Author: Specialist eighteenth, foremost historian and essayist , Chantal Thomasdid not multiply under the caps. She taught in many American universities , including Yale and Princeton , is Director of Research at Centre National Scientific Research , working in the world and in productions of Radio France .She wrote essays on Sade , Casanova and Marie Antoinette . She is also the author of stories more personal: 'Real life girls' and' How to support his freedom'. In 2002, she won the Prix Femina for his first novel , " Farewell to the Queen '. She also serves on the jury of the competition since 2003. In ' Suffering'(2003),' The Floating Island ',' The Queen's Palace ' (2005) or ' Paths of sand'(2006), Chantal Thomas tackles universal themes such as freedom, and built a universe subtle touch with reality, which is not without delight audiences and critics.
We're in the middle of the eighteenth century, during the disastrous Seven Years War, the reign of Louis XV.
Two sisters, Ursula and Apollonia, are the heroines of this story. They were born in Bordeaux, in a very religious. The father, a follower of Providence, engages with delight at the joy of doing nothing. The mother is praying. The family sinks into poverty. What Apolline barely noticed, while his older sister, driven by ambition and the spirit of freedom, has one wish: escape. The sisters lost sight of. Apolline is put into a convent, then became tutor in a castle. She emerges to find his dying sister, and discover, through a manuscript, the story of his adventures.
Ursula, renamed Olympus has managed to do take her to Paris by the Duke of Richelieu, the great governor of Aquitaine. She dreams of a career in theater, but the offer Richelieu to Louis XV at Versailles, which installs in his small house in the Parc-aux-Deer. A brilliant opening to her fate ...
As Farewell to the Queen, this novel is the result of an alchemy between erudition and fantasy. We plunge into an era, its colors, smells, rituals, and in a world dominated by the strange duo formed by the Duc de Richelieu, the most famous libertine of his century, and King Louis XV, inhabited by the taste death, the desire of women, and the sense of sin.
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