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- Essentially the story of Marie Antoinette’s final days, Chantal Thomas’s literary historical novel Farewell, My Queen (2002) focuses on a book reader who reconstructs the notorious opulence of late 18th-century Versailles, a perfectly constructed court that falls apart at the seams.
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Her 2002 book, Farewell, My Queen, won the Prix Femina and was adapted into a 2012 film starring Diane Kruger and Léa Seydoux. Thomas was born in Lyon in 1945, and was raised in Arcachon, Bordeaux, and Paris.
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Farewell, My Queen. This story of Marie-Antoinette takes place over three days at Versailles, starting with 14 July, 1789. The Hall of Mirrors and other well-known grandeurs are described, but it is the smaller areas like the Queen’s Gilt Study that come across more memorably.
Essentially the story of Marie Antoinette’s final days, Chantal Thomas’s literary historical novel Farewell, My Queen (2002) focuses on a book reader who reconstructs the notorious opulence of late 18th-century Versailles, a perfectly constructed court that falls apart at the seams.
Jul 14, 2004 · Farewell, My Queen: A Novel. It was once the job of Madame Agathe-Sidonie Laborde to read books aloud to Marie-Antoinette. Now exiled in Vienna, she looks back twenty-one years to the legendary...
About The Book. It was once the job of Madame Agathe-Sidonie Laborde to read books aloud to Marie-Antoinette. Now exiled in Vienna, she looks back twenty-one years to the legendary opulence of Versailles and meticulously reconstructs July 14, 15, and 16 of 1789.
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- July 14, 2004
Apr 1, 2003 · A woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie-Antoinette is haunted by the memory of her last days at the French court of Versailles, when Louis XVI's magnificent palace succumbed to the irrepressible forces of revolution.
But with the shocking news that someone has woken the King in the night, order begins to disintegrate and word of the fall of the Bastille seeps into court. Madame Agathe-Sidonie Laborde, the...
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