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Excerpt from Farewell, My Queen by Chantal Thomas, plus links to reviews, author biography & more
Prologue
Vienna, February 12, 1810
My name is Agathe-Sidonie Laborde, a name rarely spoken, almost a secret.
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I live in the émigré quarter of Vienna, in an apartment on Grashof Street. Its windows open above a paved inner courtyard surrounded at ground level by a number of shops: a second-hand bookshop, a wig maker's, a small printshop, a tailor's.
There is also a spice seller's stall, just at the foot of my apartment building. A lively neighborhood, but not too noisy.
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In the summertime, along with Eastern aromas, there are always notes of music floating in the air. The rosebushes winding their way up the building fronts add a garden charm to this little corner of Vienna. But in the dead of winter, which is what we have at present, the rosebushes have ceased to bloom and the sounds of life from the shops no longer reach me.
For me, in a general way, the sounds