Title : The Unfinished Waltz - Catherine Clément - book

Summary :

In 1874, at the Redoute ball in Vienna, a young and attractive foreign affairs official waltzes with a masked woman. It's love at first sight. She says her name is Gabrielle. Franz will never see his stranger again. He will receive letters and poems from her. Only sixty years later will he learn the truth. In the meantime, Austria will have experienced a sparkling and dramatic history, the cultural apogee of Vienna, the syphilis epidemic, scandals and suicides, the collapse of the Empire in the First World War... It is from real events - the poems and letters have come down to us - that Catherine Clément unfolds this moving historical and romantic fresco, revealing one of the best-kept secrets of the unknown woman at the Redoute ball: the Empress of Austria, Elisabeth, Sissi. Catherine Clément knows how to teach history by captivating us with stories. We have rarely experienced such joyful celebration and study. Jean-François Josselin, Le Nouvel Observateur.

• EAN: 9782253139423
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