FILTER:MICHEL LAFON

Date 21 November 2019
Pages 290
Format cm 15 x 23
Price € 19.95
EAN 9782749941516
Publisher Website www.michel-lafon.fr

The Bonfire of Destiny

Author Odile Bouhier
Publisher Michel Lafon
Keywords Feminism
A Netflix blockbuster series adaptation.

Paris, 1897. Everyone who's anyone has gathered at the annual Charity Bazaar Gala when a devastating fire breaks out during a demonstration of the cinematograph, the Lumière brothers' revolutionary new device. Within minutes, the wooden edifice is engulfed in flames.
126 people lose their lives, mainly high-society women accompanied by their ladies-in-waiting, some of them trampled to death by men trying to save their own skins.
The destinies of three women - Adrienne de Lenverpre, Alice de Jeansin and her maid Rose Rivière - are profoundly altered by the tragedy. They must now seek to reinvent themselves...
Novelization of the international Netflix series.