by Frédéric Richaud · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246636311
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«La ménagerie de Versailles» is the novel by Frédéric Richaud, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (192 pages, in French).
At the court of Louis XIV, the Marquis de Dunan craves royal favour: he believes that presenting the king with an exotic beast for his menagerie at Versailles, alongside pelicans and ostriches, will bring him glory and fortune. He travels the kingdom's fairs without success and embarks on an adventure where the wild beasts are not always what they seem.
The cover includes the subtitle «roman»; the work was published on 10 January 2007.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction, especially those interested in the court of Louis XIV and seventeenth-century Versailles.
