The Laughing Cavalier
by Emma Orczyliterary work· published 1913
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The Laughing Cavalier is a historical adventure novel by Baroness Orczy, first published in 1914 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and by the George H. Doran Company in the United States. It was also serialised in Adventure magazine the same year. The novel's full subtitle is The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The story is set in the Dutch Republic in 1623–1624 and centres on Diogenes, a swashbuckling English mercenary whose real name is Percy Blakeney—the ancestor of Sir Percy Blakeney, the hero of Orczy's famous Scarlet Pimpernel novels set during the French Revolution. The novel incorporates Frans Hals' 1624 painting The Laughing Cavalier into its plot, with Blakeney depicted as Hals' adopted son and the subject of the famous portrait.
Adaptations (1)
The Laughing Cavalier was adapted into a 1917 film.
The Laughing Cavalier1917 · film · dir. A.V. Bramble, Eliot Stannard · IMDb ↗In Holland, cavaliers rescue the governor and his daughter from Spanish spies.