Kuningatar Hanhenjalan ravintola

by Anatole France

"Kuningatar Hanhenjalan ravintola" by Anatole France is a historical novel written in 1892. Young Jacques Ménétrier begins as a spit-turner in his father's roast meat shop in early eighteenth-century France. His life transforms when Abbot Jérôme Coignard takes him as a student, teaching him Latin and Greek. Together they enter the service of an alchemist obsessed with salamanders and sylphs. Their pursuit of knowledge and happiness becomes entangled with debauchery, vengeance, and the charms of the beautiful Jahel.