Monsieur Beaucaire (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- First Published: 1900
- Type of Work: Novelette
- Type of Plot: Period romance
- Time of Work: Early eighteenth century
- Setting: Bath, England
- Principal Characters: Louis-Phillipe de Valois, Duke de Winterset, Lady Mary Carlisle, Molyneaux, Beau Nash
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Satire, Farce
- Subjects: Love or romance, Gambling, England or English people, Barbershops or barbers, Eighteenth century, Duels or dueling
- Locales: England, Bath, England
The Story:
Victor, alias Monsieur Beaucaire, the barber of the French ambassador to England, gambled with the socially elite of Bath for any amount. It was the early eighteenth century, when Bath society was under the leadership of Beau Nash. One night, M. Beaucaire caught the English Duke de Winterset cheating at his table. Instead of hush money, however, Beaucaire exacted Winterset’s promise to take him, a barber in disguise, to Lady Malbourne’s ball, and there to introduce him to the young and beautiful Lady Mary Carlisle.
Winterset was disgusted beyond...
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