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Chauvelin hated the Pimpernel because he'd successfully spirited hundreds of aristocrats from the guillotine.

Small wonder, therefore, that the romantic and mysterious personality of the Scarlet Pimpernel was a source of bitter hatred to Chauvelin. He and the few young jackanapes under his command, well furnished with money, armed with boundless daring, and acute cunning, had succeeded in rescuing hundreds of aristocrats from France. Nine-tenths of the emigres, who were feted at the English court, owed their safety to that man and to his league.