The Mystery of the Royal Tapestry
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The Mystery of the Royal Tapestry
9.99 €
Penelope Breuil, a young and ambitious museum curator, begins work at the Bayeux Tapestry Museum and is not happy with her fate. She dreamed of working at the Louvre, dabbling in Egyptian antiquities, and living in bustling Paris. Instead, she finds herself bored in a remote place, day after day admiring an embroidered depiction of the exploits of William the Conqueror, who conquered England. However, boredom is not in the cards for Penelope. Someone is trying to kill her boss, the museum's director. The Louvre director assigns Penelope a secret mission. Together with her friend, a frivolous Parisian journalist, and another local journalist who has developed a soft spot for her, Penelope begins a hunt for the lost three meters of the Tapestry, which depicts the finale of William's campaign, a campaign that could wipe out the entire history of the English crown. What does the death of Princess Diana, the secret negotiations of the English King Edward VIII, who had once abdicated the throne, and General von Choltitz's order to transport the Tapestry to Germany at the end of the occupation of Paris in 1944 have to do with this? It all depends, and Penelope will have to solve these mysteries, as well as many others, sometimes at great personal risk.
Adrien Goetz is a renowned French art historian, professor at the Sorbonne, member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, director of the Académie Marmottan Library, and a brilliant writer. "The Enigma of the Royal Tapestry" is the first novel about the adventures of museum curator Penelope Breuil, for which Goetz received the prestigious Arsène Lupin Mystery Award (2007). Here, ancient history is always close at hand, invariably concealing secrets that can drastically change the familiar modernity of an entire continent, and at times seriously threaten lives.
Adrien Goetz is a renowned French art historian, professor at the Sorbonne, member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, director of the Académie Marmottan Library, and a brilliant writer. "The Enigma of the Royal Tapestry" is the first novel about the adventures of museum curator Penelope Breuil, for which Goetz received the prestigious Arsène Lupin Mystery Award (2007). Here, ancient history is always close at hand, invariably concealing secrets that can drastically change the familiar modernity of an entire continent, and at times seriously threaten lives.
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