by Françoise Chandernagor · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702879450
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«La chambre» is the historical novel by Françoise Chandernagor, published by Le Grand livre du mois in paperback (290 pages, in French).
Paris, 1794. An eight-year-old boy remains locked in a room with boarded-up doors and windows: he is Louis XVII, the Dauphin of France, victim of the Terror after the execution of his parents. The novel reconstructs his captivity and his physical and mental deterioration, combining documentation and fiction to denounce the arbitrariness of power.
Winner of the Prix Pierre Lafue in 2003; this is the French edition from Le Grand livre du mois, published in 2002.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the French Revolution and the childhood of Louis XVII.
Françoise Chandernagor is a French writer. The daughter of André Chandernagor, she is a former student of the École nationale d'administration, and she became a member of the Council of State in 1969.
