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The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel · Character

Hébert

A radical revolutionary journalist.

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First appearance: I: “The Everlasting Stars Look Down, Like Glistening Eyes Bright with Immortal Pity, Over the Lot of Man.”

Hébert shows up with force in I: “The Everlasting Stars Look Down, Like Glistening Eyes Bright with Immortal Pity, Over the Lot of Man.”. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Referenced as one of the victims of Robespierre's purge, described as 'the carrion' and idol of the mob.
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In I: “The Everlasting Stars Look Down, Like Glistening Eyes Bright with Immortal Pity, Over the Lot of Man.”: Referenced as one of the victims of Robespierre's purge, described as 'the carrion' and idol of the mob.

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TATallienTCTheresia Cabar…DADantonMBMarguerite Bla…HÉHébert

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Marguerite’s realization that Bertrand Moncrif—a man her husband saved—has betrayed them, combined with her he…

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