by Carol Rumens · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213616131
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«Les roses de Bagatelle» is the novel by Madeleine Chapsal, published by Fayard in paperback (287 pages, in French).
Set in Paris in the 1950s, it tells the passionate love between Mathilde and Léonard, a married man who visits her daily but warns her they will never live together. Letters, phone calls and walks through Saint-Germain-des-Prés surround an impossible relationship, in search of the «blue rose» of the Bagatelle rose garden.
Originally published in 2005, the novel takes place in Paris in the 1950s, with the Bagatelle rose garden and Saint-Germain-des-Prés as settings for the relationship.
For readers of romantic novels and stories of impossible love set in Paris in the 1950s.
Madeleine Chapsal was a French writer and the daughter of Robert Chapsal, son of the politician Fernand Chapsal, and of Marcelle Chaumont, who made dresses for Madeleine Vionnet.
