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| Title | : | Farewell, My Queen |
| Author | : | Chantal Thomas |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 233 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0743260783 |
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
When Agathe Sidonie is summoned to the Queen s side on the morning of the 14th, Versailles is a miniature universe, sparkling w
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 1789When Agathe Sidonie is summoned to the Queen s side on the morning of the 14th, Versailles is a miniature universe, sparkling with every outward appearance of happiness and power, peopled with nobles of minutely calibrated rank, and run according to a hundred year old ritual called the Perfect Day 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 Soon Versailles s beauty is nothing than a shell encasing rising panic and chaos Agathe Sidonie watches as the Queen s attempts to flee are aborted her most intimate friend betrays her and the King, appearing to sleepwalk through this crisis, never alters his routine of visiting the Apollo Salon several times a day to consult a giant crystal thermometer
From the tiniest garret to the Hall of Mirrors, where Marie Antoinette stands alone and terrified in the dark, Chantal Thomas shows us a world on the edge of oblivion and an intimate portrait of the woman who, like fire in motion, was its center.
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Chantal Thomas born 1945 in Lyon 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 L a Seydoux.Thomas was born in Lyon in 1945, and was raised in Arcachon, Bordeaux, and Paris Her life has included teaching jobs at American and French universities such as Yale and Princeton as well as a publishin Chantal Thomas born 1945 in Lyon 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 L a Seydoux.Thomas was born in Lyon in 1945, and was raised in Arcachon, Bordeaux, and Paris Her life has included teaching jobs at American and French universities such as Yale and Princeton as well as a publishing career She has published nineteen works, including essays on the Marquis de Sade, Casanova, and Marie Antoinette.In 2002, Thomas published Les adieux la reine Farewell, My Queen The novel gave a fictional account of the final days of Marie Antoinette in power through the perspective of one of her servants It won the Prix Femina in 2002, and was later adapted into the 2012 film Farewell, My Queen The film stars Diane Kruger as the titular queen and L a Seydoux as her servant Sidonie Laborde Thomas co wrote the screenplay,and it opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival Helen Falconer of The Guardian called the work a well written slice of history with evocative, observant prose, but criticized it for creating a narrator who merely provides us with a pair of eyes to see through rather than capturing our interest in her own right While disagreeing in its classification as a novel, Falconer did however add that Farewell, My Queen generates in the reader a real sense of being a fly on the wall, eavesdropping on the affairs of the great and the not so good Thomas is currently the director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research from Wikipedia 
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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
233 pagesChantal Thomas
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