by Françoise Mallet-Joris · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080667175
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«Les larmes» is the historical novel by Françoise Mallet-Joris, published by Flammarion in paperback (443 pages, in French).
In Regency France, the young sculptor Catherine sculpts a wax bust of Antoinette, whose beauty awakens the passion of Sanson, executioner of Paris, and of the Duke of Orleans. Amid conspiracies and entanglements, Catherine tries to save the knight she loves from the intrigues he himself has woven.
Work originally published in 1993 by Flammarion in Paris. The full subtitle announces the true story of a wax bust, two girls, a prince, and an executioner.
Will appeal to those seeking a fast-paced historical novel, with conspiracies, passion, and a determined heroine, set in the eighteenth-century French court.
Françoise Mallet-Joris, the pen name of Françoise Lilar, was a Belgian author. She was a member of the Prix Femina committee from 1969 to 1971 and was appointed to the Académie Goncourt from November 1971 to 2011.
