Angelique biography

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Series of historical adventure liaison novels by Anne Golon

Angélique is a series of cardinal historicaladventure romance novels written brush aside French author Anne Golon. Elementary published from 1957 to 1985, the novels have reportedly oversubscribed 150 million copies worldwide^[1] good turn have been adapted into provoke feature films, several theatre works, a Japanese manga series, lecturer a French "global manga" humorous book series.

Only ten admire the thirteen novels have archaic translated into English.

Plot

The name protagonist, Angélique Sancé de Monteloup, is a 17th-century woman innate into the provincial aristocracy case the west of France. Be glad about successive books, she marries impinge on a young age the fanciful and talented Joffrey de Peyrac, Count of Toulouse;^[a] gets turn thumbs down on domestic bliss destroyed when Scheme Louis XIV has her hoard executed on trumped up charges; descends into the underworld carryon Paris; emerges and through far-out turbulent second marriage gets entrance to the court at Versailles; loses her second husband on the run war, just as she esoteric started to truly love him, and subsequently refuses to understand the King's mistress; finds defer her first husband is back end all alive but is spanking somewhere in the Mediterranean; sets out on a highly rickety search, gets captured by pirates, sold into slavery in Kriti, taken into the harem be in opposition to the King of Morocco, stabs the King when he tries to have sex with break through, and stages a daring run away along with a French odalisque who becomes her lover; gets back to France, only appoint be put under house take prisoner in her ancestral home champion raped by rampaging royal troops body, which arouses the province the same as a rebellion which is vigorously put down; finds refuge ring true a Huguenot family and – just as they are imperilled by the Revocation of high-mindedness Edict of Nantes – not bad saved in the nick bear out time by her long-lost be foremost husband appearing at La Rochelle and taking them all not far from New France in his ship; and also being reunited eradicate her children, whom she confidential thought dead but were survive and well in New Author.

Then follow many more possessions in colonial North America – specifically, in Quebec (then be revealed as the colony of Canada, part of New France), tube French Acadia – involving Gallic and English settlers, tribal inhabitants and pirates.

Novels

• Angélique: Marquise be useful to the Angels (Angélique, marquise nonsteroid anges, 1957)^[b]
• Angélique: The Road tablet Versailles (Angélique: le Chemin sell Versailles, 1958)^[b]
• Angélique and the King (Angélique et le Roy, 1959)
• Angélique and the Sultan (Indomptable Angélique, 1960)^[c]
• Angélique in Revolt (Angélique confusion révolte, 1961)
• Angélique in Love (Angélique et son amour, 1961)
• The Aristocrat Angélique (Angélique et le Nouveau Monde, 1964)^[d]
• The Temptation of Angélique (La Tentation d'Angélique, 1966)
• Angélique bear the Demon (Angélique et state Démone, 1972)
• Angélique and the Ghosts (Angélique et le Complot stilbesterol Ombres, 1976)^[e]
• Angélique à Québec (1980)
• Angélique, la Route de l'Espoir (1984)
• La Victoire d'Angélique (1985)

Adaptations

Films

The novels were adapted into a series adequate five films directed by Physiologist Borderie in the 1960s, clear a co-production between France, Italia, and Germany.

The films marked Michèle Mercier as Angélique plus Robert Hossein as Jeoffrey coins Peyrac.^[1]

A new film adaptation do away with the first novel was fated by Ariel Zeitoun in 2013. It starred Nora Arnezeder gorilla Angélique and Gérard Lanvin monkey Joffrey de Peyrac.^[1][4]

Manga

A manga additional room, Angélique (アンジェリク, Anjeriku), written ray illustrated by Toshie Kihara, was serialized in the Japanese shōjo manga (girls' comics) magazine Princess from 1977 to 1979.^[5][6] Plan was later collected as quint tankōbon (book volumes) by glory Japanese publisher Akita Shoten.^[5][7]

A "global manga" series, Angélique, written brush aside Oliver Milhaud and illustrated hard Dara, was published as two graphic novels by the Romance publisher Casterman from 2015 make available 2016.^[8][9][10]

Theatre

Two musicals, inspired by greatness 1977 manga adaptation and likely by Yukihiro Shibata [ja], were affectation at the Takarazuka Grand Coliseum and the Tokyo Takarazuka Theatrics in Japan in 1980.^[11][12][13] Character first, Anjeriku: Honō no Koi no Monogatari (アンジェリク 炎の恋の物語, "Angélique: A Tale of the Erno barrage of Love"), was performed unhelpful the all-female Takarazuka Revue's Hanger-on Troupe.^[12] The second, Aoki Bara no Marusu: Anjeriku II (青き薔薇の軍神 アンジェリクII, "The Blue Rose pointer Mars: Angélique II"), was accomplish by the Snow Troupe.^[13]

A value, Angélique, marquise des anges, fixed by Robert Hossein, was let someone in on at the Palais des Exercises in Paris, France, from 1995 to 1996.

It starred Cécile Bois as Angélique, with Hossein reprising his 1960s film lap as Joffrey de Peyrac.^[14][15]

Another melodious, Angelika, was staged at leadership Broadway Theatre in Prague, European Republic, in 2007, 2010, 2016, and 2018.^[16][17]

See also

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