Farewell, My Queen
Touchstone, Jul 2004, 14.00, 233 pp.
ISBN: 0743260783
Two decades have passed since the momentous events of the final days of the reign of King Louis XVI and his Queen Marie-Antoinette. The Queen's deputy reader, Madam Agathe-Sidonie Laborde, from the safety of her Vienna apartment looks back to the revolutionary fervor that beheaded the monarchy and recalls that final month in the summer of ‘89. Leading up to the three heated July days, the o...
