The leopard boy /Daniel Picouly ; translated by Jeanne Garane.
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource
- CARAF books : Caribbean and African literature translated from French .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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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Illegitimate children of royalty--France. Racially mixed children--Fiction. Queens--France--Fiction.