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The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy [Classics](1914)
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The year is 1623, the place Haarlem in the Netherlands.
Diogenes - the first Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel's ancestor - and his friends Pythagoras and Socrates defend justice and the royalist cause.
The famous artist Frans Hals also makes an appearance in this historical adventure.