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The leopard boy
Enfant léopard. English
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"This prize-winning historical novel, set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, centers on the search by conflicting parties for a mottled-skinned boy rumored to be the son of Marie-Antoin...
"This prize-winning historical novel, set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, centers on the search by conflicting parties for a mottled-skinned boy rumored to be the son of Marie-Antoinette and a man of color. Of mixed-race parentage himself, Daniel Picouly offers a prescient re-creation of postcolonial France in light of its immigrant population"--
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- Creator
- Daniel Picouly ; translated by Jeanne Garane
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016
- ©2016
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- Physical Details
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- viii, 293 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813937892, 0813937892, 9780813937908, 0813937906, 9780813937915
- OCLC
- ocn907662059
- "Originally published in French as L'Enfant leopard © Éditions Grasset & Faquelle, 1999"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Dame guillotine -- Edmond and Jones -- Rue des Moineaux -- Sweet victory -- Haarlem -- Moka -- Sainte-Plagie prison -- La du Barry -- Zamor -- The marquise -- Black Felorme -- Marie-Antoinette -- Afterword
Subjects
- Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 -- Fiction.
- Illegitimate children of royalty -- France.
- Racially mixed children -- Fiction.
- Queens -- France -- Fiction.
- France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction.
- France -- History -- Reign of Terror, 1793-1794 -- Fiction.