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The leopard boy /Daniel Picouly ; translated by Jeanne Garane.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813937915
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PQ2676 .L467 2016
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Edmond and Jones -- Rue des Moineaux -- Sweet victory -- Haarlem -- Moka -- Sainte-Plagie prison -- La du Barry -- Zamor -- The marquise -- Black Felorme -- Marie-Antoinette -- Afterword.
Subject: "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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PQ2676.274 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1137820542

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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