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When Agathe-Sidonie is summoned to the Queen's side on the morning of the 14th, Versailles is a miniature universe, sparkling with every outward appearance of happiness and power, peopled with nobles of minutely calibrated rank, and run according to a hundred-year-old ritual called the Perfect Day. More importantly, it is a story of forgiveness: forgiveness made possible only by God’s faithfulness to Angela and her family. However, it is not only a story of tragedy and loss. Now exiled in Vienna, she looks back twenty-one years to the legendary opulence of Versailles and meticulously reconstructs July 14, 15, and 16 of 1789. Farewell, My Free Bird is a mother’s story of her daughter, Angela, and her life that was filled with turmoil before she was brutally murdered. It was once the job of Madame Agathe-Sidonie Laborde to read books aloud to Marie-Antoinette. Human translations with examples: le amor, buenos dias mi amor.

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