The Mystery of the Palace of Versailles – Goetz Adrian – ABC – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-389-30354-6
The Mystery of the Palace of Versailles
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The Mystery of the Palace of Versailles
14.99 €
Penelope Breuil, a young and enthusiastic museum employee, arrives at Versailles to work as a textile curator. It's a quiet, respectable position that promises no surprises, especially since the Palace of Versailles has no ancient textiles. But it soon becomes clear that things won't be boring.
A corpse is discovered in Latona's fountain, an unaccounted-for desk that shouldn't be in Versailles is found in Queen Marie Antoinette's private apartments, and a severed finger is found in a drawer. A mysterious Chinese philanthropist, a Red Guard in his youth, now dreaming of building a replica of the Palace of Versailles in his home country, promises the museum unprecedented financial infusions. Artistic guerrillas are operating within the palace. The Jansenists—followers of a long-vanished Catholicism suppressed by Louis XIV and his successors—perform sinister religious rites at night in the deserted Versailles park. Penelope and the journalist Vandria, her loyal, if sometimes weak-willed, knight, have many questions that are unsafe to ask. Incidentally, it's possible that the corpse in the fountain is not the only victim...
Adrien Goetz is a renowned French art historian, professor at the Sorbonne, member of the Academy of Fine Arts, director of the Academy's Marmottan Library, and a brilliant writer. "The Enigma of the Palace of Versailles" is the second novel in his series about the adventures of museum curator Penelope Breuil. Here, the power struggle that cost many their lives over the centuries continues unabated, centuries-old history returns and shows a not-so-pretty face, and Marie Antoinette still has much to say.
A corpse is discovered in Latona's fountain, an unaccounted-for desk that shouldn't be in Versailles is found in Queen Marie Antoinette's private apartments, and a severed finger is found in a drawer. A mysterious Chinese philanthropist, a Red Guard in his youth, now dreaming of building a replica of the Palace of Versailles in his home country, promises the museum unprecedented financial infusions. Artistic guerrillas are operating within the palace. The Jansenists—followers of a long-vanished Catholicism suppressed by Louis XIV and his successors—perform sinister religious rites at night in the deserted Versailles park. Penelope and the journalist Vandria, her loyal, if sometimes weak-willed, knight, have many questions that are unsafe to ask. Incidentally, it's possible that the corpse in the fountain is not the only victim...
Adrien Goetz is a renowned French art historian, professor at the Sorbonne, member of the Academy of Fine Arts, director of the Academy's Marmottan Library, and a brilliant writer. "The Enigma of the Palace of Versailles" is the second novel in his series about the adventures of museum curator Penelope Breuil. Here, the power struggle that cost many their lives over the centuries continues unabated, centuries-old history returns and shows a not-so-pretty face, and Marie Antoinette still has much to say.
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