Monsieur Beaucaire | Monsieur Beaucaire

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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

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.

Monsieur Beaucaire | Monsieur Beaucaire

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