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PERCY: Paul, my pal, here is my prediction: your girlfriend is definitely going to betray you to the Committee of Public Safety and .... it is going to be so much better for your romance than this Madonna bullshit, I speak from experience, everyone should try it!

That is ridiculous but awesome.

(A direct canonical description of Percy speaking French: "the voice, with its strange, unaccountable accent, which seemed to belong to no province of France." PERCY, YOU'RE NOT EVEN TRYING.)

Look, everyone knows the Scarlet Pimpernel is a nigh-supernatural master of disguise; obviously if Citizen Lenoir were secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel, his accent would be much better than that!

Fortunately, this is all according to Percy's plan, and by the end Paul, Juliette, Paul's mother, Paul's poor tragic unlovable cousin, and Juliette's old nurse are all on their way to England to set up for the next book, which I was planning to write about in this post but will save for the next one because this has already gotten long!

Does his cousin get a better subplot in England?