by Chantal Thomas · W&N · tapa dura · ISBN 9780297645504
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«Farewell, My Queen» is the historical novel by Chantal Thomas, published by W&N in hardcover (256 pages, in English).
Agathe-Sidonie Laborde, reader to Marie Antoinette, recalls in 1810 the days of 14–16 July 1789, when the fall of the Bastille convulses Versailles. Amid rumors and intrigues the court disintegrates and the queen, adored and reviled, takes on an almost legendary air while the narrator watches the world she believed eternal collapse.
Novel originally published in French as «Les Adieux à la reine», winner of the Prix Femina 2002 and Chantal Thomas's first novel.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the French Revolution, the court of Versailles and intimate portraits of Marie Antoinette.
Chantal Thomas is a French writer and historian. Her 2002 book, Farewell, My Queen, won the Prix Femina and was adapted into a 2012 film starring Diane Kruger and Léa Seydoux.
