# Sir Percy Hits Back — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Sir Percy Hits Back by Baroness Orczy.

- [I](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/i.md): In the village of Sisteron, Lieutenant Godet and his soldiers discuss the Law of the Suspect at the inn Les Amandiers. The Frontenac family is declared suspect, and a perquisition is planned for the next day. Old Baptist
- [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/ii.md): Sir Percy Blakeney and his fellow Scarlet Pimpernel league members, Sir Andrew Ffoulkes and Lord Tony, plan the rescue of the Frontenac family from arrest by revolutionary soldiers. Blakeney describes his failed attempt 
- [III](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/iii.md): The chapter describes Fleurette's home, Lou Mas, and her eighteenth birthday celebration with her father Bibi. The day is joyful with a special dinner and gifts, but turns somber when Fleurette innocently mentions that h
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/iv.md): Fleurette's eighteenth birthday celebration is marked by the arrival of Amédé and his father Hector Colombe. Amidst the festivities, Amédé reveals he must leave to join the army, causing sorrow. Bibi warns of spies, and 
- [Parting is not such sweet sorrow](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/v.md): On her eighteenth birthday, Fleurette bids farewell to Bibi and Amédé, who are leaving for the army. After they depart, she encounters a troop of ragged soldiers led by a gruff officer who inquires after Citizen Armand a
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/vi.md): This chapter describes the de Frontenac family estate, a large farmhouse in Dauphiné, and the family's history and character. Charles de Frontenac, a loyalist to the martyred King, lives a simple, rustic life with his wi
- [Chapter VII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/vii.md): Fleurette learns of the soldiers' raid on the château and the disappearance of Madame and Mademoiselle de Frontenac. Old Mathieu and the servants recount the events: the soldiers arrived, demanded entry in the name of th
- [Chapter VIII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/viii.md): Fleurette, having hidden Madame's valuables, navigates the wreckage of the château after a brutal perquisition by revolutionary soldiers. She encounters her father, Bibi (Chauvelin), who questions her presence. Despite h
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/ix.md): Fleurette flees the château after the arrest, carrying Madame's valuables. She seeks shelter at the widow Tronchet's cottage, where she encounters Adèle and the disapproving widow. Fleurette asks Adèle to secretly delive
- [The Secret Trust](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/x.md): Fleurette, having hidden Madame de Frontenac's valuables, anxiously awaits Amédé Colombe in the darkness. She confides in him about the soldiers' raid on the château, the escape of Madame and Mademoiselle, and her fear t
- [XI](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xi.md): Fleurette and Amédé walk arm in arm through the village, reveling in their newly confessed love and the bond sealed by a kiss, while Fleurette entrusts him with Madame's valuables. They part near Lou Mas, and Fleurette r
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xii.md): The chapter details the arrest of Amédé Colombe, accused of hiding valuables belonging to Madame de Frontenac. A new, immaculate detachment of Republican soldiers arrives in Laragne, led by a magnificent officer who conf
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xiii.md): Fleurette learns from Adèle that Amédé Colombe and M'sieu' de Frontenac have been arrested and taken to Sisteron. Despite old Louise's protests, Fleurette insists on going to Sisteron to comfort Amédé and seek help from 
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xiv.md): Fleurette learns from M'sieu' Duflos that Amédé has been arrested and that Madame de Frontenac's valuables were found in the Colombe's cart-shed. She rushes to the Colombe home, determined to help. Old Louise worries and
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xv.md): Fleurette comforts Ma'ame Colombe and insists on going to Sisteron to confess that she hid Madame de Frontenac's valuables, in order to clear Amédé's name of theft.
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xvi.md): Fleurette and Louise arrive in Sisteron after a long, weary journey, only to face disappointment after disappointment as they search for Citizen Armand. The city is tense with fear of the revolutionary terror, and their 
- [Chapter XVII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xvii.md): Citizen Chauvelin interrogates Lieutenant Godet about the escape of Amédé Colombe, who was rescued by English spies posing as French soldiers. Godet recounts the deception and the subsequent march, while Chauvelin and th
- [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xviii.md): Fleurette and Louise arrive in Orange, where Fleurette hopes to find Bibi and secure Amédé's release. Lieutenant Godet, who recognizes Fleurette from a previous encounter, offers to guide them. He leads them to the Commi
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xix.md): Fleurette arrives in Orange and confesses to her father, Chauvelin, that she stole Madame de Frontenac's valuables to protect Amédé Colombe, who had been falsely accused. Chauvelin, initially overjoyed to see her, is hor
- [Chapter XX](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xx.md): Fleurette is brought before Chauvelin, Pochart, and Danou on a charge of treason, instigated by Lieutenant Godet. Chauvelin struggles to defend her as the men invoke the Law of the Suspect, and he is haunted by visions o
- [Chapter XXI](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxi.md): Chauvelin is forced to sign an order for Fleurette's arrest, while Adèle testifies against her, revealing her spying and the betrayal of the Frontenacs. Fleurette is taken to the house of detention, but remains trusting 
- [XXII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxii.md): Chauvelin successfully maneuvers to have the President of the Tribunal and Public Prosecutor Isnard summoned to Paris, temporarily halting the Revolutionary Tribunal in Orange and buying himself three weeks to try to sav
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxiii.md): Chauvelin, driven by a desperate plan to save Fleurette, manipulates President Legrange and Public Prosecutor Isnard into leaving Valence for Lyons. He then requisitions a chaise to Orange, but after a stormy night at th
- [Chapter XXIV](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxiv.md): Sir Percy Blakeney and his band of Englishmen prepare to leave Amédé Colombe in a secluded cottage while they return to Laragne to gather news of Fleurette. Amédé writes a brief love letter to Fleurette for Sir Percy to 
- [XXV](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxv.md): Fleurette adapts to prison life in Architect Caristie's house, where prisoners engage in macabre playacting of the guillotine to cope with despair. She befriends Claire de Châtelard and the Comtesse de Mornas, finding so
- [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxvi.md): Citizens Pochart and Danou suspect Chauvelin of manipulating the absence of the President and Prosecutor to protect his daughter Fleurette. They plot to use this against him, while Chauvelin returns to Orange and faces t
- [XXVII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxvii.md): Chauvelin uses a decree to take control of the Tribunal, appointing himself as president and planning to appoint a substitute prosecutor, while privately agonizing over the threat to Fleurette and his hatred for the Scar
- [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxviii.md): Chauvelin is tormented by the possibility that the Scarlet Pimpernel might rescue Fleurette, just as he has saved others. He oscillates between hope that his daughter will be saved and fear that his enemy will triumph ag
- [Chapter XXIX](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxix.md): Chauvelin, torn between his public role as a revolutionary judge and his private desperation to save his daughter Fleurette, writes her a secret letter urging her to trust him and remain silent before the tribunal. He pr
- [The Letter in the Shadows](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxx.md): Chauvelin arranges for a letter to be smuggled to Fleurette in prison, bribing two ruffians, Rémi and a scavenger, to deliver it. The meeting takes place in the Café de la Lune and a dark doorway, where Chauvelin insists
- [XXXI](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxxi.md): Fleurette grows accustomed to the grim mockeries in the prison common room, finding some amusement in the antics of a soot-painted aide who plays Satan. She associates him with a secret letter from Amédé and later receiv
- [XXXII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxxii.md): Sir Percy Blakeney, disguised as an English gentleman, confronts Chauvelin in his quarters, revealing that he knows Chauvelin is actually Citizen Armand, Fleurette's father. Blakeney delivers Fleurette's note and warns C
- [XXXIII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxxiii.md): Chauvelin, facing the inevitable tragedy, exhausts all schemes to save Fleurette but realizes the mob's hatred will destroy her. He writes her name on the accusation forms, and Fleurette hears her name on the roll-call f
- [XXXIV](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxxiv.md): Fleurette is brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal, where she is shocked to find Bibi (Chauvelin) presiding as judge. The courtroom is filled with a hostile crowd that boos and hisses at the prisoners. Fleurette trie
- [XXXV](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxxv.md): Fleurette's trial unfolds at the Revolutionary Tribunal, where Chauvelin, as presiding judge, desperately tries to secure her acquittal. Despite his initial success in swaying the crowd, Fleurette's own actions ruin her 
- [XXXVI](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxxvi.md): In the midst of a chaotic trial, a giant incites the crowd against President Chauvelin, revealing himself as Sir Percy Blakeney in disguise. He seizes the unconscious Fleurette and prepares to lead the mob to the guillot
- [XXXVII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxxvii.md): After the dramatic trial, the crowd waits in vain for the prisoners to be brought out. Tartine, Pochart, Danou, and others discover that the private door is locked and the prisoners have vanished. The crowd eventually di
- [Chapter XXXVIII](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxxviii.md): Fleurette, exhausted from the day's trauma, drifts in and out of sleep while traveling in a post-chaise with Bibi. When they arrive in Nîmes, she is terrified until she hears Amédé's voice. He carries her to a safe house
- [XXXIX](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/sir_percy_hits_back_se/chapters/xxxix.md): Chauvelin sits alone in the coach after seeing Fleurette carried to safety, lost in thought until Sir Percy Blakeney joins him. Blakeney reveals that Fleurette and Amédé will sail for England under Lady Blakeney's care, 

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