the name inspired by J.D. Salinger's story of the same name, is influenced by The Smiths, The Beatles, The Clash, American Music Club and many other British and U.S. bands of the 1980s and early '90s. The band is well known