by Chantal Thomas · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020414777
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«Les adieux à la reine» is the historical novel by Chantal Thomas, published by Seuil in paperback (244 pages, in French).
In July 1789, as the French Revolution topples the Ancien Régime, Agathe-Sidonie, reader to Marie Antoinette, recalls from exile the three days that changed the court of Versailles. Fascinated by the queen and by a vanishing world, she reconstructs the bewilderment, loyalties and flights of a society blind to its own end.
The novel won the Prix Femina in 2002 and was published in the Fiction & Cie collection at Seuil.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the French Revolution, the court of Versailles and the perspective of secondary characters.
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.
