Farewell, My Queen

Chantal Thomas · 2002 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

Versailles, 14 to 16 July 1789: the queen's reader watches a court learn of the Bastille's fall and begin to dissolve, while her devotion to Marie Antoinette hardens. A historical novel from the servants' side of the palace, it won the Prix Femina and was filmed by Benoît Jacquot in 2012.

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