TY - BOOK AU - France,Anatole AU - Stritzko,JosA.V. TI - The Queen Pedauque AV - PQ PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Bildungsromans KW - Egypt -- Fiction KW - Christian women saints -- Fiction KW - Mary, of Egypt, Saint -- Fiction KW - Picaresque fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Sign_of_the_Reine_P%C3%A9dauque; Translation of La rôtisserie de la reine Pédauque; Release date is 2004-09-01; Text files produced by Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Queen Pedauque" by Anatole France is a historical novel written in 1892. Set in early 18th-century France, it follows young Jacques Ménétrier, who works turning roasting spits in his father's shop until a learned abbot takes him as a student. Together, master and pupil enter the service of an eccentric alchemist obsessed with salamanders and sylphs. Their journey through a world of ancient texts, debauchery, and occult philosophy leads to unexpected consequences that will test their bond. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6571 ER -