The gentleman of the red house
The knight of the Red House is a novel of vertiginous action, of reading fast by its style and its fabric of intrigues and conspirations, which makes it difficult for the reader to unfold to the end. The novel is inspired by the communications between the Marques de Rougeville and Maria Antonieta. This chapter of French history is known as the affaire of the carnation, because the messages that the Marques de Rougeville sent to Maria Antonieta were hidden among the petals of these flowers. "