''Le Roi au-delà de la mer'' ("The King Over the Water" as it deliberately and knowingly evokes the Stuart exile from Britain) is a 2000 novel by the French writer
Jean Raspail
Jean Raspail (, 5 July 1925 – 13 June 2020) was a French author, traveler, and explorer. Many of his books are about historical figures, exploration and indigenous peoples. He was a recipient of the prestigious French literary awards Grand Pri ...
. The book is written as a series of letters from a mentor to the young king of France, who sets up his court on a small island in order to avoid the disgracefulness of the contemporary world. Raspail uses the book to reject what he describes as "magazine princes" and champions a monarchism that is not merely for decorative purposes.
Reception
Éric Deschodt
Éric Deschodt (born 30 March 1937) is a French journalist, writer and translator. He wrote police novels written in collaboration under the pseudonym Bernard-Paul Lallier.
Biography
Éric Deschodt was Anne-Marie Deschodt's brother. of ''
L'Express'' wrote: "The French monarchists of today are mainly concerned with nostalgia and disappointment. The nostalgia can only be vague: the
Capetians are far away. The disappointment is more precise: when it comes to power and influence, the France of today and that of the
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when
Louis XVI
Louis XVI (''Louis-Auguste''; ; 23 August 175421 January 1793) was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. He was referred to as ''Citizen Louis Capet'' during the four months just before he was ...
reigned have nothing more in common than the name and the territory. Implied or declared, the beautiful regrets of
Jean Raspail
Jean Raspail (, 5 July 1925 – 13 June 2020) was a French author, traveler, and explorer. Many of his books are about historical figures, exploration and indigenous peoples. He was a recipient of the prestigious French literary awards Grand Pri ...
won't persuade
eft-wing presidential candidate who has already taken sides, but many others will be touched, without being attached to either throne or altar."
References
External links
Publicity pageat the French publisher's website
at the author's website
2000 French novels
Epistolary novels
French-language novels
Novels about royalty
Novels by Jean Raspail
Éditions Albin Michel books
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